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The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, [note 3] was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region.
In early August 2008, after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili sent troops into the rebellious province of South Ossetia, Russia came to its defense, beginning a five-day-long conflict that...
Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Russia invaded Georgia, and Russian troops still occupy 20% of the country. But the rest of Georgia continues to welcome Russians and Russian businesses, even...
Russia’s use of conventional and non-conventional coercive tactics aims to reverse Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic foreign policy aspirations and represents an existential national security threat for Tbilisi.
Russia invaded Georgia in 2008, and many of the war tactics are chillingly similar to what we're seeing in Ukraine now. Did Russia develop its "playbook" 14 years ago?
Weakened in Ukraine and its influence waning in the Caucasus since the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh in September, Russia is determined not to let Georgia slip from its grasp.
For the moment, Georgia’s best bet is to navigate between increasingly dangerous Russia and the West, which is gradually expanding eastward, but not quickly enough to engulf geographically distant Georgia before it will be threatened by Russia once again.