Timeline of Russian Aggression in Georgia
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..
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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?
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From iReport
This article is aimed for people that don’t understand how the conflict between Georgia and Russia erupted. I know It is impossible to make most of the Russians change their minds they are being told that they “saved the day” and feel really happy and proud. But what was the reality of war.
WHO STARTED WHAT?
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