Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that he has no regrets about giving the go ahead for Russian troops to move into South Ossetia after Georgia launched an attack a year ago.

“I have no regrets about that period. It was a very important period in the life of our state and we made the choice, we reacted honestly and responsibly,” Medvedev said during a meeting with Russian script writers for a NTV movie entitled In August 2008.