The war in August 2008
August 8 at 01:30 Georgia officially declared war on South Ossetia. Georgian officials announced that Georgia "in response to provocations" had launched a military operation to "establish constitutional control" over the territory "of the Tskhinvali region of Georgia."
The grand opening ceremony of the photo exhibition of the publicist, a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia Natalia Batraeva "Kosovo-South Ossetia: A look from within" has taken place today in Tskhinval.
The exhibition includes the works made by the author in 2005 - 2013 in Kosovo and in South Ossetia.
Representatives of South Ossetia participated in a round table in Vilnius (Lithuania), which discussed the events of the Georgian-South Ossetian war in August 2008. As the news agency "Res" was informd by the editor of the newspaper "South Ossetia" Zalina Tskhovrebova, representatives of South Ossetia had participated in the discussion through the space bridge set up between Tskhinval and Vilnius.
The fifth anniversary of the August 2008 aggression the South Ossetian society is marking in a state of serious national depression. This opinion was expressed by the Chairman of the State Committee of Information and Press of South Ossetia Vyacheslav Gobozov at yesterday's meeting of experts at the Media Centre "Ir", which participants had discussed the status of South Ossetia and the Republic as a whole, after five years of the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia in August 2008.
In South Ossetia, as part of the events dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Georgian aggression in August 2008, has been held a ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the Memorial "Defenders of Ossetia." The event was attended by President Leonid Tibilov, government officials, members of the public, political parties, as well as the guests of the Republic.
In the capital of South Ossetia, at 23:35 sharp- the time when five years ago the Georgian troops launched a massive rocket and artillery bombardment of Tskhinval,- from the bell tower of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin rang the alarm bell in memory of the innocent victims of aggression and started the action "Living Light of Memory". Participants of the action lit candles in memory of the war dead- defenders of the Republic and the civilians.
South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov does not exclude further military provocations from the Georgian side, declared the Head of State at today`s press conference in Tskhinval.
According to him, Georgia continues to build up its military capability and strengthens its armed forces.
The international community should recognize the genocide of the Ossetian people, otherwise the repetition of the scenario in August 2008 is not excluded, said South Ossetian President Leonid Tibilov at the briefing in Tskhinval.
The war in August 2008. On the eve of invasion ...
On the night of August 7, 2008, began a steady bombardment of the populated areas of South Ossetia. At midnight a village Dmenis was fired from the Georgian-controlled village of Eredvi, Sarabuk, Satikar, and the southern outskirts of Tskhinval.
Five years ago, on the night of August 8, 2008, the Georgian government committed a fatal strategic mistake. Overestimating the political support of the United States and having underestimated the moral obligations assumed by Russia, Tbilisi launched a war of aggression against South Ossetia, resulted in the predictable defeat of the Georgian military machine and the final loss of the two former Georgian autonomies.
