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The 2008 Russo-Georgian War [note 3] was a war between Russia together with the Russian-backed self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia against Georgia. The war took place in August following a diplomatic crisis between Russia and Georgia, both formerly constituent republics of the Soviet Union. The fighting took place in the strategically important South Caucasus region. It is ...
The Russo-Georgian War broke out in August 2008 and involved Georgia, Russian Federation, ... supported by Russia, declared war on Georgia.
2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis An international diplomatic crisis between Georgia and Russia began in 2008, when Russia announced that it would no longer participate in the Commonwealth of Independent States economic sanctions imposed on Abkhazia in 1996 and established direct relations with the separatist authorities in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The crisis was linked to the push for ...
The international reaction to the Russo-Georgian War covered many nations, non-governmental organisations and non-state actors.The conflict began in August 2008 in South Ossetia but spread elsewhere in Georgia.
On 11 August 2008, The New York Times noted Putin's strong personal enmity towards Georgian president Saakashvili. [475] On 11 August 2008, Robert Kagan wrote that the war was not a result of a "miscalculation" by Georgia, but "revanchist" Russia's attempt to respond to revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine.
Cyberattacks during the Russo-Georgian War. During the Russo-Georgian War, a series of cyberattacks swamped and disabled websites of numerous South Ossetian, Georgian, Russian and Azerbaijani organisations. The attacks were initiated three weeks before the shooting war began. [1]
8–12 August 2008[edit] On 8 August 2008, the Russian youth movements called on their supporters to wage an information war against the Georgian "regime" on the web-sites. [242] The staff of Gleb Pavlovsky 's Effective Policy Foundation flooded the Russian blogs with propaganda during the war.
Background of the Russo-Georgian War. Detailed map of the Caucasus region (1994), including locations of economically important energy and mineral resources: South Ossetia has reserves of lead and zinc, Abkhazia has coal, and Georgia has oil, gold, copper, manganese, and coal. This article describes the background of the Russo-Georgian War .