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The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, “too many” bodies of Georgian soldiers killed in fighting in South Ossetia are now in  Shindisi, a village between Gori and Tskhinvali, a representative of the Georgian Orthodox Church said on August 16.

The FINANCIAL -- According to BBC Russian troops have entered Georgia from the breakaway region of Abkhazia, reaching the town of Senaki, officials from both Russia and Georgia say.

The FINANCIAL -- Since August 7, 2008 the Russian army has invaded Georgia’s sovereign territory, bombing its civilians and destroying its major infrastructure, causing catastrophic human and material losses; all those acts of war are committed under the fallacious pretext of protecting

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, Sea links between Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi and Russia's Sochi port have been cut, the deputy head of the Russian Black Sea port said on August 11.

The FINANCIAL -- Civil.ge and other Georgian website are no longer available for some countries including Georgia. The site stopped functioning since August 8, 2008.

The FINANCIAL -- Over thousands of IDPs (internally displaced persons) have fled to Rustavi, (city in the southeast of Georgia, in the province of Kvemo Kartli).

  The FINANCIAL — According to GPB, Matthew J. Bryza, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs is arriving to Georgia approximately at 17:00 PM on August 11.   Moreover, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt as well

The FINANCIAL -- Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb as well as Bernard Kouchner, Foreign Minister of France have left for Gori town soon after the meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

The FINANCIAL — According to UNIAN, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Monday signed a European Union-backed peace proposal that will be presented to Russia, a senior Georgian security official told AFP."President Saakashvili, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander

The FINANCIAL -- According to Civil Georgia, Georgian forces are continuing to reinforce and maintain defensive positions in the south of the South Ossetian conflict zone, despite heavy artillery fire, a Georgian Interior Ministry official has said.