Tskhinvali, Georgia News

Disagreements over who should chair meetings in frames of incident prevention mechanisms is one of the reasons of Tskhinvalia s refusal to participate in these talks, Boris Chochiev, the breakaway South Ossetiaa s chief negotiator, said.

The meeting between opposition leaders Levan Gachechiladze and David Gamkrelidze and former Interior Minister Kakha Targamadze in Berlin was the past weeka s main media story.

Abkhaz and South Ossetian separatist regimes are beginning large-scale military exercises in the two breakaway regions.

Georgian and Abkhaz sides will meet in frames of incident prevention mechanisms in Gali on July 14, according to the agreement reached by the sides during the talks in Geneva on Wednesday.

Negotiators from Georgia, Russia, United States, as well as from breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia will meet for the sixth round of talks in Geneva on July 1. Talks, formally referred as a oeinternational discussions on security and stabilitya , are mediated by EU, OSCE and UN.

Gennady Onishchenko, Russia's chief sanitary inspector, defended his decision to accept citizenship in another country Thursday, although he admitted that it was against Russian law for government officials to have double nationality.

This further dissipates the already feeble international presence in the Abkhazian conflict zone and puts the fate of the ethnic Georgian population in Gali in the balance.

Georgia lashed out at Russia on Tuesday for vetoing a resolution to extend U.N. monitors' mandate in breakaway Abkhazia, saying Moscow did not want "witnesses" in the region.

Tagliavinia s Mission Representatives Meet with Tskhivnali Regime Delegation of Independent International Fact-finding mission on the conflict in Georgia met with representatives of Tskhinvali puppet mode.

There are about 20 armed Ossetians in the village of Kardzmani bordering Sachkhere region village Perevi.

South Ossetian leader must improve living conditions for locals in wake of election or risk support switching to opposition, warn analysts.

TSKHINVALI : More than 70 observers will monitor Sunday's parliamentary elections in South Ossetia, the former Georgian republic's foreign minister said Saturday.

CLAIMING VICTORY: South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity at a news conference in Tskhinvali, June 1 2009.

Ethnic Georgians living in South Ossetia's contested Akhalgori District state that South Ossetian officials required them to take South Ossetian identification papers and vote in the breakaway region's May 31 legislative elections, Georgian media reported.

Davit Bakradze a ' Ita TMs Impossible to Consider Tskhinvali Puppet Mode Elections as Legitimate Chairperson of parliament Davit Bakradze says that it is impossible to consider Tskhinvali puppet regime elections as legitimate.

TSKHINVALI, Georgia: A party strongly supportive of the leader of Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia won parliamentary elections, final results showed.

The Russian-backed rebel region of South Ossetia voted in a parliamentary election on Sunday that the opposition say will be used by the local separatist leader to strengthen his grip on power.

MFA of Georgia commenets on UN Security Council's behind the closed door consultations on Georgia.

In the Moscow Times , Yulia Latynina dissects the failed Georgian coup . Excerpt: Before the recent events in Georgia unfolded, we heard warnings all across the Internet that Georgian opposition would take to the streets and that Saakashvili's regime would fall on April 9. Meanwhile, Russia once again mobilized its forces along the South Ossetian ...

"I have never done anything bad to Georgians and I am ashamed of my people - s behaviour." Assistant Editor of popular newspaper Saversheno Sekretno Leonid Velekhov is a frequent visitor to Georgia .