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Georgia violated UN constitution He must have said it differently as UN doesn't have any constitution. UN chapter says that member countries must respect each other's sovereignity and territorial integrity, something that Russia no doubt has blatantly violated. A German proposal about the investigat...

I prefer to be on my own side of the truth Well, there is Sergey Kovalev, a representative of human rights group, who has said regarding the Russian invasion of Georgia - 'There are Russian national interests and the truth, and I support the latter'. It's not a quote but this is a content of what h...

The New York Times has been investigating the beginning of this war:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/world ... &ref=world

ok, if the word 'Putinist' is so offensive (just wondering why - Stalin's supporters are called Stalinists), is 'Putinoid' anyhow better?

It came to my mind now that Putinists call their ex-monarchs God-sent saints , even announced Nikolas II as such, so any revolt against them is considered a blaphemy.
Tragladit? Your command of English impresses me indeed.

Forgot to put some smilies. Apparently the free spirit of Dekabrists, Tolstoy and Sakharov has finally died out in Russia and no one is left to oppose a monstreous propaganda machine which is a proud successor of totalitarian Soviet system. Ingushatia will definitely gain independence provided it ke...

By the way, general Troshev was on bourd. A hero of Chechen war. What an interesting world we're living in: the most brutal Russian general, notorious for directly supervising the massacre of tens of thousand innocent civilians in Chechnya is called hero. While a killer of one man goes to jail, why...

The Russian armed forces stationed along the Enguri river dividing Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia were called peacekeepers under the UN mandate but they've never been such in reality. If this term means separation of warrior sides and prevention of further hostile actions, Russia didn't play an im...

laws of jungle are in force for almost 10 years

10 years, or to be more precise almost 9, since Putin came to power, right?

No, given that the notorious butcher of Chechnya died in crash.

Welcome back to a law of jungle where whoever is stronger does whatever he wants!!!

If someone upsets me, I should try to make a revenge on him, not on you I guess... And still how about Ingushetia (this is a subject anyway)? I'm wondering whether personally you'd be equally enthusiastic to support their independence or since Russia is now concerned, now you put a principle of terr...

See you justify everything your govt does. Similarly many Soviet citizens were believing whatever leaders were saying regarding their criminal invasions of Eastern European countries or Afghanistan (they regretted later on though). Nothing much has changed since then apart from the ideology... I men...

Governments lie everywhere to justify their dirty business especially when it concerns a war. We're endowed with brain to sort out where the truth might be in certain situations. Getting back to the Caucasian war, after what the Russian military have committed well beyond the conflict areas pls don'...

Kosovo was indeed a first step in undermining the international rules existed since the WW2. But it's not an excuse to follow suit elsewhere. Mistakes need not to be repeated, but rectified. Otherwise all countries from Turkey eastwards up to China have separatist movements, and such policy of recog...

Control over the govt?! Democratic institutions have not been developed at such an extent, visa versa, leaders both in Moscow and Tbilisi have usurped the whole authority and appointed puppets in all government branches who, regardless of what foolish or criminal orders come from upstairs, obey and ...