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Sources of good info on Russian-Georgian conflict

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Saturday August 09, 2008 00:49

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If only they had a local indy site!

Amidst the fog of war, and lack of media on the ground, it's anybody's guess as to what is actually going on there at the minute. It is claimed that Russian aircraft attacked military and other targets in Georgia (Russia denies any such attacks happened, and Georgia claims to have shot down some of the aircraft) and a large number of Russian tanks has crossed the border. Each side claims the other fired the first shot.

The usual fog of war has arisen, but it seems there's defintely some deception going on.
Georgia claims to have shot down Russian combat aircraft attacking Georgia, - which Russia deny were there - and the media reports that the Georgian military drove into South Ossetia
(while the Georgians say they were demanding an end to the Russian attacks)
and the Russians happened to have amassed a column of tanks fuelled up and ready to roll in. - Meanwhile, most people are watching the Olympics.

The Russian Foreign Minister is crying crocodile tears for civilians and the trouble that relief organisations have helping people during conflicts.
Now, the president of Georgia is saying he will agree to immediate ceasefire, mediation and observer peacekeepers (not Russian military, presumably).

Anybody got any good analysis of what's going on there. I knew that the Georgians were being rather stubborn about granting independence but they were talking about an independent republic much like two other areas already have. They also claim that the people who claim to be running an independent South Ossetia, are Russian agents, installed by the Kremlin.

If only they had in indymedia in that neck of the woods! The closest one seems to be Armenia (http://armenia.indymedia.org/ ), which won't load for me at the minute.

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Comments (32 of 32)

#	Title	Author	Date
1	The roots of this conflict	Jim	Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:37
2	Georgia to withdraw 2,000 troops from Iraq	redjade	Sat Aug 09, 2008 13:10
3	Useful compilation of sources of info here	not 1 of	Sat Aug 09, 2008 15:52
4	Another set of information links	not 1 of	Sat Aug 09, 2008 16:18
5	Sorting out disinformation & awaiting local comments.	satsuma	Sat Aug 09, 2008 17:56
6	Strategic interest?	qui bono	Sat Aug 09, 2008 22:01
7	Postman Patel	Hugh Briss	Sat Aug 09, 2008 22:35
8	ceasefire pleas by Georgia.	done & dusted	Sun Aug 10, 2008 17:13
9	USA accuses Russia of wanting to depose Georgian Government.	-	Sun Aug 10, 2008 21:37
10	more shtuff	jm	Sun Aug 10, 2008 22:59
11	more	pat c	Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:50
12	Military conflict between Russia and Georgia escalates‏	pat c	Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:58
13	Long time planned. Public in the dark.	clearasmud	Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:00
14	wars in the pipeline...	oiladdict	Mon Aug 11, 2008 14:38
15	sometimes, it's easier to draw it than write about it.	Jaque De Ladd	Mon Aug 11, 2008 14:49
16	pointer : intelligent discussion	jm	Mon Aug 11, 2008 15:13
17	The Daily Mail started the "pipeline" war thing yesterday. It's Georgian propaganda.	Ivan	Mon Aug 11, 2008 15:27
18	How impartial is the "World Socialsit" site?	Sceptic	Mon Aug 11, 2008 16:15
19	oil and minorities.	O I C	Mon Aug 11, 2008 17:32
20	Georgia/Russia conflict brings disaster for working people of region	CWI	Mon Aug 11, 2008 17:45
21	Russia has taken largest Georgian military base. Ireland speaks!	ivan	Mon Aug 11, 2008 18:53
22	Pre-planned action.	i-bawl	Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:10
23	Russia has ceased operations.	ivan	Tue Aug 12, 2008 15:20
24	the spin on peace begins as Sarko talks to Moscow & Georgia still holds hope of US help.	ivan	Tue Aug 12, 2008 21:57
25	a lose-lose situation...	redjade	Wed Aug 13, 2008 01:00
26	"back to the old world order" is neither win-win nor lose-lose - just the stabilty of stalemate.	ivan	Wed Aug 13, 2008 19:26
27	keep an eye on Azerbaijan ...	Baku Boyo	Wed Aug 13, 2008 19:35
28	if it was about Russian aggression (which it aint) then Azerbaijan is different.	ivan	Wed Aug 13, 2008 20:47
29	whole lot of thinking to do now...	Baku Boy	Wed Aug 13, 2008 22:46
30	Like a game of Risk....	redjade	Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:32
31	follow up on the cyber attacks -	ivan	Thu Aug 14, 2008 16:33
32	Yeah .. . . right	Hugh Briss	Thu Aug 14, 2008 17:58

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