- Israel Has $1 Billion Invested in Georgia
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- 10 Aug 2008
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- The Israeli-Georgia connection is estimated to be
worth $1 billion, according to a former Georgian ambassador to Israel.
The Jewish state and private investors have provided military assistance
and advisors to Georgia, where pipelines pump oil destined for Israel.
A new pipeline is being built to bypass Russian territory. The Ministry
of Foreign Affairs said that Israeli companies in Georgia have begun evacuating
their staff and that Israeli tourists are leaving for home.
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- Peacekeepers say Georgian forces shelling apartments
in S. Ossetia
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- 10 Aug 2008
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- Russian peacekeepers in Georgia's breakaway republic
of South Ossetia said on Sunday that Georgian forces remain in the region,
and are shelling apartment blocks in the capital. Georgian Interior Ministry
spokesman Shota Utiashvili earlier said Georgian forces had fully withdrawn
from the separatist province.
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- Reports
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- Russia sinks Georgian ship trying to attack Russian navy ships
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- 10 Aug 2008
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- Russian news agencies say the Defense Ministry claims
to have sunk a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian
navy ships in the Black Sea. The Defense Ministry refused to comment on
the Sunday reports to The Associated Press and Georgian officials could
not immediately be reached. If confirmed, the incident could mark a serious
escalation of the fighting that has raged between Russia and Georgia over
the separatist Georgian province of South Ossetia.
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- U.S.: Russia trying to topple Georgian government Oh.
Would that be anything like toppling Iraqi and Afghan governments?
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- 10 Aug 2008
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- The United States on Sunday accused Russia of trying
to overthrow the government of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where
Russian troops have been battling Georgian forces over the breakaway territory
of South Ossetia. At an emergency session of the United Nations' Security
Council, the U.S. alleged Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili
"must go."
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