I.Introduction

In 1990, Georgia voted to abolish the autonomy of South Ossetia, and by 1991 the ethnic antagonists were fighting. In 1992, Georgia and Russia signed a peace treaty and Russian troops began patrolling the South Ossetia border. That same year, Abkhazia declared its independence from Georgia and another war was fought; it ended in 1994 with a treaty between Russia and Georgia. Russian troops then began patrolling that enclave too. In August 8th, Georgia launched a surprise operation last week to seize control of South Ossetia. Russia sent it’s military into the breakaway republics and bombed Georgia proper. Many Western experts have predicted that Russia would stage some sort of military action since Mikheil Saakashvili was elected president of Georgia in 2004. As part of his platform, he said he wanted to reincorporate the enclaves into Georgia. Most experts agreed that Russia would respond with force if that happened. No one knows how far Russia is planning to go, though continued clashes suggest that its goal goes beyond just protecting the enclaves.

This News Report Assignment collected information about what both sides, especially Russia responded after that incident. The sources are various and mostly come from newspaper and online news. We spend times to watch, read and analyzed them to choose the pieces of news that fit our purpose. Since the work is not too much, dividing it to each group’s member was not easy. But we tried to make those shares to be equal. We keep in touch with each other by the internet, because we didn’t have much time in class, there were other things that needed to be concerned. The toughest part is summarizing the information and arranged them in a logical order. We chose to put the news and summaries in the order of the date. There were some discussion and argument during the process. It took us a lot of time just to solve and find a solution for each person ideas. However, our group still managed to complete this Assignment.There are 5 people in our group: