Medvedev claims “Georgia’s aggression against S.Ossetia” was “first” worsening Russia’s relations with west

Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian deputy head of a security council and former president on Sunday claimed the “west’s support of Georgia’s aggression against the people of South Ossetia ” was the “first ” that complicated Mosciw’s relations with it. 

 

He said the second such point was in the spring of 2014 “when the people of Crimea expressed their will through a legal referendum and returned forever to their historical homeland. In the Western world, this had caused furious hysteria,” Medvedev claimed. 

 

Russia recognized the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) as independent states following its war with Georgia in August 2008. 

 

Since then only Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru and Syria have joined the illegal move, while the rest of the international community is unanimous that the regions are occupied by Russia, calling on the country to withdraw its troops from Georgia’s historic lands.