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A judgment that the declaration of independence was legal would also have an impact on the wider international stage, bolstering demands for recognition by territories as diverse as Northern Cyprus, Somaliland, Nagorno-Karabakh, South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria.

The early signs were not good with looting, killing and rapes in villages in both Georgia and South Ossetia.

Even as Russia was "liberating" South Ossetia, its security services were intimidating human-rights activists in Ingushetia and Dagestan.

In early July Russia staged a massive military exercise on the border with South Ossetia.

"This war is not about South Ossetia, Abkhazia or Georgia," she says.

In practice, this means that Russia will not allow Georgia back into Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Bilateral tension remained high until summer 2008, when the two countries fought a five-day war over the territory of South Ossetia, which ended with Russian troops occupying parts of Georgia proper.

Georgia has had a turbulent post-Soviet experience, to put it mildly, beset by separatist conflicts in two territories, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and riven by a civil war that left the centre of the capital, Tbilisi, in ruins.

Sputnik News will have hubs in major capitals including Beijing, Berlin, London, Paris and Washington DC, but its offices are especially concentrated in Russia's near abroad; with the exception of Turkmenistan, all former Soviet republics will host a Sputnik hub, as well the Georgian breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which Georgia considers to be under Russian military occupation.

Mr Noghaideli observes defiantly that Georgia can have good relations with Russia "if we get down on our knees".But an actual war in South Ossetia or Abkhazia would mean disaster for Georgia, and not only because it would probably lose.

A Russian soldier at the checkpoint told Tsisana Tabadtadze, a Georgian refugee from South Ossetia who was haranguing him, that he came from Yaroslavl, 250km north-east of Moscow.