CONSEQUENCES OF THE GEORGIAN-SOUTH OSSETIAN ARMED CONFLICT IN 2008

Abstract

We consider the consequences of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict to the international community. Aspects of contradictions and interests of South Ossetia and Georgia in the international arena. The analysis of the Georgian-South Ossetian relations, in the context of the security problems of the Caucasus region and taking into account the national interests of Russia, as one of the major mediators of the negotiation process between Georgia and South Ossetia. Presented by the opinion of international organizations around the situation in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in August 2008. It is shown that the reaction of the NATO Council, the European Parliament on the recognition by the Russian Federation of the independence of South Ossetia. Concretized and summarized expert assessments of Russian and foreign political scientists on the causes and consequences of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict. A new period in the history of the Republic of South Ossetia after the recognition of its independence by the Russian Federation. The estimation of the international community's recognition of independence of the Republic of South Ossetia. This conflict can be defined as a complex type of armed conflict, which is in its ethno-political roots, initially to develop a domestic, but later transformed into the international conflict. The problems of the foreign relations of the young state, the prospects for its viability after the selfdetermination of the Ossetian people and the armed conflict with Georgia in 2008, the forecast is given to development of relations between Georgia and the Republic of South Ossetia and the Caucasus region as a whole. Chronologically, it will be discussed between August 2008 after the recognition by the Russian Federation of the independence of South Ossetia and September 2009, when the final report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Commission on the Conflict in Georgia published.