Worst pullout ever
It seems increasingly clear that Russian troops are not, in fact, pulling all the way out of Georgia: Russian units said they had orders only to fall back as far as South Ossetia and some platoons were still dug in near roads outside Gori, while Russian troops bearing new peacekeeping badges dominated the main east-west ...
It seems increasingly clear that Russian troops are not, in fact, pulling all the way out of Georgia:
It seems increasingly clear that Russian troops are not, in fact, pulling all the way out of Georgia:
Russian units said they had orders only to fall back as far as South Ossetia and some platoons were still dug in near roads outside Gori, while Russian troops bearing new peacekeeping badges dominated the main east-west highway, a key trading artery. A senior Russian official said Russian military checkpoints ringing South Ossetia would be permanent.
Moreover, it seems the Russian high command hasn’t put much thought into the whole public diplomacy thing. Here are two more shots of Russian peacekeepers flipping Getty photographer Uriel Sinai the bird:
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