Russian military officials claim they have begun pulling back combat forces from the conflict zone with Georgia.
But reports say that Russian troops are still on the ground and are showing no sign of pulling out of Georgia. The White House has urged Russia to withdraw its troops without delay. Tensions are growing over Russia's plans to deploy a peacekeeping force that Georgian officials fear could turn into an open-ended occupation. The head of the provincial government in South Ossetia has called for a permanent Russian military presence in Seven Czechs leave Georgia, no Czech in area of fighting-official ...
Solzhenitsyn due to be laid to rest ... the region. Eduard Kokoity said that 90 percent of South Ossetia's inhabitants had Russian passports. He rejected a deployment of international observers to monitor the EU-sponsored peace plan. Meanwhile, the International Red Cross says South Ossetians displaced by Georgia's conflict with Russia have begun returning from the North Ossetian capital of Vladikavkaz. According to the UN refugee agency, the number of displaced people has reached more than 150-thousand.
(Deutsche Welle)
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