Approximately thousand inhabitants of Poti organized today protest action against presence of the Russian militarians near the Georgian port. As correspondent of Reuters informs, protesting cry out angry slogans and swing the Georgian flags. The Russian militarians who are engaged in construction of a post near Poti answer local residents that they are there with peace-making mission. The deputy chief of the Joint Staff of Armed forces of Russia general - colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn declared that the Russian divisions would patrol Georgian port Poti. "Patrolling is a form registered in the international agreement. Poti isn't included into a safety zone. But it does not mean that we shall sit behind a fence and look how they are driving "Hammers" there, - Nogovitsyn said. There are no Russian military men in the Georgian port Poti, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov declared to the journalists on August, 13th.

Widely advertised "Medvede's hardness" at signing of Sarkozi's plan turns to be latent retreat. Ostensibly coordinated formulation about the status of both "unrecognized" republics disappeared from the plan. That is, the Kremlin is afraid to recognize their independence itself - and doesn't want to put a question about it at a world level. Meanwhile, without recognition of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia military victory over Georgia loses sense. Moscow exposes itself as aggressor in this case.