Broken Bridge: Georgia-Abkhazia Ceasefire Line

Learn more: http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/eurasia/georgia-and-beyond-russias-respons...

Broken bridge checkpoint in the gorge that used to separate Georgian and Russian troops until it was overrun in the last few days. Here, Georgian soldiers stand guard, watching the Russian soldiers on the other side.

This report is part of Pulitzer Center-sponsored project "Georgia and Beyond: Russia's Response to Separatism and Ethnic Conflict" (http://bit.ly/vq1rn1).

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• Pulitzer Center
• Abkhazia
• Russia and Georgia War
• Georgia
• North Caucasus
• Sovereign State
• War in Georgia
• South Ossetia
• Conflict in Georgia
• Independence
• Fragile State
• Caucasus Conflict
• The Caucasus

[MrCocanuts]

but that was 40 years later and you were the soviet union

[Disgorge2b]

@MrCocanuts but then we took revenge in 1945, defeating the 2,5 million Kwantung Army in 23 days

[MrCocanuts]

@Disgorge2b but they lost to japan in 1905

[Disgorge2b]

@MrCocanuts Russia of course, Russia win all wars

[arlik100]

European Union's commission on Russia-Georgia war and recent WiliLeaks cables stated that it was Georgia that was agressor in that war against disputed region of S.Ossetia which was under EU (OSCE) peacekeeping mandate hold by Russians. Russian military responce was legal and necessary.

[xBeTaHoUsEx]

@EmperorofTerra no body dies for nothing thous guys have died for freedom and i'm proud to be called georgian because of thous boy's

[xBeTaHoUsEx]

@MrCocanuts georgia

[pacificguitarist]

@MrCocanuts

russia crushed georgia.

[lashatotladze]

@MrCocanuts :

no1

[MrCocanuts]

who did win the war? russian or georgia?