Looks like Russian isn't leaving until Georgia recognizes large chunks of its sovereign territory as independent:

Russia will withdraw its troops from the "buffer zone" it has created in Georgia when they are replaced by international peacekeepers and once the Georgian government has signed non-aggression pacts with the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Moscow's ambassador to London, Yuri Fedotov said today.

Allow me to introduce the New Russia*

Update: The U.S. has pledged 1 billion dollars in aid. It is dedicated to purely non-military purposes but, like with giving money to the homeless, any dollar they don't have to spend on rebuilding they can spend on the military. Russia is predictably belligerent.

Fedotov warned that any Nato attempts to rebuild Georgia's military after the conflict would be destabilising.

"If Nato now plans to rearm Tbilisi, to restore or even enhance its military potential, of course it will be very deplorable. And it would not help ... a political solution," he said.

* - Same as the Soviet Union but with 100% less idiological purity.

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