November 12, 2006 – A referendum is voted upon in which South Ossetians overwhelmingly demand independence. November 2007 – Russia announces that it has withdrawn its Georgia-based troops.

Ostracized by the EU, Georgia's new head of state Mikheil Kavelashvili says the Georgian Dream government has saved the ...

It has granted citizenship to South Ossetians and moved territorial markers in Russia's favor, all of which Georgians describe as creeping annexation. Russian trade cutoffs and interference with ...