南奧塞提亞 / 茨欣瓦利地區（事實上）→ 高加索地區的俄羅斯

摘要

On 26 August 2008, two weeks after the ceasefire that ended the August war, Russia recognised Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states and signed basing agreements with each. The arrangement with the South Ossetian de facto authorities converted the ambiguous peacekeeping formats of the 1990s into a declared, permanent Russian military presence on territory Georgia and almost every other state recognise as Georgian. It has run without interruption since, and no Georgian government has had any mechanism to contest it. Vigil records the existence and the declared basis of the arrangement and publishes nothing about its content: no site, no formation, no strength and no activity.

為何重要

It is what makes Georgia's territorial question frozen rather than contested. The 2008 war is often read as the moment the boundary moved; the basing arrangement is the moment it stopped being movable. Every later development in this file — the integration treaties, the borderisation, the leadership changes — happens inside a settlement this arrangement holds in place.

相關事件

• 俄羅斯承認阿布哈茲與南奧塞提亞 2008年8月26日

  政治 · 外交

組織

此關係藉以運作的結構。它們並非關係的當事方——當事方是上方的兩個行為者。

仍然未知的事項

• The text of the basing agreement is not public. This record describes its existence and its declared basis, not its terms.
• Vigil publishes no locations, formations, strengths or activity for this arrangement, and the absence is structural rather than a gap this record expects to fill.