August 7- August 13 Timeline


News stories as reported by the website RussiaToday from August 7 thru August 13, 2008.
I am not necessarily endorsing the web site, but it ain't FOX.



August 7th

‘Georgian snipers are attacking us’ - Ossetian official
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28561

Georgia and South Ossetia exchange fire
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28571

Georgian tanks head for South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28601

Georgia shells its breakaway republic
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28607

Sochi blast could be pre-planned attack
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28599

Georgia and South Ossetia announce ceasefire
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28621

August 8

Georgia resumes bombardment of South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28629

Georgia begins war to retake South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28640

Russian peacekeepers confirmed killed in Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28656

Russian deaths will not be tolerated - Medvedev
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28666

Georgia says it controls most of South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28652

Russia's FM comments on a day of violence in South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28674

Experts disagree over Georgia-Ossetia conflict
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28676

South Ossetian bloodshed claims hundreds of lives
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28668

Time line: Georgia-Ossetia armed conflict, August 8
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28664

Shelling of South Ossetia capital stopped
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28686

Region at war
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28690

UN inaction fuels military conflict - Russia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28688

NATO encouraged Georgia – Russian envoy
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28660

Georgian president compared to Hitler
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28694

August 9

Second emergency UN meeting ends without deal
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28700

General briefs media on South Ossetia operation
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28702

Russia denies bombing Georgian cities
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28704

Bush says fighting must stop
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28710

War victim trapped in basement with son’s body
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28708

Georgia resumes shelling the South Ossetian capital
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28698

We're obliged to keep the peace - Russia's FM
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28728

South Ossetian capital completely destroyed
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28730

The Georgian war – minute by minute, August 9
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28770

Putin to take care of South Ossetian refugees
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28720

Ossetians and Abkhazians protest near US embassy in Moscow
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28734

Georgia-South Ossetia conflict affects neighbouring countries
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28736

No western cameras in South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28738

Third UN war meeting ends in failure
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28740

Putin accuses Georgia of genocide
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28744

August 10

Abkhazia joins conflict
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28706

Death toll in South Ossetia reaches 2,000
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28732

Evacuated kids fear for their parents’ lives
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28753

Delegation goes to Georgia to broker ceasefire
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28755

Russia's Defence ministry spokesman press-conference
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28762

Shelled city is living hell
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28757

Did mercenaries help Georgia?
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28765

US partly to blame – ex Georgian FM
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28742

Georgia is guilty of genocide - Medvedev
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28777

Hundreds of volunteers head to North Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28783

Israel blocks arms sales to Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28500

It's America's fault - US citizen in the conflict zone
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28788

The Georgian war – minute by minute, August 10
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28772

Russian journalists beaten up in Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28775

Ossetian mother tells of miraculous escape
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28785

Abkhazia prepares for conflict
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28779

Georgia vs. South Ossetia: roots of a 100-year conflict
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28654

Georgia vs. South Ossetia: a story of genocide
http://www.russiatoday.ru/features/news/28792

South Ossetia conflict - day three
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28794

Russia sinks Georgian boat after attack
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28759

Russia sends humanitarian aid to South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28796

Violence continues despite ceasefire - reports
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28749

We will push Georgians out of Kodori Gorge - Abkhazian president
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28798

August 11

Residents flee war zone in their thousands
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28800

Revealed: the brutal reality of war
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28802

'Bombed' Tblisi airport welcomes foreign ministers
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28806

Georgia to drown ruined city – South Ossetia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28810

Russia suspends sea and postal links with Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28814

Daily Russian military briefing – August 11
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28816

US hampering Russian peace efforts – Putin
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28824

Russian Foreign Ministry’s press-conference
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28826

US sends more arms to Georgia – Israeli media
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28832

Talks possible only after Georgians pull out - Russia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28790

The Georgian war minute by minute - August 11
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28804

Ossetian refugees risk lives to bring and bury their dead
http://www.russiatoday.ru/features/news/28848

European mediators’ head visits refugee camp
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28850

‘Major part’ of peace mission completed – Medvedev
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28822

Vitaly Churkin’s media briefing after the UN Security Council meeting
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28852

Russian media suppressed in Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28854

South Ossetia: four days under Georgia’s attack
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28856

Peacekeepers in Abkhazia: mission to prevent tragedy
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28858

Georgian troops fire at refugees
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28838

August 12

Moscow’s Georgians and Ossetians united in misery
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28862

Background to conflict: independent streak of breakaway republics
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28864

Russian troops do not plan to advance on Tbilisi - Moscow
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28829

Civilians perish as Georgian troops torch church
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28872

Russia's Foreign Minister press-conference
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28876

CNN blamed for using misleading war video
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28880

U.S. presidential hopefuls react to Caucasus crisis
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28868

RT attacked
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28835

Black Sea resort gives shelter to 300
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28890

Revealed: how U.S. funds Georgian arms
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28892

Fleeing from violence: more refugees to cross into Russia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28874

Georgia quits CIS as Medvedev orders end to military operation
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28870

Roadmap for Georgian peace drafted in Moscow
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28894

Georgian spy ring busted - FSB
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28898

Georgia quits CIS as Medvedev orders end to military operation
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28900

War of words over South Ossetia resumes at the UN
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28846

U.S. blocks Russia-NATO Council meeting
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28902

Georgian troops squeezed out of Kodori Gorge
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28910

Saakashvili loses presence of mind
http://www.russiatoday.ru/features/news/28883

The Georgian war minute by minute - August 12
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28860

Ceasefire gets mixed reactions
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28905

Ossetia’s severely injured being treated in Moscow
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28914

Saakashvili's personal weapon: the media
http://www.russiatoday.ru/features/news/28918

Ceasefire reached
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28896

August 13

Kosovo raises Georgian breakaway republics’ hopes
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28921

Captured map shows Georgia planned to invade Abkhazia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28931

Russia is not aggressor - US politician
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28933

Stability rests on deciding Abkhazia, South Ossetia status - Lavrov
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28935

Amazing rescue of baby born on night of attacks
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28937

EU mediating peace in Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28941

The Georgian war minute by minute - August 13
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28927

Russian troops not heading to Tbilisi - Russia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28947

EU foreign ministers to send observers to Georgia
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28943

Ceasefire gives way to PR war
http://www.russiatoday.ru/news/news/28955




Posted: Fri - August 15, 2008 at 11:49 PM            

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