RFE/RL: What is the latest impact of the 2008 war, both for Georgia and the larger world? Daniel Fried: Russia attempted to intimidate Georgia through a war and give itself the ability to continue ...

Warfronts The Russo-Georgian War: How a Five-Day Conflict Redrew Europe’s Map Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: April 29, 2025 In August 2008, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of ...

He seized it by launching a war in Georgia in 2008, occupying territory that remains under Russian control to this day. Sadly for the world, that gambit worked: Most NATO members took a decisive ...

Stephen Jones, the director of Harvard University's Georgian studies program, told a Chatham House think tank event this week that the ruling party was "at war with Georgian society" even before ...

In August 2008, a brief war between Georgia and Russia resulted in the presence of Russian soldiers in Georgia’s separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and later led to Russia’s recognition ...

Khoperia remembers Russian war crimes in Abkhazia, which were very similar to those the Ukrainians have been subjected to in Bucha or Izyum. “There was a Georgian nurse, whose body we found ...

While Western countries have trumpeted the way Russia's war in Ukraine has strengthened solidarity and brought both Finland and Sweden into the NATO camp, once-aspiring member Georgia appears ...

As the film went on with its brutal yet creatively animated depictions of horrors of the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia, I was worried that these scenes were going to aggravate my friend's still-bleeding ...

Another Georgian fighter, Demetre Darchia, 22, was killed in the war in Ukraine, the Georgian Foreign Ministry confirmed to ...