Today, on July, 14, South Ossetia is celebrating one of the most significant dates of the modern history - entering the mixed forces on supporting peace into the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Today is 19 years from the beginning of the peace-making operation with a unique format (except the Russian contingent, the mixed forces on supporting peace also included the Ossetian and the Georgian battalions). The peacemakers entered into the conflict zone on July, 14, 1992. By this moment thousands civilians have become the victims of three-year aggression of Georgia against South Ossetia, 117 Ossetian villages have been burnt, more than 100 thousand Ossetians have been expelled from their houses. Tskhinval found itself in a siege, the defenders of the town were repulsing the daily attacks of the Georgian army, and the fights became more and more hardened and bloody.
In the result of the prolonged war Georgia found itself in the difficult socio-economic and political position. As a result the Georgian leadership has been compelled to sit down at the negotiating table in Sochi and on June, 24, 1992 it signed the quadrilateral (Russia, Georgia, Northern and Southern Ossetia) agreement on principles of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict settlement. Carrying out their mission, the peacemakers were protecting fragile peace in a zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict during 16 years and, as a matter of fact, they have been the only guarantor of peaceful life. However, with coming to power the Georgian .leadership, led by Saakashvili, the official Tbilisi has launched campaign for discrediting the peace-making operation and the Russian peacemakers. In August, 2008 the Russian peacemakers the first took the Georgian attack of South Ossetia violating all standards of the international law and all the obligations taken by Georgia, including the Sochi agreements 1992. Rescuing the peacemakers and the population of South Ossetia, Moscow has been compelled to carry out military operation on compelling Tbilisi to peace. The same month Russia recognized independence of South Ossetia, and the mission of the mixed forces on supporting peace has been completed. The peacemakers’ mission was continued by the Russian military men and frontier guards. According to the friendship treaty, cooperation and mutual aid from September, 17, 2008 and the agreement on joint efforts on protecting the state border from April, 30, 2009 the 4th Russian military base and the FSS Boundary management of the Russian Federation in the RSO are established.
