Russia - Georgian relations and the war on Abkhazia and South Ossetia
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moscow tried to find a way to maintain influence in the post-Soviet republics. To this end, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was founded in 1991, which was joined by most of the post-Soviet states. Georgia refused to join the CIS. Since then, Russia's entire relationship with Georgia has been based on efforts to force Georgia to join the CIS. The growing ethnic conflicts between the Georgians and local minorities, which eventually escalated into a war between Georgia and separatist Abkhazia and South Ossetia, respectively, seemed to be a great means of coercion.
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