Report on Georgia war good for Russia

The report of the EU's expert commission on the causes of the war in Georgia strengthens Russia's position, the daily Der Standard writes: "More than a year after the war Russia has created a situation that neither the demands of the EU governments nor the resolutions of the Council of Europe have been able to change. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the two secessionist Georgian provinces, have been definitively turned into Russian military bases - and are now de facto part of the Russian federation. Russia's obsession with exercising military control even beyond the Great Caucasus has been fulfilled. The Tagliavini Commission's decision, which divides responsibility for the outbreak of the war but gives Georgia most of the blame, is good for Vladimir Putin, the Russian war prime minister. With its artillery fire against Tskhinvali [South Ossetia's capital] Georgia has forfeited its right to represent the people of South Ossetia."

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