Comments on: Russian might dampens Georgian ambitions

By: nikoloz

nikoloz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:11:33 +0000

i am from Georgia and i live near Asetia and i say that i am very very tired of my countrys all presidents and there politic. i start my life about five time and still everything going like it was 10 years ago! very bad. here in georgia everyone seats on there suitcases for going in abroad like me too, beacause we all are tired of this politics and stupit politicans like in russion but what is more bad nobody welcome us and we are like in warprisons( i meane people like me not with big money, but stronger in life) . for me it is no problems with russions i have russion friend and i was in comlict places because i was in militery for a long time

thank you

By: The Shrink

The Shrink — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:45:10 +0000

To Ragnar

Why the US does not recognize Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda instead of sealing them off from outside world and exterminating the population of Iraq and Afghanistan with indiscriminate bombings?

By the way, the guys who ruled Chechnya at the time in question were sponsored by Osama bin Laden and were part of Al Qaeda as well. During the years of de-facto independence then Chechen leaders were kidnapping, torturing, and killing the people of Chechnya, Russia and many European countries for no particular reason but for money. Beheading was one of the most conventional things. I still can’t forget the pictures of the heads of those poor bastards from a telecom company from the UK who were kidnapped in Chechnya and beheaded because the company refused to pay for them. The terror was indescribable everywhere across the country and no one could be safe. So the reason why the Chechens live now with Russia is that most of Chechens think it's best for them, otherwise the war would still continue, Chechen worriers are the best I’ve ever seen and Russia failed to defeat them in the first Chechen war.

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:14:42 +0000

Russia should have recognized Chechnya first instead of sealing it off from outside world and exterminating its population with indiscriminate bombings.

By: George

George — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:06:34 +0000

Using GRAD launchers against a sleeping city is as barbaric as using a chemical weapon. That weapon was created for bombarding an approximate AREA and not a designated target. So I totally believe there were more than 2000 victims. They have a word for it, and the word is "Genocide".

By: Kevin Zhang

Kevin Zhang — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:11:45 +0000

Can CNN please tell the public the truth who fired first and do not mislead general public?

By: Max

Max — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:48:23 +0000

2 Ragnar
reading about bombing was pretty interesting. Living in an apartment block iin Moscow I am kind of keenly interested in the subject :)

Imagine a british military caught by IRA militants and speakng to a camera saying it was british intelligence services who planned the bombing of public buildings in London.

Imagine an american captured by islamic militants in Iraq saying that it he knows it for sure was CIA (jointly with FBI) who planned the 09/11. I guess he would also say that he is treated well by his captors.

it's not funny. you are trying to find one reason for all bad things that happened. the excuse for second invasion to Chechnya was not really the explosions but the islamic radicals' raid from Chechnya to Daghestan. Or did the russians planned the raid as well? Or did they plan the Georgian attack on Tskhinvali? What is the next thing russians are planning? Democrats winning the presidential campaign?, I guess. 50 years ago you could be declared a public enemy and a communist agent for not being a loyal republican, in the US, or same thing (vice versa) you could be public enemy to soviet people and an american agent if you just say something that was not completely in line with Stalin's propaganda. Too simple and not too funny.
Do not be blinded. Try to see the bigger picture. If Russians acknowledged the independence of S.Ossetia – to me that only means that U.S. secretly consented to this. It US intervened to Iraq and Afghanistan – that only meant that Russians consented to this secretly which they later repeated publicly. The pie is divided. War is over.

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:28:17 +0000

I don’t trust Russian state controlled media when it spreads informations about so called ethnic conflicts in Georgia. This is just excuse to invade another country. Read publications about how Putin’s agents masterminded explosions of residential buildings in Moscow to create a pretext for Chechnya invasion. This is the same thing Nazis did in Germany in 1930s.

http://www.tjetjenien.dk/baggrund/bombs.html

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:14:20 +0000

Citizen of Georgia,

I'jist wondering, whether the the government of the country has legal rights to kill those civilians who don't want to belong to that country. And, btw, even BBC now admitted that it wasn't the Russians looting. From what i've read it is the georgians themselves and ossetians (the civilians, saying: you did that to my home, i'll do that to yours...

By: Lela Abramishvili

Lela Abramishvili — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:32:17 +0000

I am Georgian and I know only one thing for sure. We have refugees from Apkhazia and Osetia. Let them return on their land and then let these population decide how to live – within or apart from Georgia. The fact is that people who is now requiring independence are people who were instructionally settled on the historical territory of Georgia many years ago and this was inspired by Russia in order to escalate this conflict after decades and win new areas of its influence with the help of people like Osetians and Apkhazs. Georgia is hosting many other nations within its boundaries. If each of these nations started requseting independence and claiming that this is their territory what would happen? there would be no Georgia at all – and this would be response for the hospitality Georgia showed to these nations. Now I understand it was an incorrect policy from Georgian side to let all these people onto its territory.

By: Citizen of Georgia

Citizen of Georgia — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:13:05 +0000

Nataly – you mention that Russia is actually helping ... very vague... Do you mean helping to feed Russian army with looted stuff from all over Georgia?

Russia had no right to invade the country, no internatioal treaty allows what Russia did in Georgia, even when they claim that Russia came to protect Russian Peace Keepers (which by the way are supposed to be CIS peace keepers) and Russian Citizens. Even then, Russia did not have any right to bomb various territories in Georgia and starting robbing different places.

I am just amazed that you dare to call this "helping"