The enduring impacts of Russia’s 2008 war on Georgia

TOPSHOT - South Ossetian children walk to school past a destroyed building in Tskhinvali on September 1, 2008, the traditional start of the academic year in Russia and many countries of the former Soviet Union. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on the European Union to reject "NATO-centrism" as EU leaders prepared to discuss the Georgia crisis at a summit. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo by VIKTOR DRACHEV / AFP) (Photo by VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP via Getty Images)