Music | August 22, 2008 | 26 comments

Russia protecting South Ossetia from Georgia says renowned conductor

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103476.html?nav=rss...

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"We are here so that the world will know the truth," Valery Gergiev, conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, explained to the crowd of several hundred why he had come to South Ossetia, the breakaway Georgian territory whose capital is Tskhinvali. "We have to remember those who died the tragic death from Georgian aggression."

Long-simmering tensions exploded two weeks ago when Georgian troops first shelled, then stormed South Ossetia, which had for years operated largely autonomously. The Russian army drove them back and now occupies vast swaths of Georgian territory.

The concert, before an audience of families, soldiers and a conspicuous number of journalists, was beamed across the region on Russian television. It was the capstone of a day filled with sometimes powerful, sometimes dubious, always heavy-handed messages, carefully choreographed by a Moscow public relations machine that has struggled to win international support during the current conflict.

The surreal day began in the Georgian village of Karaleti, where a Russian official accused Georgians of having torched their compatriots' homes. It ended with classical music in the South Ossetian capital, which local politicians call "the Stalingrad of the Caucasus," a reference to the Russian city destroyed, but held, during World War II.
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So, the truth comes out. Russia was protecting citizens against an aggression from Georgian government. The lies and misinformation we receive is terrible. There has to be a better way of the major media disseminating information, a more unbiased approach. Any ideas....anyway the story above continues at
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26 comments // Russia protecting South Ossetia from Georgia says renowned conductor

  • bklyndodgerfan
  • sublimeuniverse
  • Marilynn_Murray
  • RonenA
  • RonenA
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      RonenA  

    • This war started when Georgia invaded South Ossetia but they claim they did so to stop the shellings they had been receiving. If Georgia is telling the truth, then it seems to me that South Ossetia is at fault for this war. Whether they are telling the truth or not, we may never find out.

    • 3 years ago
  • MeganMcKenzie
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      MeganMcKenzie  

    • Marilynn you said it so well. Eisenhower for all his faults and truths saw clearer than anyone when he warned our Republic's greatest challenge would come from the military industrial complex.

      I see little to suggest that anyone from any country should be casting stones..... Invasion is wrong as is genocide, homicide, torture, greed, lying, and destroying nature. It is rarely the individual of a country that causes this wholesale betrayal and destruction. Yet it is the collective of the "powers that be" than bring destruction thereby diminishing each of us.

      I continue to believe in an ideal where there is a place at the table for everyone and no one need hunger or thirst. (paraphrased from the book, "The Fifth Sacred Thing")

    • 3 years ago
  • Marilynn_Murray
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      Marilynn_Murray  

    • Read the foreign newspapers to find the truth. We encouraged Georgia to invade Ossetia. Because we knew Russia would stop them. We want to get the profitable cold war going again. Like Eisenhower said beware of the military industrial complex.

    • 3 years ago
  • Bren589
  • zahar76
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      zahar76  

    • Interesting thing: people like to talk about how liefully the fighting countries is. But this people's meaning is based only on media messages. Media is liars in itself. So why to blame the countries, just blame media for misinterpret (or stright lying) of information.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • Vierotchka:

      Right. Which means this person's opinion is of no more important than those one would talk to on the street....which someone should do more so than "famous" people. Because they don't suffer nearly as much if there is that much suffering to suffer.

    • 3 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • zahar76
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • J_Jammer:

      If he was a bum on the street there wouldn't be an article about what he had to say.

      Which means what he has to say isn't nearly as important as the title he's given. Fact is subjective. Truth is not. You are stating someone's word is more powerful than someone else when there's no backing for thinking that.

      It is questionable, now, what anyone has to say on this matter...Russia says they are pure. Georgia says they are pure.

      Both are lying.

      Who is lying more is the one that has the most to gain.

      Russia.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • J_Jammer
  • zahar76
  • Vierotchka
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • J_Jammer:

      No one should get away with it. No one really has the right to enter another country to do anything. America was wrong and so is Russia. There's no justifying it.

      This entire notion that American news covers up what is going on is almost too huge to be right. I'm not stating that it's not possible that some news is just for the Americans to be pleased...but that's what all countries do, including Russia and China and the like.

      But to state that it's totally blinding everyone is massive statement and makes people way smarter than they are not and I don't like giving that to people.

      I think Russia is probably being mistreated for their past dealings, but I don't think they are pure by any means.

    • 3 years ago
  • zahar76
  • Emil_G
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      Emil_G  
    • J_Jammer:

      Thinking in catch-alls is not good, J_hammer. That's why you are wrong most of the time. No one should go into any "country" to do anything? Ever? Really? Think about it.

    • 3 years ago
  • Vierotchka
  • J_Jammer
  • Vierotchka
  • victimofcoal
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      victimofcoal  

    • NPR reported Russia blew-up a pipeline of some sort 6 days before the invasion. American media makes it hard to get the facts straight.
      All the White house tough talk is bulshit , .

    • 3 years ago
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