Breaking diplomatic ties affects Georgia more than Moscow, because up to one million Georgians live and work in Russia, according to Kirill Bessonov, a political analyst from the Moscow News.
In an exclusive interview with RT, the president of South Ossetia, Eduard Kokoity, says that his newly-recognised country has no bad feelings against the Georgian people as a whole, calling them hostages of the current administration.
Political strategist and former presidential speech-writer for George W. Bush Joshua Trevino considers the U.S. presidential candidates' views on Abkhazia and South Ossetia.