Known for a natural beauty and hospitability, Georgia is as much variously inhabited region as any Old World multinational place is.

Tbilisi Viaduct, Photo by M. Kerjman

Historically, it was more easily reachable both geographically and spiritually for a Russian Tsars’ influence than for Ottoman Turkey or British rulers steadily moving towards the North through much higher and distant Himalayans in India (contemporary Pakistan).

Local boundaries and political entities have been formed during centuries and played no significance during communist epoch of the USSR.

A specific place of Georgia was factually secured by having a native Georgian, Joseph Dzhugashvili known as Stalin , at the top of a Soviet state during the most totalitarian and genocide epoch of so-called “working class power-ship”.

Although the ethnic Georgians as any other nationality suffered much under tyranny of this communist tsar, specific local relations had survived at a much more intact scale than in other European regions of the ex-USSR, grounding cooperation between nationally-different parts of this than Soviet Republic and already predetermining mafia-power broking fighting intensified since collapse of the USSR along both economic and nations’ lines

In such circumstances, formally autonomic under Soviet constitution regions of Georgia, inspired with East Timor and Kosovo developments, followed in footsteps of other ex-USSR places such as Moldova’s Pridnister Region and Chechnya, for instance, declared themselves political entities independent from Georgia in 1999.

Sick from communist delusions and tired with continuing clan feuds, sharply impoverished after losing the traditional SU markets and consumers of local industry, population indifferently watched at a political farce having brought US-educated London-oriented supposedly progressive new-generation leader M. Sarakashvili to a presidential palace.

As during M.Saakashvili rule a local majority’s post-USSR pitiful existence had changed a little, not recognised self-proclaimed-independent provinces intensify their moves towards full international Kosovo-style statehoods.

Perhaps, starting a war against rebellion provinces entertains not attending Beijing world powerbrokers less impressively than Olympiad-2008 does.

It is a pity to realise that my comments are instantly invisible on English-language BBC pages. One could say, it because a freedom of speech is existing somewhere for exports only:
“Suggesting one is writing on this page while being in Sth. Ossetia is as much naïve as awarding Kosovo terrorists with statehood while supporting a pro-independent Kosovo Georgia’s “national integrity”.

However, I saw no contradicting BBC masters’ opinions in this English-language site till a date at all.”

I hope at BBC none is offended by not waiting any longer for London broadcaster’s mercy at publishing a comment provided above.

Peace for Georgia, Osetia, Russia, Europe-and all us round a globe NOW!