A genuine war between Georgia and Russia threatening after a день of hard fighting and reports of many deaths in the pro-Russian breakaway South Ossetia.

Georgia informs Friday evening that it withdraw 1000 troops Главная from Iraq to insert them in fighting against Russian forces and excite.

-- These are some of our best soldiers, сказал(-а) Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who also has convened army reservists for service.

At the same time, Russian news agencies reported that Russian soldiers and Georgian forces are in direct battle in South Ossetia Capital Tskhinvali Region.

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Georgia - History

GEORGIA'S LOCATION AT a major commercial crossroads and among several powerful neighbors has provided both advantages and disadvantages through some twenty-five centuries of history. Georgia is comprised of regions having distinctive traits. The ethnic, religious, and linguistic characteristics of the country as a unit coalesced to a greater degree than before under Russian rule in the nineteenth century. Then, beneath a veneer of centralized economic and political control imposed during seventy years of Soviet rule, Georgian cultural and social institutions survived, thanks...