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10/6/08 Russia Says Georgia Tries to Provoke New Conflict

Oleysa Vartanyan and Ellen Barry, New York Times

As Russian peacekeepers dismantle key checkpoints outside the separatist enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russia accuses the Georgian government of “seeking to provoke new hostilities.”  Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, made a formal appeal to his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, sking the European Union to “take necessary measures to stabilize the situation in keeping with its commitments.” More>>
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10/2/08 US Crisis Clouds Aid to Georgia

Dan Catchpole, Freelance journalist, Tbilisi, Georgia

Journalist's Blog: Dateline Tbilisi

U.S. and Georgian officials are discussing how to dispense the $1 billion in assistance pledged by President Bush at a time when the U.S. financial crisis and ongoing talks of an unprecedented government bailout of the credit industry have some here wondering whether the United States will make good on its promise. More>>
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10/1/08 Russians Allow Observers into Buffer Zone

From Spiegel Online International

The European Union is hoping that its monitoring mission will persuade Russia to pull its troops out of Georgia by Oct. 10. The first day of the mission got off to a good start with observers gaining access to the buffer zone. More>>