PhD student of the Doctorate Educational Program of Modern and Nearest History, Maka Buliskeria defended dissertation at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University Faculty of Humanities on March 2. The title of the dissertation work is “For the history of International Estimation of Russian-Georgian War in August 2008” (academic supervisor – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Elguja Mamukelashvili).

The main purpose of the dissertation work is to study and analyze the relationship issues with the neighboring countries and socio-political and socio-economic relations of Georgia in 10 years of XXI century. There are revealed several different approaches in connection with Russian and Georgian War of 2008 year. The goal is to determine in the social and political consciousness of Georgia the prevailing, completely one-sided, in many cases highly biased estimates with the critical analysis to be able to make the objective generalization of the historical events in connection to the war.

The work novelty represents a thing that, in Georgian historiography there is a totally new, first attempt for creation of the history of international legal assessments of the results of Russian and Georgian War in August of 2008 year. The novelty is that, the reasons for the war of August of 2008 year, the prerequisites and the military strategic plans of participants, type of weapons, quantity, military operations and the results of history are for the first time studied complexly and analyzed in the Georgian historiography.

Maka Buliskeria  was awarded the academic degree of the Doctor of History.