not too long ago (yesterday), equaled "the temporary security zone", which now equals "the security corridor" (permanent ?)

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.

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.

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.