From a post at the BBC News website dated August 6, 2009:

Georgia and Russia have stepped up a propaganda battle, each blaming the other for starting the 2008 war over South Ossetia, on the eve of the war’s one-year anniversary. Georgia has repeated its claim that its 2008 assault on South Ossetia was a response to a secret Russian invasion.

Russia has denied it was the first to move, and accused the Georgian government of "a pre-planned criminal act". Correspondents say harsh rhetoric has been flying and warn that claims from both sides should be treated with much caution. The conflict erupted on 7^th August 2008, as Georgia tried to retake control of its rebel region South Ossetia, following weeks of escalating clashes and tensions in the area as well as ongoing diplomatic friction between Moscow and Tbilisi...

 

From the October 11^th, 2009 broadcast of The CBS Evening News:

The government of the breakaway republic of South Ossetia today signed a mutual defense pact with Russia under which the Russians have been given the right to station airfields and other military facilities on South Ossetian territory. The agreement has drawn angry protests from the government of Georgia, which views the pact as blatant interference with Georgian efforts to reclaim control of South Ossetia, and sparked concern among European and U.S. diplomats, who fear that animosity between the Russian and Georgian governments over the agreement may become a catalyst for renewed armed conflict in the Ossetian region...

 

From the November 8^th, 2009 broadcast of BBC’s 9 O’Clock News:

The president of Georgia arrived in New York late this afternoon to make a personal appeal to the UN General Assembly to intervene on the Georgian government’s behalf against the growing Russian military presence in South Ossetia. In defiance of Georgian protests, Russia continues to maintain a mutual defense treaty with the breakaway republic and is helping the South Ossetian army to expand their own troop and weapons inventories...

 

From a commentary posted at the American conservative political website Townhall.com on January 16^th, 2010:

Once again, the Medvedev clique in Moscow has used its veto power in the UN Security Council to prevent anything meaningful from being done about the mess in South Ossetia. Do we need any further proof that the UN’s time is long past, or the UN membership roster is mostly a roll-call of sycophants sucking up to tyrants? Without the sanctions proposed last week by Great Britain(and endorsed by this author wholeheartedly), there’s not a snowball’s chance in you-know-where of the Russians doing the honorable thing and quitting their constant efforts to prop up the puppet regime in Tshkinvali....

 

From the Washington Post, March 8^th, 2010:

From the BBC News website two days later:

Tensions between the Russian Federation and the former Soviet republic of Georgia, which briefly erupted into armed conflict in August of 2008, are threatening to do so once again as the two countries trade allegations over a supposed Russian violation of Georgia’s airspace two days ago and the arrest earlier today of two Georgian nationals who the Russian foreign ministry accuses of aiding pro-Georgian extremists in South Ossetia...

 

From the New York Times, March 12^th, 2010:

From the March 15^th, 2010 broadcast of NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams:

The standoff between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia turned violent today when a car bomb exploded outside the Russian embassy in the capital city Tshkinvali late this afternoon, killing seven people and injuring fifty-eight. A pro-Georgian radical faction known as the Reunion Party, which seeks to restore the area to Georgian rule, claimed responsibility for the blast; Russian president Dmitry Medvedev angrily accused Georgian intelligence agents of aiding the bombers in their attack and has threatened to send Russian military forces into the region in retaliation for the bombing.

Medvedev’s administration is one of only four governments that officially recognize South Ossetia as an independent state....

 

From the March 18^th, 2010 Montreal Gazette:

RIOTERS ATTEMPT TO STORM RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN WARSAW

MEDVEDEV CHARGES POLISH GOVERNMENT WITH STIRRING UP

ANTI-RUSSIAN HOSTILITY

From the March 19^th, 2010 London Times:

From the March 21^st, 2010 broadcast of ABC’s World News Tonight:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is en route to Moscow tonight in an eleventh-hour effort to avert what some observers fear may be the inevitable outbreak of renewed armed conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway state of South Ossetia. The two countries have already gone to war once before over the South Ossetians’ claims to independence, and in recent weeks their respective foreign ministers have traded some harsh charges about alleged violations of each country’s airspace by the other...

From the March 24^th, 2010 broadcast of CBC News at Six:

The mood at the White House tonight is a somber one following word that Russian president Dimitri Medvedev has rejected U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s proposals for resolving the South Ossetian crisis. Clinton is scheduled to meet with the Canadian Secretary for Foreign Affairs tomorrow before flying home to Washington....

From the March 26^th, 2010 Washington Post:

From the March 27^th, 2010 New York Daily News:

From the April 2^nd, 2010 broadcast of Nine News(Australia):

Fears of a new armed conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway state of South Ossetia became grim reality today as Russian military forces launched attacks against Georgian army bases near the Ossetian border. In a statement issued shortly after the ground and air strikes commenced, Russian president Dimitri Medvedev claimed the attacks were a pre-emptive measure taken to forestall the danger of Georgian troops occupying South Ossetia; in response, the Georgian foreign ministry accused the Russian government of, in its words, "unprovoked aggression against the Georgian people" and said that the Georgian Land Forces would fight the Russians to the last man. Within the past few minutes we’ve received confirmation that two Georgian air force jets have been shot down southeast of the capital, Tbilisi...

 

From the April 7^th, 2010 Boston Globe:

RUSSIAN GROUND FORCES SAID TO MEET UNEXPECTEDLY HEAVY

RESISTANCE NEAR KHASHURI AND SURAMI

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