Leszek, I agree with many things you say. Russia doesn't really care about ossetians, neither does Georgia. These are just power games. An innocent people are dying because their governments want to gain some points with other leaders (one leader in particular). I also agree that the best thing for Ossetia would be declaring its independence. However, it's not going to happen in the near future. Economically this region isn't self sufficient. Ossetia IS part of Georgia by the law, but as we all know, those who have a big enough army can position themselves above the law. Americans did it in Iraq, russians do it in Georgia. It was wrong then, it is wrong now.

But this is only natural that russian people don't accept your opinion. Someone brought yesterday an interesting quote in other topic, which I liked. Not the accurate translation, but the general meaning is: “Yeah, it's wrong. But it's my country and I want it to win". This summarizes it all. You can’t expect from russians wishing for lost, and you can't expect from georgians wishing for their lost either. You have to be a crazy masochist to want you country to lose no matter what, but in the same time nobody should allow to wash his brain to the point when he can't see the difference between right and wrong. I have a feeling, that many people did allow it.
The real picture of this war we'll learn after awhile. And then, hopefully, morality and human rights issues will come back to haunt us.