A year after the end of the Caucasus war, Russia still ignores a vast part of an agreement signed by Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev.


The “six point plan” agreed upon by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev last August, and, a month later, an amended “three point plan” is still mostly ignored by the Kremlin. The deal was not based on strictly formulated rules, but rather postulates, often ambiguous. That helped Russia explain its violations of the settlement.  Russia did not stop the cease-fire completely, but only limited its scale, unlike Georgia. There are also some problems with the Russian withdrawal “to the lines held prior to the outbreak of hostilities.” The country’s military forces did withdraw, but did not restore the pre-war conditions in the region.

Russians deployed a number of troops in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, exceeding the size of the peace-keeping forces that were there before the conflict. The territories in the regions, inhabited by Georgians and controlled by Tibilisi, were not returned to Georgia either. One such place is the Kodori Gorge, a crucial hot spot for military conflict in the area.