The leader of the governing party said the country should apologize for a conflict for which many Georgians blame Moscow, heightening a monthslong political battle.

By Tornike Mandaria in Tbilisi Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of Georgia's ruling Georgian Dream party, declared that the country must apologise for the actions of the previous United National Movement (UNM) government during the 2008 Russo-Georgian war.

A former prime minister has described the conflict as a deliberate provocation aimed at dividing Georgians and Ossetians Georgias f

Georgia's most powerful man, Bidzina Ivanishvili, suggested that the South Caucasus country could apologise to Ossetians for the 2008 war with Russia that led to Moscow recognising two rebel Georgian regions,