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Am primit un mass-email - si cum (evident!) nu practic sportul ästa, dar continutul meritä atentie, îl reproduc aici:
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"Vlad Angheleanu" <angheleanuv@gmail.com>
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08/19/2008 04:11 <angheleanuv@gmail.com>
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Subject: o tragedie in fata ochilor nostri... :(
Din pacate Westul este impotent. Gura mare dar lipsesc dintii. NATO, Europa Unita, ONU nu fac nimic sa apere biata Georgie. Iar miine, poate fi Bulgaria, Ungaria sau Romania in pozitia Georgiei. Rusii pregatesc un atac
impotriva Poloniei in viitorul apropiat. Iar noi (SUA) pregatim atacul
nuclear impotriva Iranului.
Ma tem (si vreau sa fiu pozitiv) ca sa aproprie un nou Razboi Mondial (cu
arme nucleare). Sa dea Dumnezeu sa ma insel.
Este extraordinar cit de obraznici si agresivi sunt rusii, cu vechile lor
metode de deformare a adevarului, cu forta si cinism, distrugind cit mai
mult. Se repeta oare cotropirea ruseasca? Lumea sta cu bratele incrucisate iar rusii joaca aceeasi carte cu care au inmarmurit lumea dupa al doilea razboi cind au format lagarul comunist, sau cind au intrat samavolnic in 1956 in Ungaria si in 1968 in Cehoslovacia. Este de necrezut. Cit va dura oare aceasta mostruoasa situatie? Regimul comunist s-a distrus printr-o implozie, unui crah economic. Regimul actual rusesc s-a imbogatit pe seama Occidentului si acum, cu mijloace moderne, a reinceput cuceriri de teritorii. Oare nu exista o revolta interioara a tuturor tarisoarelor subjugate? Abhazia, cu Osetia, cu Cecenia si ceilalti islamici? De necrezut. Asa a fost impertinenta nemteasca care a nascut razboiul doi. Nu exista un sistem de autoaparare a Europei dupa atita experienta tragica? Ce se intimpla in lumea aceasta? Soljenitin a murit uitat de majoritatea Rusiei, acest lacom imperiu.
Russian soldiers take prisoners in Georgia port
By BELA SZANDELSZKY, Associated Press Writer August 19, 2008
Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgians in military uniform prisoner at a
key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and
holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting
shipment back to the United States.
The move came as a small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the strategic city of Gori in the first sign of a Russian pullback of
troops from Georgia after a cease-fire intended to end fighting that
reignited Cold War tensions.
The two countries on Tuesday also exchanged prisoners. However, Russian soldiers also seized Georgians in Poti — the country's key oil port city — and commandeered four U.S. Humvees that had been used in U.S.-Georgian military exercises.
It was the latest example of Russia still demonstrating its military
prowess, leaving Georgians to wonder if Russia planned an extended military occupation or was still inflicting punishment before adhering to a promised troop withdrawal.
At an emergency meeting in Brussels, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her 25 NATO counterparts demanded that Russia immediately withdraw its troops from Georgia, a U.S. ally that wants to join NATO.
"It is time for the Russian president to keep his word to withdraw Russian
forces," Rice told a news conference.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lashed back, telling a hastily
gathered news conference that the alliance was supporting an aggressive
Georgia.
NATO "is trying to make a victim of the aggressor, to absolve of guilt a
criminal regime, to save a collapsed regime; and is taking a course to
rearm the current leaders of Georgia," Lavrov said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told French President Nicolas Sarkozy by phone Tuesday that Russian troops will withdraw from most of Georgia by Friday, the Kremlin said — some to Russia, others to South Ossetia and a surrounding "security zone" set in 1999.
In Poti, Russian forces blocked access to the city's naval and commercial
ports on Tuesday morning and towed the missile boat Dioskuria, one of the navy's most sophisticated vessels, out of sight of observers. A loud
explosion was heard minutes later. Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman
Shote Utiashvili said the Russian military blew up the Dioskuria.
Several hours later, an Associated Press photographer saw Russian trucks
and armored personnel carriers leaving the port with about 20 blindfolded
and handcuffed men riding on them.
Poti Mayor Vano Taginadze said the Russians seized 22 military and police
troops because the Georgians refused to let Russian armored vehicles enter the port. The Georgians were taken to the nearby Senaki military base, now controlled by Russia.
There were conflicting reports from Georgian officials late Tuesday on
whether the men were freed, or some were still detained, or all were to be
released Wednesday.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said officials were looking into the
reported theft of the Humvees.
The deputy head of Russia's general staff, Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn,
said Russian forces plan to remain in Poti until a local administration is
formed, but did not give further details. He also justified previous
seizures of Georgian soldiers as necessary to crack down on soldiers who
were "out of any kind of control ... acting without command."
An AP television crew has seen Russian troops in and around Poti all week,
with local port officials saying the Russians had destroyed radar, boats
and other Coast Guard equipment there.
A Georgian official also said Russians were slowing down food aid shipments to Poti.
"Right now there are Russian soldiers and tanks at Poti," Georgian Finance
Minister Nika Gilavri said. "They want to open every single container" and
inspect them.
Russian troops last week drove Georgian forces out of South Ossetia, where Georgia on Aug. 7 launched a heavy artillery barrage in the separatist Georgian province with close ties to Russia. Fighting also has flared in a second Russian-backed separatist region, Abkhazia.
The short war has driven tensions between Russia and the West to some of their highest levels since the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.
ensions also have flared between Ukraine and Russia amid fears that Moscow might next set sights on Ukraine, another ex-Soviet republic whose government is seeking NATO membership.
The two countries sparred Tuesday over Russia's use of naval base in the
port of Sevastopol, which it is renting from Ukraine. The Kremlin has made
it clear it wants the Russian ships to remain in Sevastopol even when the
current lease agreement expires in 2017.
Ukraine's pro-Western President, Victor Yushchenko, sided with Georgia in
its conflict with Russia and moved to restrict the movement of Russian
ships in the port, saying the vessels' movements were subject to Kiev's
approval.
Ukraine's foreign minister, Volodymyr Ohryzko, later sought to cool
tensions and said that Ukraine will not physically prevent Russian ships
from entering and leaving the naval base.
Meanwhile in central Georgia, a small column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles left Gori, and a Russian officer said they were heading back to South Ossetia and then Russia. Col. Igor Konoshenkov, a Russian military officer at the scene, gave no timetable for when the unit would reach Russia.
But other Russian troops and military vehicles remained in and around Gori following the pullout. A cease-fire requires both Georgia and Russia to
return to positions held before the fighting began.
"It didn't take them really three or four days to get into Georgia, and it
really shouldn't take them three or four days to get out," Gordon Johndroe, a spokesman for the National Security Council, told reporters in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush is spending time at his ranch.
"It needs to happen faster; that's what they've agreed to," Johndroe said.
Russia's foreign minister called a snap news conference in Moscow to
respond to Tuesday's remarks by NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop
Scheffer, who accused Russia of occupying Georgia and said "there can be no business as normal under the current circumstances."
Lavrov said Russian withdrawal depended "first of all, on the return of
Georgian troops" to their permanent bases.
"This still hasn't happened. Every day several episodes still occur when
our servicemen detain Georgian troops" who haven't returned to their bases as agreed, he said.
Also Tuesday, Russia and Georgia exchanged 20 prisoners of war in an effort to reduce tensions. Two Russian military helicopters landed in Igoeti,
where Georgian Security Council head Alexander Lomaia told reporters that 15 Georgians and five Russians were exchanged. "It went smoothly," he said.
The operation also witnessed by Russian Maj. Gen. Vyacheslav Borisov, who commands troops in the area.
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Plus niste articole interesante din "România liberä" de azi:
http://www.romanialibera.ro/a132319/georgia-a-cazut-in-capcana-rusa.html
http://www.romanialibera.ro/a132320/nato-si-a-regasit-fermitatea-fata-de-rusia.html
http://www.romanialibera.ro/a132215/timosenko-agentul-moscovei.html