MEDIA WARS- SECOND REPORT IN TWO DAYS BY RUSSIAN MEDIA TARGETING WESTERN MEDIA.

Its the second time Russian media made a repost about western medias biased reporting . first report was about biased western reporting about 2008 osettian war( u can watch that report on this blog in archives of 10th august) wich was aired on RT on 10th august . below is the new report aired today by the same Russian news channel RT.

SOURCE-RT

On the first anniversary of the war in South Ossetia, many in the region are taking time to reflect. In the US, however, there’s almost no mention of the conflict, so heavily covered just a year ago.



It dominated the front pages of newspapers for weeks, playing a pivotal role in the presidential election.

Back then, candidate Obama and his opponent John McCain flexed their foreign policy muscles defending Georgia.

Never mind the fuzzy facts, Russia was seen as the aggressor in the court of public opinion, while Georgia was the little democracy that could.

One year later, the blanket reporting has halted. In Manhattan, the epicenter of the message and media capital of the country, there is no mention of South Ossetia on news tickers or plasma screens.

Health care, finance and Obama dictate the current news cycle, and the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict is just old news in the US.

And while the Caucasian country struggles to be rebuilt following Georgia’s invasion last August, the Americans are left in the dark about the anniversary.

Meanwhile, South Ossetia is not the only news story that the American media has dropped once it’s gone off the boil. The coup in Honduras and the conflict in Gaza have also slipped below the radar.

So the Americans shouldn’t be surprised that the domestic media has divorced itself from last year’s global story.

Medvedev proposes bill on troop deployment outside Russia

SOURCE-RIA-NOVOSTI
SOCHI, August 10 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's president said on Monday he had submitted a bill to parliament on the procedure for sending troops to fight outside the country's borders.
"This is linked to the events that took place a year ago," Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with the leaders of Russia's largest political parties.

August 7 was the first anniversary of a five-day war between Russia and Georgia over breakaway South Ossetia.




"Such issues must be clearly regulated," Medvedev said speaking in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi, which borders on Abkhazia, another former Georgian republic.

Russia's current 2006 legislation only allows the president to send troops to fight terrorism on foreign soil. Experts say the law lacks clearly defined terms of "wartime" and a "combat situation," which complicates the deployment of army units outside the country.

Russia sent in troops last summer to repel Georgia's offensive on South Ossetia, where Moscow had maintained peacekeepers since a bloody post-Soviet conflict in the early 1990s. Russia was condemned internationally over its "excessive" use of force and subsequent recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Russia after the war and declared the regions occupied territories. Russian officials said some 162 civilians and 67 Russian service personnel were killed in the conflict.

RUSSIAN MEDIA ACCUSES WESTERN MEDIA OF BIASED REPORTING.

A year ago a story on Georgia’s war against S.Ossetia filmed by a Russian cameraman was silenced on Polish TV because it was out of tune with the politicized official media line in the country
Russian media blamed western media of biasness during the osettian war. here is the report by RUSSIA TODAY a Russian english news chennel.

Georgia preparing for another war deserted Georgian soldier

A soldier who deserted the Georgian army and has now fled to Russia says US instructors are currently training Georgian soldiers for a war – just as they did before Georgia’s assault last year on South Ossetia. Reddit Eduard Korotkov also spoke about Georgia’s military provocations against Russian peacekeepers prior to the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict, the weapons that the US supplied to Georgia, and Georgians’ shooting of POWs during the conflict.
the video below is the interviev of the deserted soldier by Russia Today news channel.

Russia increases troops' alert in S Ossetia after Georgia's provocations

Russia has deployed its troops and border guards in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia on increased alert following provocations from Georgia, Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported on Tuesday.
"The situation is really worrisome, provocations from the Georgian side on the eve of the anniversary of the August events last year are continuing," Andrei Nesterenko, spokesman for Russian Foreign Ministry, said in a statement posted on the ministry's website.
"In this regard, combat readiness of Russian military and border guards in South Ossetia has been enhanced," he said.
Nesterenko also said Russia will do everything possible to prevent escalation of tensions.
Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Dmitry Medoyev said that regional law enforcement agencies have also been put on high alert.
"South Ossetia's law enforcement agencies and services have been put on high alert before the mourning events, which will take place on August 7-10," the Interfax news agency quoted Medoyev as telling reporters.
Tensions in the border area between Georgia and South Ossetia were heightened days before the first anniversary of Georgia's brief war with Russia in August last year.

While Georgia accused South Ossetia of shooting at Georgian villages, South Ossetian authorities said the suburbs of its capital of Tskhinvali were attacked by Georgian mortars. No one was hurt in the shootings.
The Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday warned of using military force to defend South Ossetia "in case of further provocations threatening the republic's population and the Russian military contingent stationed in South Ossetia."
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin also said on Tuesday that the ministry is concerned over actions by Georgia's leadership to remilitarize the country.
"We are deeply concerned by the actions of Georgia's leadership to remilitarize the country, which have met a surprisingly calm and even a positive response in some countries," Karasin said.
Russia would "continue to oppose the (Georgian President Mikhail) Saakashvili regime's rearmament" and was taking "concrete measures to prevent it," he added.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Tbilisi's rule during a war in the 1990s that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Russia and Georgia fought a five-day war last summer, when Georgia attacked South Ossetia to retake the renegade region that borders Russia. In response, Moscow sent in troops to drive Georgian forces out of the region.
Russia recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states two weeks after the conflict ended.