August 12, 2008 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – Aug 12, 2008

120808.jpgTODAY: Georgian troops leave Gori; Russian troops move deeper into Georgia; Saakashvili caught in air raid; both sides accuse each other of cyberwarfare. Bush says Moscow wants to overthrow Georgian government; Putin criticizes US interference; Europe, NATO, UN push to end conflict. Russian troops have gone deeper into Georgia, seizing a military base in Senaki, and the Georgian army has fled Gori in “disarray”, with President Mikheil Saakashvili caught in an air raid on the town yesterday. “There is undoubtedly a strong punitive streak to Russian bombing and shelling 24 hours after Georgian forces tried to disengage, particularly in Gori.” Georgia has accused the Russian military of blocking a central highway linking east and west Georgia. Russia has sent a convoy of humanitarian aid into South Ossetia, where “something approaching anti-Western hysteria” is spreading. Dmitry Medvedev suggested that the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe – which Russia has supposedly been trying discredit – send a mission into South Ossetia. Both Georgia and Russia have accused the other of disabling Internet sites in a bid to disrupt electronic communications.