“The face of the enemy scares me when I see how it looks like my own,” wrote the hedgehogs. A special dispute will not work about Saakashvili. After the fact that this hero arranged in Tskhinvali, it would really be useful for him to relax in the Hague. But to someone, and Russian officials should be silent about this in a rag. For Saakashvili must sit in the Hague - next to Putin, and both under the portrait of Milosevich.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on August 14 that talk about the territorial integrity of Georgia “can be forgotten.” It seems that this is the first such statement by official Russia, except for the positions of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Gennady Zyuganov, who from the very beginning of the conflict spoke about the need to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

The decision of President Dmitry Medvedev to conduct a military operation against the Georgian troops caused various judgments in the liberal camp. A lot says that this operation itself was a mistake, since it violated the norms of international law and entail the most difficult political consequences within Russia. The authors of these judgments, however, do not ask an elementary question - but what to do?

Russia’s position in this case is absolutely clear, it comes from exactly what Lavrov said: taking into account the mood inside South Ossetia and Abkhazia after what happened, it would be strange to talk all the time about the territorial integrity of Georgia, the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia They will take it as an insult. It's pretty hard to argue with that.

On August 14, information appeared that the city of Gori August was already under the control of Georgian forces. In any case, both Russian and Georgian officials spoke about this.

Yesterday there was mourning in Russia for those killed in the Caucasus. There, in Ossetia, this mourning continues. Officials have said and will say many more words that are appropriate to say on days like these. And this is right: the most that the living can do for the departed is to remember them. About everyone and everyone separately. Calling separately and by name. All the past days this was not enough.

Within hours of Russia's invasion of Georgia, senior Russian officials began talking about the Kremlin's adherence to international law, which Moscow says it still adheres to today. In fact, behind these big words, the Kremlin is not only trying to justify the use of force in Georgia, but also insisting on granting independence to the Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, trying to give legitimacy to its enclaves in the Caucasus.