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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.
The Georgian Civil War began, [112]: 54 [60] in which Russia supported both Gamsakhurdia and his opposition. [112]: 58. Since Russian military saw the new Georgian leader Eduard Shevardnadze, who came to Georgia in 1992, as responsible for the result of the Cold War, they were aiding his enemies.
Prisoners of war were swapped by Russia and Georgia that day. [28] August 22 - Russia withdrew troops from undisputed Georgia by the evening to South Ossetia and Georgia's principal east-west highway was now free for transit. [29]
8–12 August 2008. On 8 August 2008, the Russian youth movements called on their supporters to wage an information war against the Georgian "regime" on the web-sites. [242] The staff of Gleb Pavlovsky 's Effective Policy Foundation flooded the Russian blogs with propaganda during the war.
The 2008 war between Russia and Georgia created controversy, with both sides blaming each other for starting the war.. Although the Russian authorities have claimed that it was Georgia that started the war by launching an unprovoked attack on the separatist-controlled city of Tskhinvali (located within Georgia's internationally recognised borders) and the Russian Armed Forces only responded to ...
Eduard Kokoity. Vasily Lunev. The prelude to the Russo-Georgian War is the series of events, including diplomatic tensions, clashes, and skirmishes, that directly preceded the August 2008 war between Georgia and the Russian Federation. Though tensions had existed between the two countries for years and more intensively since the Rose Revolution ...
The Russo-Georgian War had a huge humanitarian impact on the lives of civilians. In the aftermath of the war, ethnic Georgians were expelled from South Ossetia,Georgia and most of the Georgian villages were razed. Russo-Georgian War. Main topics. Background.
On 19 September 2008, Hryhoriy Omelchenko, member of Verkhovna Rada from Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, declared that Russia attacked Georgia without a declaration of war and occupied the Georgian territories. He said that: "Therefore, according to international legal norms, Russian Federation is an aggressor, invader and occupant."