@ poul

Well, let me white that smiley face from your post.

1) “We sat for four days in a cellar, without food and water,” – this suggests that they were leaving the area AFTER Russians engaged Georgians there. All other people are from the same group. Hence, this is not a valid support for your claims, as it is not clear what was going on in the theather, and people caught in the crossfire would still blame Georgians. I’m sure you could find some eyewitness accounts from the night of Georgian invasion, but this is not it, therefore, sir, you fail.

2) Russia hasn’t done that, thus you epically fail by trying to use a hypothetical. What if US apologized for Kosovo, and then sent CSGs into Black Sea?

Now to answer your question (I will not simply take your challenge, but smack you repeatedly over the head with you ignorant little question).

Russia will not do that because:

1) It is filled with patchwork of Regions especially in the Caucus, who desire to be independent, or at least highly autonomous.

2) The Chinese population in Eastern Russia and Siberia is increasing dramatically. Very soon China would be doing a little “peacekeeping operation”. Admitting that ethnicities deserve independence (that they were wrong about Kosovo) is a suicide for Russia.