News Source: EU Observer
| about 1 month ago
Lithuanian foreign minister Vyguadas Usackas has said the EU made a mistake in setting up the enquiry into the Georgia war, amid Russian claims that the investigation has proved it right. "If I had been in the [EU] Council at the time, I would not...
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
An independent inquiry ordered by the European Union has concluded that Georgia violated international law and triggered last year's war with Russia by attacking the breakaway region of South Ossetia. In a report released Wednesday that could...
News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 month ago
Was a Russian invasion of the breakaway province of South Ossetia already under way on the night of 7 August when Georgia opened fire? Had Russian tank columns passed through the strategic Roki tunnel, between North and South Ossetia, as Tbilisi...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
The EU's long-awaited report on the Russia-Georgia war has produced a nuanced verdict, but one that finds Georgia at least as culpable as Russia, and probably more so. Specifically, it concludes that the war was started by a Georgian attack in breach...
News Source: The independent
| about 1 month ago
Georgian soldiers take cover in the town of Gori during the conflict of August 2008 The first authoritative study of the war over South Ossetia has concluded that Georgia started the conflict with Russia with an attack that was in violation of...
News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| about 1 month ago
For five days in 2008, Russia and Georgia were at war over the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and ever since both sides have blamed each other for starting the conflict. Now an investigation commissioned by the European Union has...