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August 13 - Both Russia and Georgia approved a ceasefire deal negotiated by President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, which included provision to retreat all forces to the lines held before the beginning of the war. [20] Russian occupation of Gori began several hours after the ceasefire deal. Gori is an important central Georgian city.
He assessed Russian activities along the occupation line in Georgia as a "blatant" violation of international law. [154] In late August 2014, Estonian foreign minister Urmas Paet said that the so-called presidential elections in occupied Abkhazia on 24 August was illegal. "Recognising these elections would mean legitimising a military occupation.
The conflicts in Georgia remained at a stalemate until 2004, [86] when Mikheil Saakashvili came to power after Georgia's Rose Revolution, which ousted president Eduard Shevardnadze. [87] Restoring South Ossetia and Abkhazia to Georgian control was a first concern of Saakashvili.
Georgia reported that three Russian helicopters attacked the Georgian villages in the Kodori Gorge on 11 March 2007. [210] In early 2007, Georgia established what Russia called a "puppet government" in South Ossetia, led by Dmitry Sanakoyev (former South Ossetian prime minister), calling it a provisional administration.
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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 ...
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This is a timeline of Georgian history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Georgia and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Georgia .