Fighting between Georgian forces and South Ossetian separatists over the former autonomous oblast kills around a thousand and displaces tens of thousands in both directions. The June 1992 Sochi agreement ends the fighting with a Russian-led mixed peacekeeping format and the region outside Tbilisi's control.
Why it mattersThe first of the succession wars to freeze: a de facto entity, a displaced population, and Russian peacekeepers institutionalised on Georgian territory — the arrangement 2008 would detonate.