While reading a lot about the conflict in Georgia I usually found anti-Russian articles. Like any person who wants to make his own opinion i needed other news sources which were not so easy to find.
Although I've found articles about the "bad Russia" the comments people left made me very happy. People were saying that the conflict was started by Georgia and Russia's actions are justified. Of course there were both type of comments pro-Russian and anti-Russian but I was still happy because both sides of views were present.
I've found this article on BBC's website about the situation in South Ossetia. Here is the article.
In the centre of the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, many buildings have been completely destroyed in the fighting.
There are apartment buildings all around with smashed windows, with bullet and shrapnel damage and gaping holes where there used to be windows.
People in Tskhinvali - the few that remain after many fled the fighting - told me they can see no future for South Ossetia in Georgia now, if they ever did.
They very clearly blame Georgia for the fighting and are extremely angry with President Mikhail Saakashvili, comparing him to Adolf Hitler.
Russian troops have been greeted in Tskhinvali as lifesavers.
People in the streets have been saying "thank you Russia, thank you Russia".
Most people in South Ossetia hold Russian passports and people feel a great affinity with Russia, and with North Ossetia over the border.
Posters in the street say "a united Ossetia is our future".
Georgians and South Ossetians used to live side by side but it looks like this will not be possible in the future.
AdvertisementFootage from inside the shattered city of Tskhinvali
I have seen the wreck of two Georgian tanks on a square near what was the main base of Russian peacekeepers.
The Russian military, which we are travelling with, said Georgian tanks fired on the peacekeepers and that was one of the key moments in this conflict. Georgia says it only acted in response to attacks by separatist and Russian forces.
I have been speaking to residents who are out trying to clear the wreck of their houses.
They have told me they have no water and no electricity here and they showed me the tiny basements where they sat out the fighting with their children.
One woman showed me where she hid with her daughter for two days with only a small lamp and a can of condensed milk.
The streets are quiet now but we did pass villages where houses were on fire.
A Russian military spokesman says the city of Tskhinvali itself is under Russian control now and there are no reports of any serious fighting.
But as to when the Russian troops will withdraw, he said there had been no official order for that.
I was told by the Russian army that it will respond with force if the region is attacked again.
On the way to Tskhinvali I saw about 12 armoured personnel carriers carrying tired-looking Russian soldiers heading away from South Ossetia.
But I have also seen military movement in the other direction, army trucks carrying personnel moving towards South Ossetia.
Those who have fled, however, seem in no hurry to return. I have seen no convoy of refugees gladly returning to their capital - indeed those I spoke to yesterday in North Ossetia, said they were not ready to go back to their homes.
Here is the map of Georgia















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Support your point of view. Russia has been supporting Osetian de-facto independence. Russia gave everybody citizenship. Russia kept their soldiers as peacekeepers. With all that....... Georgia started the military action, and in a special dates of the Olympic games, where all civilized war makes cease-fire. Pretty stupid, I think. Since Russia is far stronger than Georgia. Or they counted on NATO and US support?