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An AP reporter saw dozens of trucks and armored vehicles leaving Gori, roaring southeast. Soldiers waved at journalists and one soldier jokingly shouted to a photographer: "Come with us, beauty, we're going to Tbilisi!" But the convoy turned north and left the highway about an hour's drive from the Georgian capital, and set up camp a mile off the road. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russian troops were near Gori to secure weapons left behind by the Georgians. To the west, Russian-backed Abkhazian separatists pushed Georgian troops out of Abkhazia and even moved into Georgian territory itself, defiantly planting...

The situation, which is currently unfolding in South Ossetia, shows that the Georgian army follows a meticulously developed plan. However, it was not Georgia, but the Pentagon that schemed out the operation to conquer the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia 13 years ago. The Pentagon originally tested its plan on the Republic of Serbian Krajina which existed on Croatia’s territory from 1991 to 1995. Thousands of civilians were killed and numerous ethnic cleansings were held as a result of those operations. The Russian citizens residing on the territory of South Ossetia may face the same fate in the event Moscow...

January 27, 2007 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused Georgia of a "provocation" in the case of a Russian citizen who was arrested and imprisoned in Georgia after allegedly trying to sell 100 grams of highly enriched uranium. Relations between Tbilisi and Moscow are deeply strained over the fate of two regions of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, that are seeking independence or incorporation into Russia. Officials say the Russian man was arrested in 2006 in a sting operation by Georgian agents, but that the case was not publicized by Georgia until this week. Lavrov's criticism of Tbilisi...