I am aware of the huge ethnic conflicts and cleansings throughout the Kaukasus. If we go by nationalist arguments (which is quite en vogue in this thread and at other examples like Tibet) there have not been many Georgians in Abkhazia before the end of the 19th century so this was due to later
Georgization and Russification and ethnic/religious cleansing on behalf of religion. After the fall of the Russian Empire Georgian nationalists claimed and occupied these territories in 1918.have not accepted Abkhazian and Ossetian wishes for independence (neither did the Bolsheviki, of course, and Stalin's minority policies is a chapter of his own, especially in the Caucasus, in an
divide et impera manner.
As ethnicity concepts and alliances have often chancged in the Kaukasus and Saakashwilli is a corrupt and diehard nationalist of its own merit the Russia is allways bad and the others are always good" dichotomy is probably not the best way to describe ethnic conflicts, there.
Although the try to abolish Russian as official language was surely not the smartest move by the Rada, especially as one of the first measures, it seems clear that Russia is agressive conerning the status of Crimea. Strawman detected.
