Document by the Government of Georgia - 21 september 2008 - Tbilisi

The Government of Georgia invites the international community and journalists to verify the information laid out in the timeline below.

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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..

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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As the actual ground combat between Russia and the former Soviet Republic of Georgia grinds to a halt, security and Web experts have begun to focus on what might have been a secret third front in the conflict: the Internet. With numerous Georgian government Web sites defaced or shut down, the virtual attacks that preceded the actual invasion may go down in history as the first war in cyberspace.Whether or not these attacks represent the Russian military acting against the Georgian government by proxy or ambitious nationalist hackers seizing an opportunity, these attacks clearly indicate that the Internet has become a battlefield. Read it all..

CNN’s Robin Oakley offers context and analysis of the geopolitical stakes with Russia and Georgia.
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Wall Street Journal Europe
August 12, 2008

Wait a minute, isn’t this the 21st? Chronologically, it is. But last Friday, Russia — like the mad scientist Emmett Brown in “Back to the Future” — thrust us backward by about 150 years in the Caucasus: into the age of imperialism and geopolitics, resource wars and spheres of influence.

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