Georgia....Today's in Pictures

Georgia....Today's in Pictures August 24, 2008 NSI News Source Info Russia declared its complete withdrawal from Georgia, but France and the United States said Russia had not gone far enough. A column of Russian troops moved from Tskhinvali toward Russia near the village of Dzhava, South Ossetia. Russian soldiers rode an armored personnel carrier, near Igoeti, on the road from Tbilisi to Gori, Georgia. Despite a pledge by Moscow to completely withdraw from Georgia by Friday, Russian units said they had orders to fall back only 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. Women in the Black Sea port of Sevastopol, Ukraine, greeted the first Russian navy ship to return from Georgia. As Russian tanks and troops swept along main highways out of Georgia on Friday, Georgian police officers waited for a road to be reopened near Gori. While Russia pulled back from most of what it considers to be Georgian territory, and quit the main cities it had occupied, it is likely to maintain a longterm presence in the disputed enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and control of the country's main roads.