Thursday, August 21, 2008

VALERY GERGIEV CONDUCTS CONCERT FOR TSKHINVALI VoicesFromRussia: "In the opinion of the prominent conductor Valery Gergiev, 'Russia did everything it could to save the people of South Ossetia from complete extermination'. Today, on 21 August, Maestro Gergiev and the Orchestra of St Petersburg's Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theatre are playing on a makeshift open-air stage in the central square of the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali to pay tribute to the memories of those who suffered in the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia. It shall be broadcast live at 20.00 Moscow time (16.00 GMT, 12.00 EDT) on the main Russian television networks and on the Internet. Amongst the performers who will sing surrounded by the ruins are world opera stars Anna Netrebko and Dmitri Khvorostovsky. Like millions of people worldwide, the Russian performers see the conflict as an act of genocide that had to be stopped immediately." Kanal1 (Click on the thumbnail photo on the upper right) More. Video on YouTube. 10:06:01 PM

ILLEGAL TRAFFIC EuroRus: "Moscow intends to send an official request to Kiev to identify Ukrainian diplomatic license plates discovered by Russian intelligence officers at a Georgian military base, Russia's NATO envoy said Friday. 'We do not know what they were intended for, we are merely stating a fact,' Dmitry Rogozin said. The suspicious discovery, which could signal that Ukraine was involved in the recent conflict in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia, was made in Senaki, in western Georgia. Col.-Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chef of Russia's General Staff, reported earlier in the day that Russian reconnaissance officers in Abkhazia had spotted a large number of cars with license plates of Ukrainian diplomats." WorldContentNews: "Nach dem Aufsehen erregenden Beitrag des ARD-Magazins 'Report Mainz' über deutsche Sturmgewehre in Georgien haben Rüstungsexperten bestätigt, dass diese Waffen trotz Exportverbot schon seit Jahren in Georgien im Einsatz sind. Auf welchem Wege aber gelangten sie dort hin? World.Content.News hat entsprechende Flugspuren der CIA nach Tiflis von der Firma 'Devon Holding' aus dem Jahr 2005 entdeckt." Translation: "After the remarkable broadcast of ARD-Magazin's 'Report Mainz' about German assault rifles [G36-K Heckler & Koch] in Georgia, armament experts have confirmed that these weapons have been used in Georgia for years while there was an export ban on them. How did they get there? WorldContentNews has discovered relevant CIA flight patterns to Tbilisi by Devon Holding, dating from 2005. Merkel, of course, denies. But it seems these rifles were used to shoot civilians in South Ossetia. It is certain that the export ban was breached. 10:09:33 AM

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