The Fight for Ge org ia

摘要

The war between Georgia and Russia was, inevitably, a brief and one-sided affair. Russian troops, backed by an aerial bombardment campaign, poured across the border into the disputed territory of South Ossetia last month, responding to what Moscow claimed was an incursion by Georgian forces. The Russians routed the army of its tiny neighbor, population 4.6 million, and then pushed into Georgia proper before the two sides agreed on a ceasefire. The fighting, which evoked memories of the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia during the cold war, unsettled world markets and raised fears of an era of renewed tensions between Moscow and the West.