Georgia and Russia ?

Question

Are they at war?

What is happening?

Where does the US stand?

Answer 1

On 20th September 1990  South Ossetia declared its independence from Georgia. The first South Ossetia supreme power election was in December 9 1990. But Georgia acknowledged the election to be illegitimate and decreed to abolish sovereignty of the new unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia, and on the next day the Georgian government implemented the state of emergency on the territory of South Ossetia. On 6th January 1991 Georgia put its army on the territory of South Ossetia, activated the operations and started the blockade of the autonomy of South Ossetia. As result more than 10 thousand people left South Ossetia for North Ossetia and about 30 thousand Ossetians left Georgia. During the armed conflicts 1991-1992 about 300 Osetians disappeared without a trace, more than 40 thousand got status of refugee, and more than 100 Ossetian rural area were destroyed by Georgian army.

The armed conflicts were stopped when Boris Yeltsin and Eduard Shevardnadze signed the Dagomys agreements.

South Ossetia became an independent republic in January 1992 de facto, but Georgia could not let it go.

In 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili has became the president of Georgia, and the main subject-target of his presidential campaign has been South Ossetia. He has violated the Dagomys agreements.

Georgia vs. South Ossetia: roots of a 100-year conflict

http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/286...

On 8th August 2008 Georgia declared the war against South Ossetia.

Russia points to media bias in coverage of S.Ossetia conflict

CNN use footage of Tskhinvali ruins to cover Georgian report

American citizen telling the truth about Georgian invade in South Osetia  http://russianwomenshome.com/simplemachi...

Answer 2

Apparently so.

More than a decade ago, this region in Georgia called South Ossetia  declared independence but nobody recognized them (think of them as Georgia's "Confederacy").  The conflict has been frozen until now, when Georgia re-entered South Ossetia to get the region back in control.

Russia supports the separatist rebels and invaded to help them.  Russia wants to annex (take over) South Ossetia, in attempt to rebuild the empire they had during the Soviet Union.

The US wants the Russian troops to leave South Ossetia and everyone to cease-fire, meaning stop fighting.