The five-day war claimed more than 1,000 lives. On August 26, 2008 Russia recognized South Ossetia’s independence. The republic’s leadership and members of the public on Tuesday afternoon ...

On August 1, 2008, after two months of continuous Georgian-South Ossetian fighting; the South Ossetia war between Georgia, Russia, South Ossetia, and Abkhazia began. On August 8, following several ...

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 ...

Indeed, South Ossetia remains a bigger concern ... Bush and President Saakashvili did not prevent war between Russia and Georgia in 2008, and the United States under President Barack Obama has ...

Kobakhidze wrote. Russia's occupation of South Ossetia and Abkhazia began during the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008. After a brief but intense conflict, Russia recognized the "independence ...

Georgia, seeking to resolve its territorial conflict with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, is coming to the realization that this does not serve the interests o ...

Tense relations with Russia after the 2003 "Rose Revolution" were further exacerbated by Moscow's support for the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, leading to a brief war in 2008.