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Situation in Georgia before the 2008 war. On 16 April 2008, official ties between the Russian authorities and the separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia were sanctioned by an order of Russian president Vladimir Putin. The separatist-authored legislative documents and the separatist-accredited bodies were also recognised. [105]
In November 2008, Georgia called on the European Union to conduct an independent inquiry who was to blame for the conflict. [124] An independent, international fact-finding mission headed by Swiss diplomat Heidi Tagliavini was established by the EU to determine the causes of the war.
Georgia welcomed the decision and said: "The decision to accept that we are going forward to an adhesion to NATO was taken and we consider this is a historic success". [307] The war in August 2008 was a blow to Georgia's NATO aspirations and countries in western Europe were more reluctant to accept Georgia. [286] [308] [309] [310] [311]
Though tensions had existed between Georgia and Russia for years and more intensively since the Rose Revolution, the diplomatic crisis increased significantly in the spring of 2008, namely after Western powers recognized the independence of Kosovo in February and following Georgian attempts to gain a NATO Membership Action Plan at the 2008 Bucharest Summit; and while the eventual war saw a ...
Events prior to August 2008 are described in 2008 Russo-Georgian diplomatic crisis.. Tensions began escalating in 2008 since Kosovo declared its independence, but the definitive trigger was a bombing on the road near Tskhinvali on 1 August, which wounded Georgian police officers.
An EU-commissioned report published in 2009 said that Georgia triggered the war when it attacked South Ossetia's Tskhinvali with heavy artillery on the night of Aug. 7 to Aug. 8, 2008.
Since Russia won a five-day war against Georgia in 2008, the two countries have had no diplomatic relations. However, relations between Tbilisi and Moscow have become warmer in recent years ...
On 26 August 2008, Russia officially recognized both South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. [84] In July 2009, the media outlets reported that Georgia and Russia were on the brink of another war as both sides mobilized troops near Ergneti checkpoint. [85]