"Strictly in proportion to attack scales": the ambassador Russian Federation to South Ossetia — about the August conflict of 2008

On August 26, 2008 President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev signed the decree about recognition of independence Abkhazia and South Ossetia. It was preceded by numerous attempts official Moscow to settle the conflict between Georgia and the republics peacefully. However in the night of August 8, 2008 the Georgian security officers attacked South Ossetia. In attempt to seize the territory of the republic civilians were lost. On August 8 Dmitry Medvedev declared the beginning of operation on coercion Georgia to the world, come to the end with defeat of the Georgian divisions. The plenipotentiary ambassador Russian Federation to South Ossetia (in 2008...