South Ossetia
Remembering Alexander Klimchuk
Matthew Collin, a foreign correspondent in the Caucasus region, is heading out of Tbilisi. He takes time out in today’s Guardian to reflect upon his adopted home and the death of his friend, the journalist Alexander Klimchuk, Last autumn, Klimchuk and I worked together in South Ossetia, covering a government-sponsored Boney M concert in a […]
Into South Ossetia with Yuri Kozyrev
TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev travels with Russian units through South Ossetia. Click the image above to see a photgallery of recent images.
Analysing Ossetia
Sean’s Russia blog offers a very interesting analysis of the western media’s interpretation of the situation in South Ossetia and Georgia, Every small Russian action is instantly viewed as part of a larger design. The latest evidence that sparked fears of an assault on Tbilisi? A Russian convoy that was heading toward the Georgian capital […]
Russian bombs kill journalist in Gori
From AP, A Dutch television journalist was killed overnight when Russian warplanes bombed the central Georgian city of Gori. The television news station RTL reported on its Web site that its cameraman Stan Storimans, 39, was killed and correspondent Jeroen Akkermans was wounded in the leg in the attack. RTL said, in all, five people […]
Journalists killed in South Ossetia
A Moscow radio station reports two journalists have been killed in Tskhinvali, the capital of the embattled region of South Ossetia. The International Herald Tribune has more, The station, Ekho Moskvy, cited a Russian Newsweek magazine correspondent Orkhan Dzhemal as saying that both went into the separatist Georgian province from the Georgian side and were […]
How do you track Russian language news from South Ossetia without reading Russian?
Here’s one way to try and follow the South Ossetia story in Russian if you can’t read Russian. I touch on these methods when I teach the Track Breaking News Online courses each month in London. We’ll do all this by using a combination of online translation tools and RSS feeds. Firstly, find a number […]
Monitoring South Ossetia
Veronica Khokhlova at Global Voices does a good job rounding up and translating the word from the streets of Georgia including this comment from Russian journalist Mikhail Romanov in a hotel basement in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, The city is under heavy howitzer and mortar fire. An endless cannonade. I’ve seen many wounded […]
Russian troops attack South Ossetia
[video:youtube:E4AD6mOZm9I] Russian troops head in the direction of Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia’s separatist South Ossetia region. This follows “a massive attack” by Georgian troops to regain control of breakaway region where officials said at least 15 people were killed and an unspecified number of people wounded. A convoy of Russian tanks and troops is […]
Freedom for South Ossetia
South Ossetia wants to break free, she’s wanted to break from the shackles of Georgia ever since the Soviet Empire imploded and well… we all know the rest, don’t we? The wannabe South Ossetians have declared an Independence day and it sounds like an awful lorra fun, The parade made its way noisily down Stalin […]