Eleven years have passed since the short Georgian-Russian war started on August 7-8 in 2008. As every discussion on who started the war generally is, the Georgian-Russian one too is about finding moral grounds for military actions which both sides took at the time.
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Emil Avdaliani: Did Russia really win in the 2008 August war?
Relatives of Georgia's servicemen killed during the 2008 brief war with Russia over control of South Ossetia mourn during a ceremony on the 11th anniversary of the conflict at the memorial cemetery in Tbilisi on August 8, 2019.
