Conflict parties should use this lull to ease the suffering this decade-long process has inflicted on people living on both sides.
- ICG
In early August 2008, six years before it annexed Crimea and fourteen years before its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, Russia sent troops marching into Georgia.
That war was short – five days of fighting – but it was consequential.
Days after it ended, Russia recognised the self-declared independence of two longstanding breakaway Georgian regions, Abkhazia and…