"Additional security measures" now equal
"the temporary security zone".
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Russia says to pull back Georgia force by Aug 22
REUTERS
Reuters North American News Service
Aug 19, 2008 11:50 EST
MOSCOW, Aug 19 (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that by Aug. 22 Russia will pull its troops in Georgia back to the positions set out in a French-brokered ceasefire agreement.
Medvedev told French leader Nicolas Sarkozy by telephone that "by 22 August... a part of the peacekeepers will be pulled back to the temporary security zone," the Kremlin said in a statement.
"The remaining contingent that was used to reinforce the peacekeepers will be pulled back to the territory of South Ossetia and to Russia," the Kremlin said.
http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=304671
"Additional security measures",
not too long ago (yesterday), equaled "the temporary security zone", which now equals "the security corridor" (permanent ?)
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NY Times
Russia Sends Mixed Signs on Pullout From Georgia
By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and ELLEN BARRY
Published: August 19, 2008
POTI, Georgia — Russia showed small signs of moving a few troops away from Georgia on Tuesday. But Russia retained its grip on the country, and Russian forces bound and blindfolded 21 Georgian soldiers at the Black Sea port of Poti, parading them with five seized Humvees belonging to Georgia’s backers — the United States......
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/wo...=1&oref=slogin
Now for the international military law aspects of the NYT article.
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from same source
A 1999 document written by the Joint Control Commission, an international body that monitored tensions in South Ossetia, the breakaway enclave over which hostilities between Russia and Georgia flared this month, gives peacekeepers access to a “security corridor” that extends about five miles in each direction from the enclave’s perimeter.
Under that document, the corridor reaches into Georgian-held territory, including portions of the country’s main east-west highway, and right through Karaleti.
Mr. Medvedev has said Russian peacekeepers will pull back from other Georgian territory but remain inside the security corridor.
These prior legal documents and agreements will keep coming out of the woodwork as the Russian FSB legal machine continues to fine tune its presentation.
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from same source
At the United Nations on Tuesday the Security Council considered a new, abbreviated resolution demanding that Russia withdraw all of its troops from Georgia.
But during the acrimonious session, Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, declared that his nation could not support a resolution that did not endorse all six points of the cease-fire agreement, which he said should be included “verbatim.”
As well he should argue “verbatim”, since the cease-fire agreement favors his country.
Hungary 1956 Backgrounder
Short history and timeline
http://www.freedomfighter56.com/en_history.html
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The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Created and maintained by the European Division Collections and Services Directorate
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This page provides links to sites commemorating the event or providing resources for research.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/...s/hu-1956.html
Collections of the 1956 Digital Archive - In Depth
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Donald and Vera Blinken Collection - Hungarian Refugee Interviews from 1957 to 1958More than 30,000 pages of several hundred in-depth interviews, together with 3,000 pages of subject files.
Zwack CollectionSpecial collection of newspaper clippings on 1956.
National Security Archive Collection - declassified intelligence documents on 1956
CIA daily briefings and weekly analyses, October-December 1956.
This collection comprises the daily briefings and weekly summaries prepared by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) during the 1956 revolution. These top secret documents were made accessible between 2001 and 2005 as a result of the repeated efforts of the civil organization called National Security Archive
RFE/RL Collection - Media CoverageNewspaper clippings and press releases relating to Refugee issues from 1956 to 1967.
RFE/RL Collection - Background ReportsBackground Reports written on Hungary by the Research Institute of RFE/RL from 1954 to 1989.
RFE/RL Collection - Evaluation Information ItemsSelected documents from the Evaluation Information. Items written by RFE field bureaus on Hungarian Refugee issues from 1952 to 1971.
1956 OSA Audiovisual Collection - 69 films and film excerptsDocumentaries, fiction and propaganda films, reports and newsreels.
Hoover Institution Archives - Audience Opinion Surveys by RFE/RLFrom the Archives of the Hoover Institution.
OSA Reference Information Paper on 1956A thematic guide prepared by archivists at OSA.
Selected Online Collections
http://www.osa.ceu.hu/digitalarchive/#nsa
To that I'd add that the views I've seen and
what I've read about the Russian army -- all their services -- in this operation are pretty far from awe inspiring. Lot of tactical errors on view, foot deployment and weapons handling sloppy as all get out, obviously not the greatest morale in the world, lot of mechanical and maintenance problems and a lot of older equipment -- with few antennae.
I didn't worry much about them 30-40 years ago when I was supposed to, I worry less now than I did then.