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• Aug. 30: Georgian honor guard soldiers lower coffins into the ground at a funeral ceremony of Georgian soldiers killed during Georgian-Russian war in Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgia has severed diplomatic ties with Moscow to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory.
• Aug. 30: Anastasia Khaikashvili, holding a portrait of her missing son Shmagi, cries at a funeral ceremony of unknown Georgian soldiers killed during Georgian-Russian war in Tbilisi.
• Aug. 30: Relatives of Georgian officer Shalva Dolidze, killed during Georgian-Russian war, mourn at a funeral ceremony in Tbilisi.
• Aug. 30: Women cry at a funeral ceremony of Georgian soldiers killed during the Georgian-Russian war in Tbilisi. Georgia has severed diplomatic ties with Moscow, and its president cast the far-confrontation over his country's fate as "a fight between the civilized and the uncivilized worlds."
• Aug. 30: Stanislav Levanovich, 58, walks past his damaged house in Tskhinvali, regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia. A brief war broke out between Russia and Georgia following Georgia's assault on South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, on Aug. 7, 2008.
• Aug. 29: Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili visits the Black Sea port of Poti, Georgia. Pointedly visiting Poti, a Black Sea port still shadowed by Russian forces who have set up positions nearby, Saakashvili spoke about the lack of global support for Moscow's move to redraw the borders of his country.
• Aug. 30: Russian tanks drive through Tskhinvali, the regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, moving to the Russian border.
• Aug. 30: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and ARD correspondent Thomas Rot seen during an interview with Germany's ARD television in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will not be isolated over its conduct in Georgia . The Russian prime minister is also warning Europe not to the bidding of the United States.
• Aug. 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Tajikistan President Emomali Rakhmon, are seen, during their meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is appealing to the five other leaders of an Asian security alliance for unanimous support over recent events in Georgia.
• Aug. 29: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, foreground, lays a wreath, not seen, at a monument to National Unity and Revival in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
• Aug. 28: Georgian officials escort 12 released Georgian soldiers, on the Abkhazian-Georgian border. Russian forces turned over 12 Georgian soldiers on the border of one of the separatist provinces that are now under Russian control.
• Aug. 28: Russian peacekeepers photograph one of 12 Georgian soldiers before releasing him to Georgian officials, in Rukhi, on the Abkhazian-Georgian border.
• Aug. 28: Ossetian Londa Koblova looks out of her destroyed apartment in Tskhinvali, capital of the Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia.
• Aug. 28: An Ossetian woman, seen through a bullet hole in the gates of a house, walks in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia.
• Aug. 28: Georgian honor guard soldiers stand during a funeral ceremony of Georgian soldiers killed during Georgian-Russian war in Tbilisi, Georgia.
• Aug. 27: A former actress at a local theatre, Svetlana Tskhovrebova stands in her ruined flat in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recognized two Georgian rebel territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states, prompting harsh criticism from Western nations.
• Aug. 27: A kitten plays in a street in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia.
• Aug. 27: Children play in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia.
• Aug. 27: South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity speaks during a rally in Tskhinvali, capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia.
• Aug. 27: Georgian Eka Nozadze, whose husband was killed during the Georgian-Russian conflict, reacts in a refugee camp for displaced people from South Ossetia in Gori, Georgia.
• Aug. 27: Two girls sit in a tent in a refugee camp for displaced people from South Ossetia in Gori, Georgia.
• Aug. 26: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Premier Vladimir Putin attend the Security Council meeting in Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi.
• Aug. 26: Georgian refugees from surrounding villages, are seen at the central square in the town of Gori, Georgia.
• Aug. 26: A South Ossetian prepares to fire his weapon while riding in a bullet-ridden car in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia as they celebrate Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signing a decree recognizing the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
• Aug. 26: Russian peacekeepers sit atop their armored vehicle, in an undisclosed location in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia.
• Aug. 26: South Ossetian separatists fighters fire a Kalashnikovs and wave their South Ossetian flag, while riding in a car, in Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist-controlled territory of South Ossetia as local residents celebrate Medvedev's signing of the decree recognizing the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.