Russian Foreign Ministry Comments on 18th Anniversary of August War

Russia’s Foreign Ministry marked the 18th anniversary of the 2008 Russia-Georgia war in an August 8 statement, which again blamed the then-Georgian government for starting the conflict. According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, on the night of August 7-8, 2008, “in violation of all international agreements on the peaceful settlement of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, …

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