133 - that is the number of identified corps.

“S.Ossetian officials” - which are Kremlin puppets, can insist upon whatever number they choose - but unless they have some proof to show - their arguments will be valid only for the Russian biased audience.

I do not think there is “a normative of victims”, to follow by the Russian agressors when they feel like killing and looting. Any number would go.

The point is that the officials manipulated the information about the number of casualities, as they did with all other information. They can not be trusted, and they are not.

You mean the interviewed on the FOX channel “US citizens” - a 12 years girl and her aunt? The interview, which was later manipulated by the Russian TV?

By the way, the mentioned “US citizen” have earlier lied to the US Immigration, and for this particular reason was even deported from the US in 1996.

Once a lier, always a lier.

The only UN involvement in Georgia was UNOMIG -the observing (not peacekeeping!) mission in Abhazia (not Ossetia!).

You lied about this particular issue like you lied about everything else in your posts here. But, I hope, your lies are less efficient with better informed western audiences, who are able to look for information by themselves, instead of just believing what Russian propagandists tell them.

“Maskirovka” in Russian means “a disguise” or “a camouflage”, and certainly not a chess term.

Crimea was a Russian territory since 13-th century and just in 1959 Nikita Khrushchev decided to give it to Ukraine in commemoration of 300-th anniversary of Ukraine joining Russian Empire (seeking protection from Poland, btw).

1) I couldn’t find such article in the reference you supplied. None of witnesses have ever doubt that Georgia was shelling Tskhinvali on Aug.7. So, the answer to your first question is, - NO, it’s a lie.

2) 1492 is a number that S.Ossetian officials insist on. 133 is just what the Red Cross have managed to identify. Nevertheless, I think that 133 civilian deaths is enough to justify Russian actions. How about 30,000 refugees? There is not a single confirmed civilian killed by Russian army (btw., your language is inappropriate here). So, civilian casualties S.Ossetia - 133-1492, Georgia - they do not separate civilians from soldiers at bodycount, probably - 0.
Although you lie about 40,000 civilians deaths in Chechnya (that was a number of refugees), but I admit that Gorbachev-Eltsin’s inept moves in Chechnya makes nowadays Russian government’s moral ground a bit shaken.

3) You’re lying again, - Russia does have mandate from UN and among 3 peacekeeping battalions one was from Georgia.

4) No it is not true. There are many witnesses to it (including US citizens).

5) It took two days for Russian army to overpower Georgian forces in Tskhinvali.

And S. Ossetia rebelled, when in 1991 Z.Gamsahurdia (not sure about correct spelling) decided to remove their autonomy by force. Russia did not arm anyone, at the time Russian government had their hands full with crisis and Chechnya.

The western reader would have known that, if western media representatives were not restricted from going to the town of Tskhinvali by the Russian Red Army. What are you, Russians, hiding in the town of Tskhinvali? Is it the truth that the city was not destroyed as much as you claimed? Is it another lie, compared to the one about 2000 civilians, which proved to be 133?

5. What would you do (were you a military general) if you need to protect your solders and civilian citizens of your country? Don’t you think that Russian swift reinforcement has prevented even more victims? Georgian forces has just stepped back as it was useless to fight. So actually the long running bloody turmoil has been prevented.

The point is that as a military general you had neither the legal right to be there, nor the authority to protect whoever by invading and loooting another country. There are hundreds of ways to protect your citizens (including the ones living on your own territory) without shooting the innocent civilians, citizens of another country.

As a peacekeeper, you have the mission to enforce a ceasefire, not the mission to protect the side which you think to be “the good guys”. Georgians would have never applied force if the Russians wouldn’t have armed the ossetians and encouraged them to shoot upon georgian villages since early 90s.

It is Russia who started this bloody turmoil - long before the 8th of August.

No, it is not. You can see the articles in Komsomol’skaia pravda (a Russian newspaper, http://www.kp.ru) in the week commencing 1 August. One of the articles was entitled “Ossetia ready to attack georgian towns”. In another, Kokoity was very proud of an attack of ossetians over georgians. He was also saying that there are 30 thousand ossetians who are ready for war with Georgia. What you are saying is pure soviet styled lie.

2. Is this true that lots of civilians has been murdered on that day? (August 7th)

Although the newly Soviet propaganda manipulated the figure of 2000 civilians murdered, later it appeared that only 133 corpes were identified. This is less then the civilians killed by Russian army of barbarians and looters in Georgian cities of Gori and Poti. But this figure of 2000 was used as an excuse for the military intervention in Georgia.

I would also remind you of 40 thousand civilians killed in Cechenya, and about the city of Groznyi, which was also heavily attacked by heavy artillery.

3. Is this true that Russian peace-keeping troops (who has the authority from UN) has been attacked and murdered as well?

The Russian troops in Ossetia NEVER had the UN peacekeeping mandate, neither they had a mandate from any other international organisation. Moreover, Georgian Parliament have always seen them as an occupation force, and demanded many times that they should leave its territory. They were NOT peacekeepers nither according to the letter of the law, nor to the spirit of the law, as they were NEVER neutral, and were taking the side of ossetians and arming them. The “peacekeepers” in Georgia were always an occupation force, and what happened in August have only provided a proof for that. They were in fact, “war keepers” - doing everything possible to keep the conflict alive.

By the way, UN peacekeepers are often attacked and killed in many places of the world, and NEVER this was seen as a good enough reason to violate the borders of a souvereign state.

Even if the West is not perfect, it acts from good will and it provides for solutions.

Russia wants to copy the West, but it has no capacity to act as a global policemen. Instead, it acts like a global bully and alchoolic, and provides the whole world with a caricature of what the West has done in Kosovo or in Iraq.

Russia has no other argument except “Do it like they do it on Discovery channel”.