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unusual facts about 2008 South Ossetia war



Mamuka Kurashvili

On August 7, 2008, at the beginning of 2008 South Ossetia war Kurashvili told Rustavi 2 television that Georgian forces were moving to "establish constitutional order in the Ossetian region."

Novofedorivka

During the 2008 South Ossetia War, the President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, has stopped Russian pilots from using the carrier training facilities.

Paavo Lipponen

On 15 August 2008, during the 2008 South Ossetia war, Nord Stream, a Russian gas project, announced that it had signed a consulting contract with Lipponen.

Svante Cornell

In 2009, together with S. Frederick Starr, he edited The Guns of August 2008: Russia's War in Georgia, which addresses the causes and consequences of the 2008 South Ossetia War.

Valeriya Novodvorskaya

In an interview with Echo Moskvy, in which she was discussing the 2008 South Ossetia War, Novodvorskaya said that Shamil Basayev was a democrat, given his support of Boris Yeltsin during the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt and his participation in the government of Aslan Maskhadov in 1997, who had appointed Basayev Deputy Premier of the Ichkerian government.


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