Aw shucks it now turns out that the South Ossetians and Abkhazians (excluding the 193,919 Georgians; 31,671 Armenians and 13,181 Greeks they "ethnically cleansed" from the Georgian province sometime in between 1989 and 2003) didn't want "independence" after all - they wanted to be part of a United Russian State - How convenient for Mr Putin.

Makes "Right of return" a bit easier?

Payment of Compensation? At least the Russians have the wherewithal to pay it.

Naked land grab, pure and simple. Message should be pressed home by the world and it's dog to Russia - Not one more square centimetre, get your troops out of Georgia now and if in future you are going to issue foreign nationals with Russian Passports supply the one way airline tickets with them so that those new "Russians" can transport themselves back within the borders of Russia to live, they are that much easier to "protect" there.