The leadership of the United States in 2008 masterminded, in fact, a war between Georgia and South Ossetia," the expert believes. As Zharikhin noted, the electoral ambitions of Republican ...

In August 2008, Georgia attempted to recapture South Ossetia, which had fought a separatist war against Georgia in the 1990s. Russia poured troops in, ousting Georgian forces from South Ossetia ...

TASS/. The United National Movement party, which ruled in Georgia under former President Mikhail Saakashvili, started the war in South Ossetia in 2008 on order from abroad, Georgian Prime Minister ...

Russian occupation forces illegally detained two Georgian citizens near the village of Kvemo Nikozi in central Georgia’s Gori ...

Yet with 20 percent of Georgia’s territory still under de facto Russian control after a short war between the two countries in 2008, the shadow of Moscow’s military power looms large.

"Our aim is to unite people and to give them the feeling that it's possible to change something in this war," says Mr Katsarava. In early August 2008, Georgia attempted to recapture breakaway ...

after a brief Russia-Georgia war in 2008. Both separatist regions have relied on Moscow's subsidies and hosted Russian troops, but many Abkhazians have been reluctant to allow Russian investors to ...