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The original was posted on /r/sakartvelo by /u/DukeoftheCaucasus on 2023-08-07 19:27:02+00:00.

Given the fact that today marks 15 years since the august war and I’m a very political person, the one thing that’s been weighing on my mind is the Tagliavini report. It’s almost a given that in every discussion about the war someone is going to bring it up and that someone generally tends to be a pro-Russian person who clearly doesn’t understand the report. I think more needs to be done to address this and by that I mean two things.

1. Combating misinformation surrounding the report’s contents, explaining that despite its “conclusion” a lot of, if not most of, the info presented is actively going against the Separatist/Russian position in critical ways, both from the timeline it presents to the facts it presents, particularly surrounding Russia’s casus belli for intervention and subsequent occupation.
2. More to actually challenge the conclusion itself. While the report has generally fallen to the wayside, I don’t think there’s been enough attention given to exactly WHY the conclusion is wrong from major sources and institutions and this gives pro-Russian sources a free hand to continue acting as if it’s still valid.