Georgia blocks broadcasts by Russian language TV station

[Rusiko Amirejibi-Mullen]

That interview with Lavrov where he obviousely talks specificaly for  
the Russians (because nobody else believes what he says) was shown by  
all Georgian channeles several times.  I watched it at least 5 times  
the same day. Ria novosti as well as all all other Russian new  
agencies is serving the Kremlin.

By the way, if anybody wants to know more about the conflict, here are  
some materials.


Preliminary Conclusions From The War In Georgia
August 13, 2008
By Andrei Illarionov

It is already possible to outline some theses related to the conflict  
between Russia and Georgia.


The war was a spectacular provocation that had been long prepared and  
successfully executed by the Russian "siloviki" -- those in government  
with connections to the military and security organs -- that almost  
entirely repeats in another theater at another time the "incursion of  
Basayev into Daghestan" and the beginning of the second Chechnya war  
in 1999.
Under the new situation, the idea of legitimizing the de facto loss of  
South Ossetia and Abkhazia may gain traction in Georgian society.
Georgia's military losses are greater than Russia's. But Russia's  
financial, foreign-policy, and moral losses are greater than Georgia's.
The Russian leadership did not achieve its main goals -- the ouster of  
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, a change of the political  
regime in Georgia, and Georgia's renunciation of its ambition to join  
NATO. In fact, the opposite has occurred.
Russia has been recognized internationally as an aggressor that sent  
its military into another UN member state. Georgia has been  
internationally acknowledged as a victim of aggression.
Russia is now in nearly complete international isolation. Russia's  
intervention in Georgia was backed only by Cuba. Neither Iran, nor  
Venezuela, nor Uzbekistan, nor even Belarus has said anything in  
support of Russia.
The political Group of Eight has de facto been transformed into a G7.  
The series of political defeats suffered by the Russian leadership,  
starting with the Rose Revolution in 2003, the Orange Revolution in  
Ukraine in 2004 and continuing through the NATO summit in Bucharest in  
April, has been extended by a new failure.
The main achievement of the Russian leadership -- which the modern  
world could not (or did not want to) believe -- is the resurrection of  
fear of the "Russian bear." The world will long remember its fear and  
(albeit temporary) helplessness.
Russian citizens, having no access to unofficial sources of  
information, found themselves in total informational isolation. The  
extent of the manipulation of public opinion and the extent to which  
society was brought to a state of mass hysteria are clear achievements  
of the regime and present an indubitable and unprecedented threat to  
Russian society.
An institutional catastrophe in Russia -- which has already been much  
discussed -- is continuing before our eyes. The main -- but not the  
only -- victims of this catastrophe are the citizens of Russia.
The war has revealed the real faces of the so-called liberals and  
democrats in Russia, people who once criticized "post-imperial  
syndrome" but who hurried to rally to the authorities once the  
fighting began and who urged "onward to Tbilisi," and who are calling  
for bolstering the organs of the siloviki.
The only public organization in Russia whose members have been able to  
formulate diverse positions on the war -- many of which I disagree  
with on principle -- is the National Assembly. By doing so, even  
during a time of crisis, the assembly demonstrated that at the present  
time it is the best structure to fill the role of proto-parliament.
The war once again confirmed the correctness of the most important  
principles of the moral conduct of Russian citizens in relation to the  
current authorities in the country: Don't believe. Don't fear. Don't  
ask. And don't cooperate.










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