(22 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
Igoeti
1. Tracking shot of Russian military vehicles
2. Various of Russian tank with Russian flag on top driving past
3. Various of Russian military vehicles heading north
Kaspi
4. Wide of Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) moving under bridge
Igoeti
5. Various of Igoeti checkpoint with Georgian soldiers on one side and Russian APC's crossing checkpoint
6. Mid of Russian soldiers removing stones which marked a checkpoint
7. Russian soldiers on top of APC waving as they pass
Road between Gori and South Ossetia
8. Wide of Russian military vehicle and soldiers
9. Wide of helicopter in sky
10. Various of Russian military vehicles on road moving towards South Ossetia
11. Wide of man with donkey
Gori
12. Wide of Russian tanks at a checkpoint
13. Wide of solider checking vehicle
14. People walking through street carrying bags
15. Bus carrying displaced Georgians from near Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, transported to Gori by Russian forces
16. Close of man sitting in bus window
17. Mid of woman taking down names of those inside bus
18. Close-up of man on bus
19. Medical official helping elderly man step out of bus
20. Various of two displaced men eating bread
STORYLINE:
Waves of hulking Russian military convoys rolled out of positions in Georgia on Friday - leaving Senaki, Gori and Igoeti - as Russia tried to fulfil at least part of President Dmitry Medvedev's promise to withdraw forces from its small
southern neighbour.
In western Georgia, a column of 83 tanks, APCs and trucks hauling artillery was moving away from the Senaki military
base and toward the border of the breakaway Abkhazia region on Friday afternoon.
Georgian police said the vehicles came from the base, which has been under Russian control for over a week.
AP Television on Friday filmed Russian military vehicles heading north from Igoeti and the town of Kaspi, 25 miles (40 kilometres) west of the capital Tbilisi.
In central Georgia, at least 40 Russian military vehicles left the strategic city of Gori, heading north toward Russia.
Gori straddles the country's main east-west highway south of South Ossetia, the separatist region at the heart of the fighting.
An AP reporter in Igoeti, meanwhile, confirmed that Russian forces had pulled up from their former checkpoints around the crossroads village.
Igoeti, on the road between Gori and the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, had been the Russian's closest position to the Georgian capital.
Medvedev had promised to have his troops out of Georgia by Friday - but a top Russian general amended that prediction,
saying it could take at least 10 days before the bulk of Russian troops and hardware have withdrawn.
Also on Friday, AP Television filmed Russian troops transporting displaced people from Tskhinvali, South Ossetia to Gori, where Russian soldiers manned checkpoints.
Many of the displaced were badly in need of food and water.
Under the Eu-brokered cease-fire, Russian forces are to pull back to positions they held before intense fighting broke out August 7 in South Ossetia, which has close ties to Russia.
The UN estimates 158-thousand people have fled their homes since the conflict began.
The short but intense war on Russia's southern border has deeply strained relations between Russia and the West.
Russia has frozen its military cooperation with NATO, Moscow's Cold War foe, underscoring a growing division in Europe.
Georgia has wanted to join NATO, a move that angered Russia.
The warfare began August 8 when Georgia launched a barrage targeting South Ossetia, which claims independence and has
Russian support.

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