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by Stefan Forss

Stefan Forss is Lecturer at the Department of Strategic and Defence Studies at the National Defence University (Finland) 12.09.2008
Keywords: Putin, Georgia, Russia

A few Georgian battalions - trained to fight terrorists, not to manoeuvre against a powerful Russian army! - undertook a militarily deficient offensive against Tskhinvali in South Ossetia on August 8. The Russians replied promptly and forcefully. Heavy units from the 58th army and parts of other elite units that had been lying ready for attack near the South Ossetian border were deployed, totalling over 20,000 troops supported by navy and air force. After another front was opened in Abkhazia the Georgian army and its infrastructure were quickly crushed. After completion of the ethnic cleansing both breakaway states are now free of Georgians and Russia wants Saakashvili to be brought to justice. Read it all..

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Current’s Christof Putzel investigates a growing movement in Russia where neo-Nazi groups are brutally attacking immigrants and spreading their hate by posting violent videos online. Read it all..

First Russia tried to kill Georgia economicaly increasing 3 times on gas prices and blocking Georgian export.
Georgia, instead, established good relations with the west and started to prosper. Read it all..

The President of France declares that no Russian militant must be on the Georgian territory on October 15
The above- mentioned announcement was made by the President of France in the joint briefing held after his meeting with Mikheil Saakashvili. Read it all..

The occupation of Ukraine by Russia - 1650s
Russia - Crimea - 1783
Russia - Poland - 1795
Russia - Eastern Georgia - September 21, 1801; April 1802
Russia - Georgia (1810-1864)
Russia - Basarabia (part of Romania) - 1812
Mass murdering of 1 Million Caucasians by Russia - 1859-1880
Russia - Japan - 1905-1905
Russia -Poland - 1920
Russia - Azerbaijan - 1920
Russia - Armenia - 1920
Russia - Poland -1939
Russia - Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia - 1940
Russia (USSR) - Basarabia, Bucovina, Herta (parts of Romania) - 1940
Russia (USSR) - Finland - 1940
Russia (USSR) - Serpents Island (part of Romania) - 1948
Russia (USSR) - Hungary - 1956
Russia (USSR) - Czechoslovakia - 1968
Russia (USSR) - Afghanistan - 1979-1989
Russia - Bessarabia, Moldova, 1992
Russia - Georgia - 1919, 1920 (April-May), 1921, 1924, 1991-93
Russia - Georgia - August 2008

Who will be next?

Georgian People’s Artist Vakhtang Kikabidze refused “Friendship” order awarded by Russian President on 70th anniversary of singer on July 19.
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