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...Teiran Bestayev, 50, a resident of the neighboring Ossetian village of Dmenisi is unrepentant. "Now we are over here and they are over there," he says, waving vaguely towards Gori, Georgia's second largest city, which lies just a few dozen miles to the south down the broad valley below. "They have Georgia and we have South Ossetia and that's how it should be." (Read: "One Year On, Could Russia and Georgia Fight Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After War, S. Ossetia More Dependent on Russia | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

...into South Ossetia, Georgia's Foreign Ministry on Monday accused Russia of setting up new border posts inside undisputed Georgian territory. Calling the move "extremely alarming," the Ministry said the incident - which allegedly happened on Sunday near the village of Kveshi, between the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali and Gori, Georgia's second largest city - was an "attempt by the Russian occupants to penetrate into the depth of Georgian territory." (See pictures of the war in Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Year On, Could Russia and Georgia Fight Another War? | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...such ominous consequences as changing a border by force. Plenty of passionate voices said as much after Russian troops rolled into Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia on Aug. 8. On the night of Aug. 12, a day when Russian planes dropped cluster bombs on the town of Gori, the Presidents of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine took the stage in front of the Georgian parliament building beside Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "Everyone who believes in democracy says today, 'I am Georgian!' " said Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. His Polish counterpart, Lech Kaczynski, railed against Russia: "Today Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: In Search Of Unity | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...facto ceasefire came into effect, to methodically destroy "Georgia's strategic infrastructure," says Smith. "They're knocking them back into the stone age." Throughout Georgian territory, Russian troops have been destroying armor and weaponry and occupying military bases. Bridges have been blown up and artillery torched. In Gori on Tuesday, a Russian soldier languidly stood guard at the gate of the main Georgian military compound, a burnt out vehicle blocking the road behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russians Are Coming...Or Going? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

...attempts to humiliate his government have weakened Saakashvili politically. Indeed, the occupation appears to have united Georgians. But in some areas under Russian control villagers are beginning to wonder whether muddling through in some kind of collaboration with the power on the ground is not preferable to war. In Gori, now largely abandoned after the Russian bombings, farmer Giorgi Chikladze says he hopes he can now sell his peaches to Russia , where he says he would get higher prices than in Tbilisi. In the old days when Georgia was still under Soviet rule, he says, his family sold its harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Russians Are Coming...Or Going? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

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