From the height of the events that took place a year ago, it seems that the operation initiated by Saakashvili in South Ossetia was simply doomed to failure, and the President of Georgia himself committed political suicide at the time when he gave the invasion of Tskhinval. But in 2008, the Georgian leadership seemed to be different. As you know, after Saakashvili came to power, he initiated a number of reforms, including military reform.

http://www.russ.ru/mirovaya-povestka/putin-obyazan-dat-mededevu-shans-stat-velikim-prezidentom Program interview with Pavlovsky ("as if on the 10th anniversary of Putin). He says approximately the following: although some, as happened more than once, were going to bury the PEP, he remained "in business." Because the text shows that it is not a "trembling creature", but "the right has." As Putin was taken to the political space, so now we will begin to withdraw Medvedev.

These days ten years ago, fate lifted Vladimir Putin to the peaks of political power in Russia. Since then, not only the country has changed, but the then prime minister, then the president, and now the prime minister is again. In fact, the critics and ill -wishers of Putin say, the time of his stay in the post of head of state, especially in the second term, really turned out to be among the few periods of relative well -being in the history of Russia of the last centuries.