Article of the Vice-chairman of Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev

Augustus of the 2008th. Unlearned lessons occurred events which never we will forget neither we, nor the whole world Fifteen years ago. On August 7, 2008 at 23 hours 35 minutes Georgia brought down heavy fire from guns, "Gradov" and mortars on the sleeping capital South Ossetia – Tskhinvali. It was reported about blows to hospitals and to schools, about mass death of residents, many of which there was citizens Russian Federation, about losses among the Russian peacekeepers. Not simply provocation – war. The purpose of aggression was through blood, death and horror to return rebellious South Ossetia to borders of the state hostile to it, which for many years...