SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — It was a short warfare with long-lasting penalties. Sixteen years in the past this month, Russian forces invaded Georgia, in what some consultants described as the primary try to alter internationally acknowledged state borders by power in Europe since 1945.
Right now many analysts imagine the Russo-Georgian Conflict of 2008 was additionally the primary instance of Vladimir Putin’s coverage aimed toward restoring Moscow’s affect over the previous republics of the Soviet Union, a coverage that has been on full show in Ukraine.
