At 7 p.m. on August 8, the day when Olympics started, worldwide community heard from CNN and BBC news that Russian tanks invaded Georgia and that Russia started war with Georgia.

That the war had begun 16 hours earlier by Georgian president Sukashvili’s order these media preferred to pass over in silence.

But you have the right to know truth. That’s how this really happened:

According to old tradition of Olympic Games’ eve everyone was looking for peace and quiet. On August 7, Georgian and South Ossetian officials agreed to observe a ceasefire and hold debates in attempt to solve their long-term conflict peacefully.

August 8, 00:06
Just hours later, six minutes past midnight on August 8, inhabitants of Ossetian capital Tskhinvali, peacefully sleeping in their beds, heard dreadful whizz of incoming rockets. The hell followed soon… Without any declaration Georgian forces launched massive shelling of Tskhinvali with all available means, including heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems GRAD. In this massacre, in just several hours, the whole city was ruined: 2,000 human lives wasted and 85% of all buildings demolished. Georgian military expedition, called “Clean field”, yielded its first fruits…

August 8, 03:00
Georgian army occupied five Ossetian villages, burning them to ashes.

August 8, 03:30
Georgian tanks started attack on Tskhinvali. Ossetian militia stood up to the enemy but could not keep back 30-times outnumbering Georgian forces. Many basements where Ossetins tried to escape shelling were showered with grenades. At the very same time, Georgian “peacekeepers”, serving in South Ossetia, launched unexampled attack on their yesterday’s colleagues, Russian peacekeepers, managing to kill at least 10 of them.

August 8, 04:33
Russia called for UN Security Council meeting to put a stop to Georgian military aggression and seize fire. No decision was delivered at neither this nor several following meetings.

August 8, 09:00
Russian Prime Minister Putin informed President Bush that Georgia launched war against Ossetia. Mr. Bush answered that “nobody wanted this war”.

Ossetia was praying for help. It was already obvious that “clean field” meant nothing else but ethnical cleansing. In these circumstances, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that Russia would defend Russian citizens who constitute 90% of South Ossetia population.

August 8, 16:00
Russian forces overstepped mountain pass and made their way toward perishing Ossetins. That was exactly the moment when CNN and BBC finally “noticed” the war and broadcasted their «Russians invaded Georgia» scenes. Sukashvili announced that Russia invaded Georgia and held back that he started this horrible bloodshed himself.

Before midnight, Russian and Ossetian forces kicked aggressors out of Ossetian capital. Survived citizens started to leave basements to escape the city. In the next couple days around 30,000 refugees fled to Russia.

Failed Georgian assault turned to informational blackout and devilish propaganda. It’s time when so much depends on your personal position! I believe that there will be journalists who can give objective picture of these events. I believe in people of peace who will regard an attempt of massive extermination of small nation as genocide (3% of South Ossetins and 0.3% of all Ossetins worldwide were killed in just one night on August 8; fascists have never achieved that efficiency in exterminating Jewish people even when Auschwitz and Treblinka were working at full capacity). I believe in a world community that will view Sukashvili’s inhuman orders as war crime and an outrage on humanity. I believe in you, thinking person, able to confront with facts, person who will not follow barefaced propaganda of politicized and deeply corrupt media, person able to recognize truth!

We present a set of photographs from the war in South Ossetia made by Arcady Pachinko, one of the editors of Russian war veterans Almanac ”Art of War” (http://www.navoine.ru/). Arcady went with Russian troops on the route Vladikavkaz – Tshinval – Zemo Nikozi – Gori and participated as journalist in the battle for Georgian village Zemo Nikozi. Photographs were prepared and placed in the Internet by Chief Editor of the Almanac Ilya Plekhanov.

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Full text of the Editor Note: http://www.navoine.ru/life/inostrannye-yazyki/261

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American and European mass media not right. That American course in scramble dominant party in favor of Oval Office.
I always know what American government and businessmen when pursue purposes always immolate people both their citizen so foreigner people all the more so
both apart from of itself nobody for people not valid! How that been in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Serbia, Afghanistan, etc.
American government gate an order their vassal country Georgia attack Ossetia republic. Russia protect their people. Mass media settle down to brainwash population of word a wrong impression information. And people both don’t know history itself country, say nothing of history of Word. Suck at analyze situation, he takes it all in on. American government to carry one’s point, on-coming dictator Mac Kein amended regain positions in favor of Oval Office and one jump ahead of Obama. And America for the time being hero, Russia aggressor, Georgia indemnity, and Ossetia overall nobody don’t know what that ! American government do one’s bit, and Georgian president just in case make as if get the laugh. So if all mistake way, it is possible say that Saacashvili psychinosis and American don’t know this and warranted free from acts Georgian President!
Study history, people! Russia never been aggressor, he only protect always. As was formerly the case witch Mongolia, first Word War when half Europe attack Russia and Two Word War when Fashist attack Russia, and Japan war when Japan attack Russian, and Chechen conflict when terrorist kill Russian people. All country of Europe pass a wet sponge over what Russia lost many soldier emancipate from Fashist Army country of Europe, and usually nobody don’t occupation. I guess so it been stink out Fashist from Russian territory and pull out Fashist at Europe territory interesting what will been?
One mistake of Russia will be Cheh Republic when Russia want stop revolution and Afghanistan when Russia want stop narcotraffic, where Russia forfeit lives her soldier.
Hungry to sensation Word mass media there is do from Russia the Grate Word Aggressor good gum! what’s that? That sensation! Whereof recognize that banal conflict where Georgia as early as over the period of 300 years trying terminate nonconformist (according to Georgia) fight for independence Ossetia republic and has nail that territory himself! Mass media that not interesting, that not sensation!
People will be objective!

America have control Iraq, so that connect access to oil! If Russia will be as greedy as America and want control anything. Оonly in Georgia nothing doing, that beggar country. Oonly Saacashvili vocalize about healthy Georgia. Only one fact more than 75 present population live and work in Russia territory and only thereon Georgian economic receive if only something many.(grim humor: if Russia would like kill Georgian people (whereof talk president Saacashvili)
so Russian army needed doing at one night kill all Georgian people on Russian territory and then other Georgian people live in Georgia died themselves of famine)
Georgia was healthy only in USSR, but when Georgia stay independent, all what was build Russian for Georgia (fabric and manufacture) was stop work and beggar Georgian people break down that and sell it as scrap metal.
Тtherefore Georgia was occupation the riches closely-spaced health resort republic as Ossetia and Aphasia. So that make many on tourism.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081600502.html?hpid=topnews

When the reporter of the Haykakan Zhamanak asked why President Serge Sargsyan watching the Olympic Games in Beijing did not return to Armenia when war ignited not far from Armenia, Galust Sahakyan said: “Frankly speaking, since Levon Ter-Petrosyan was here, they thought he would settle everything” Said the deputy leader of the Republican Party Galust Sahakyan who was hosted at the Iravunk de facto Club.

The Marzpanate period is the time in Armenian history after the fall of the Arshakuni Dynasty of Armenia in 428, when Marzpans (governors-general of the boundaries), nominated by the Sassanid Persian King, governed the eastern part of Armenia. An estimated three million Armenians fell under the sway of the Persian marzpans during this period. The Marzpan was invested with supreme power, even to the imposing of death sentences; but he could not interfere with the age-long privileges of the Armenian nakharars (feudal lords) Armenia was divided into large estates, which were the property of an enlarged noble family and were ruled by a member of it, to whom the title of nahapet “chief of the family” or tanuter master of the house was given. Other members of a nakharar family in their turn ruled over smaller portions of the family estate. (from Wikipedia articles)

Anyone today can drive out of Yerevan and see the palace of nakharar Dodi Gago. And Sargsyan is simply a governor-general of the new Russian empire. Armenia under Kocharian and Sargsyan is not simply a puppet regime, it’s a shadow puppet regime, and cannot even think a thought of its own.

http://www.himaam.info

P.S the term Tatar-Mongol here has no connection to tatars or Mongols as well .Here in this context the term Tatar-Mongol means the philosopy of governing So it can never be accepted as Racist ok?
NO PASSARAN

Please do not repeat the racist anti-Armenian rhetoric spewed by Levon.

You may not like President Sargsyan, of course that is your opinion, but there is no need to sink to the low levels of the power-at-all-costs demagogues of the radical opposition. This attempt to psychologically divide the nation in unnecessary and destructive,

Russia really wanted this war for the reasons we’ve discussed (creeping territorial land grab, oil pipeline, more hotels for Sochi Olympics, etc.) U.S. Republicans want this war because it’s the only way they can possibly retain the White House in November. (Peace = Democrats; War = Republicans) South Ossetians and Abkhazians want to be independent or Russian (whichever you believe), and Saakashvili wants to keep the country together, but without giving economic incentives for the Ossetians and Abkazians to remain. Once again, the common people are fodder for others’ ambitions.

В связи со всем этим информационным кипишем вокруг Осетии возник вопрос, который вообще-то должен был возникнуть ещё с первого дня войны. Моей тормознутости, конечно, нет никаких оправданий.

Известно, что в современной политике войны без PR-профессионалов не начинают. Точнее, они начинают работать задолго до начала войны. Поэтому логичен вопрос: какие американские PR-фирмы или лоббистские конторы работают сейчас для Грузии?

Небольшая прогулка по Гугл вывела на фирмы Scheunemann & Associates и Orion Strategies LLC, владельцем которых является Рэнди Шунеман (Randy Scheunemann). В газете «Уолл Стрит Джорнал» от 23 мая этого года сообщалось, что фирмы Шунемана, кроме прочих представляли также интересы Грузии и Македонии (статья не в свободном доступе, нужные отрывки — тут). ( Read more… )В марте он в письменном виде заявлял в минюст, что прекращает работать с этими клиентами, однако журналисты «Уолл Стрит Джорнал» выяснили, что тем не менее договора на общую сумму $240000 между его фирмами и этими странами всё ещё остаются в силе. Более того, пресс-секретарь грузинского посольства в Вашингтоне подтвердила журналистам, что контракт посольства с фирмой Orion Strategies LLC активен. Добавлю от себя, что ещё год назад Шунеман сам в открытую заявляет, что является официально зарегистрированным в минюсте лоббистом Грузии в письме журналу Harpers. В свою очередь Комсомолка утверждает, что Шунеман лоббировал за вступление Латвии в НАТО и до недавних пор продолжал это делать для Грузии.

А чем примечателен Рэнди Шунеман по жизни? Из мелочей (вкусное оставляю на десерт ;)): перед американским вторжением в Ирак он успел поработать директором группы, лоббировавшей в пользу вторжения. Контора работала под вывеской «Комитет по освобождению Ирака» (Committee for the Liberation of Iraq). В свою очередь эта группа представляла из себя подпроект организации Project for New American Century (PNAC), в котором тот же Шунеман работал аналитиком по вопросам международных отношений и национальной безопасности. PNAC — контора неоконов, о которой достаточно подробно уже написал сегодня Слон. Отмечу только, что посланник США в ООН Залмай Халилзад — пикировавшийся вчера в Совбезе с Чуркиным — тоже из кадров PNAC.

Но вернёмся к Шунеману. Неутомимый труженник является также членом совета директоров International Republican Institute (IRI), который в свою очередь представляет из себя инструмент продвижения интересов National Endowment for Democracy. Что такое NED, думаю объяснять не надо. Также в 2005—2006 гг. его фирма Scheunemann & Associates выступала в роли субподрядчика для другой лоббистской фирмы Caspian Alliance, Inc, которая связана с нефтяным бизнесом в Казахстане, Туркмении и Азербайджане.

Но это всё мелочи. Самое интересное, что Рэнди Шунеман — главный советником сенатора Маккейна по международным отношениям. В свете чего крайне агрессивное заявление кандидата в президенты США от республиканцев относительно «российского нападения на Грузию» заиграло новыми, более богатыми цветами ;)

По особому смотрится сейчас и заявление Эстонии о необходимости немедленно принять Грузию в НАТО: не надо быть параноиком, чтобы предположить, что возможно к этой инициативе Эстонии приложили руки люди Шунемана.
http://ahousekeeper.livejournal.com/272710.html

For English readers, I posted a humungous article from the New York Times on khosq that gives a background, to parallel your Russian link.
http://khosq.com/en-us/article/2008/08/09/taunting_the_bear_new_york_times_in_depth_opinion_article_on_georgia_russia_confl

This site is created for some propaganda reason. There is a rumor that this is a project of some russian guys to provoke tensions in a region.
If you look carefully no news from there seems to have any ground,
For me personally,such kind of info like about Javakhk is style of sites like day.az
People,be careful.
There is big propaganda war,so far,providing any links taki into account possible outcomes.