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  • CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

    1 hour ago: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, seen during an interview with CNN in Moscow on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Putin has suggested the United States pushed Georgia toward war and said he suspects a connection to the American presidential campaign. At left is CNN correspondent Matthew Chance.







    SOCHI, Russia (CNN) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates.

    In an exclusive interview with CNN's Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi Thursday, Putin said the U.S. had encouraged Georgia to attack the autonomous region of South Ossetia.
    Putin told CNN his defense officials had told him it was done to benefit a presidential candidate -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are competing to succeed George W. Bush -- although he presented no evidence to back it up.

    "U.S. citizens were indeed in the area in conflict," Putin said. "They were acting in implementing those orders doing as they were ordered, and the only one who can give such orders is their leader.
    White House spokeswoman Dana Perino blasted Putin's statements, saying they were "patently false."
    "To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate just sounds not rational," she said.

    U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood concurred, and labeled Putin's statements as "ludicrous."

    "Russia is responsible for the crisis," Wood said in an off-camera meeting with reporters in Washington on Thursday. "For the Russians to say they are not responsible for what happened in Georgia is ludicrous. ... Russia is to blame for this crisis and the world is responding to what Russia has done."
    When told that many diplomats in the United States and Europe blame Russia for provoking the conflict and for invading Georgia, Putin said Russia had no choice but to invade Georgia after dozens of its peacekeepers in South Ossetia were killed. He told Chance it was to avert a human calamity.
    The former Russian president, still considered the most powerful man in the country, said he was disappointed the U.S. had not done more to stop Georgia's attack.

    Putin recalled he was watching the situation in Georgia and South Ossetia unfold when he was at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8.

    He said he spoke to U.S. President George W. Bush, also attending, who told the Russian prime minister he didn't want war -- but Putin spoke to CNN of his disappointment that the U.S. administration didn't do more to stop Georgia early in the conflict.

    READ MORE -- http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe...=ib_topstories

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    From kremlin.ru:

    August 10, 2008 18:30
    Sunday

    Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Russian Federation Prosecutor General's Office Committee of Inquiry to document crimes committed in South Ossetia in order to prosecute the perpetrators.

    Mr Medvedev had a working meeting with Chairman of the Committee of Inquiry Alexander Bastrykin.

    Mr Bastrykin will fly to Vladikavkaz to coordinate work in the field on collecting documented evidence of crimes committed by Georgian forces in South Ossetia. This work has already begun. The Investigations Committee is sending another 150 criminal investigation specialists to reinforce the efforts underway. The evidence gathered will be used as the basis for future prosecution of the perpetrators of crimes.



    Working meeting with Chairman of the Russian Federation Prosecutor General’s Office Committee of Inquiry Alexander Bastrykin.

    Новости, стенограммы, фото и видеозаписи, документы, подписанные Президентом России, информация о деятельности Администрации

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      Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

      Putin blames US provocation

      By Charles Clover in Moscow and Daniel Dombey in Washington

      Published: August 28 2008 19:47 | Last updated: August 28 2008 19:47

      Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, on Thursday accused the US of provoking the conflict between Russia and Georgia, in the latest sign of escalating tensions between Moscow and Washington. The Bush administration dismissed his comments as “ludicrous”.

      “Why . . . seek a difficult compromise solution in the peacekeeping process?” asked Mr Putin in an interview on CNN. “It is easier to arm one of the sides and provoke it into killing another side. And the job is done . . . ”

      In an apparent allusion to John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, who has taken a tough line on Russia, Mr Putin said: “The suspicion arises that someone in the US especially created this conflict with the aim of making the situation more tense and creating a competitive advantage for one of the candidates fighting for the post of US president.” He added, in a reference to the presence of 130 US military advisers in Georgia: “The American side in effect armed and trained the Georgian army."

      On Thursday, Anatoly Nogovitsyn, the deputy head of Russia’s general staff, also held a press conference in Moscow to display a US passport belonging to a Michael Lee White which he said was found by Russian forces at a base previously used by Georgian commandos near the south Ossetian capitol of Tskhinvali.

      Dana Perino, spokeswoman for President George W. Bush, said Mr Putin’s claims were “patently false”, adding: “To suggest that the United States orchestrated this on behalf of a political candidate just sounds not rational.”

      But in a possible warning shot against US sanctions, Mr Putin also announced that 19 US poultry companies would be banned from exporting to Russia because of failed health and safety tests, CNN reported. Mr Putin said the decision was unconnected with the Georgian conflict, but warned 29 more companies could also be banned unless they improved their standards.

      READ MORE -- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e0b855f6-7...nclick_check=1



      America trained Georgian troops.

      From The Guardian:

      David, from the Georgian Secret Service, smiled as he spoke of the days he spent being trained in San Antonio, Texas, but stiffened when he admitted 'there is no guarantee that any of us are safe'. He added: 'We don't know when we can leave.'
      READ MORE -- http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002...sh.theobserver

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        From




        Putin smells a US rat in Georgia crisis

        August 30, 2008

        AS RUSSIA struggled to rally international support for its military action in Georgia, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has lashed out at the US, contending that the White House may have orchestrated the conflict to benefit one of the candidates in the presidential election.

        Putin's comments in a television interview, his most extensive to date on Russia's decision to send troops into Georgia earlier this month, sought to present the military operation as a response to brazen, Cold War-style provocations by the US.

        In tones that seemed alternately angry and mischievous, Putin suggested the Bush administration may have tried to create a crisis that would influence American voters in the choice of a successor to President George W Bush.

        "The suspicion would arise that someone in the United States created this conflict on purpose to stir up the situation and to create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency in the United States," Putin said in an interview with CNN.

        Putin did not specify which candidate he had in mind, but there was no doubt that he was referring to Republican Senator John McCain.

        McCain is loathed in the Kremlin because he has a close relationship with Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, and has called for imposing stiff penalties on Russia, including ejecting it from the Group of 8 industrialised nations.

        Putin offered scant evidence to support his assertion, and the White House called his comments absurd.

        But they underscored the depth of the rift between Moscow and Washington over the Georgia crisis, which flared three weeks ago when the Georgian military tried to reclaim a breakaway enclave allied with Russia.

        They also suggested that the Russian leader was deeply concerned about the possibility McCain, widely viewed here as having a strong bias against Russia, could become president.

        Russia has been struggling to persuade the outside world to back its action in Georgia.





        Putin blames US provocation

        But in a possible warning shot against US sanctions, Mr Putin also announced that 19 US poultry companies would be banned from exporting to Russia because of failed health and safety tests, CNN reported. Mr Putin said the decision was unconnected with the Georgian conflict, but warned 29 more companies could also be banned unless they improved their standards.

        READ MORE -- http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e0b855f6-7...nclick_check=1



        Russia bans poultry imports from 19 U.S. firms

        14:17 | 29/ 08/ 2008



        MOSCOW, August 29 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's agricultural regulator said on Friday that 19 U.S. poultry companies will be banned from exporting their products to Russia as of September 1 due to sanitary concerns.

        Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had mentioned plans to impose the ban on Thursday, but denied any link with ongoing political disputes.
        His statement came after the U.S. said it might scrap a civil nuclear deal with Russia as punishment for its military action in Georgia and recognition of Georgia's breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

        Rosselkhoznadzor said the decision was a result of a joint Russia-U.S. inspection of poultry firms in late July and early August.

        "The inspection also showed that many companies had not taken measures to remove flaws revealed during previous checks," the regulator said in a news release.
        Around 120 companies will remain on the list of suppliers to Russia, but the regulator said 29 other firms face the same ban unless they raise their standards.

        The United States is Russia's largest poultry supplier. The country has supplied 870,000 metric tons of the 1.2-million-metric-ton poultry quota set by Russia for 2008.
        Russia has imposed several temporary bans on pork and poultry from various U.S. producers in recent years. Up to late 2006, the issue was a major stumbling block in bilateral negotiations on Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization.

        The U.S. has strongly criticized Russia's recent actions in Georgia, in the three weeks since Tbilisi tried to seize control of South Ossetia and Russia launched a counterattack.

        Russia's agricultural regulator said on Friday that 19 U.S. poultry companies will be banned from exporting their products to Russia as of September 1 due to sanitary concerns.

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          Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War


          Vladimir Putin: At 23:30 the brigadier general commanding the Georgian peacekeeping forces announced that Georgia declared war against South Ossetia.

          They announced this publicly looking straight into TV cameras, and at that point we tried to contact the Georgian leadership but everyone refused to talk to us.
          At 12:45 on 8 August, the Georgian commander repeated his statements...

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            Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

            India knows about it.



            Georgia conflict initiated to benefit US Prez candidate: Putin

            New York, August 29: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the Bush administration of orchestrating the recent conflict in the Caucasus region to benefit one of its presidential election candidates, days after Moscow recognised two breakaway regions of Georgia as independent entities.

            Putin did not identify the candidate but analysts say he was apparently referring to Republican hopeful John McCain who is considered by Moscow as close to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

            "The suspicion would arise that someone in the United States created this conflict on purpose to stir up the situation and to create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency. They needed a small victorious war," Putin told CNN.

            In a first comprehensive interview with a western television network since Moscow sent troops to fight Georgian forces after they attacked South Ossetia, Putin sought to present the Russian action as a response to the brazen cold war style American encouragement to Georgia.
            Putin said his defence officials had told him it was done to influence American voters in the choice of a successor to President Bush, but the network said he presented no evidence to back it up.

            "US citizens were indeed in the area in conflict. They were acting in implementing those orders, doing as they were ordered, and the only one who can give such orders is their leader," Putin said.

            READ MORE -- http://www.expressindia.com/latest-n...e-Putin/354918


            Vladimir Putin:
            At 23:30 the brigadier general commanding the Georgian peacekeeping forces announced that Georgia declared war against South Ossetia.

            They announced this publicly looking straight into TV cameras, and at that point we tried to contact the Georgian leadership but everyone refused to talk to us.
            At 12:45 on 8 August, the Georgian commander repeated his statements...

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              Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

              09 Sep 05

              Vladimir Putin on Mount Athos pilgrimage



              Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited the monastic community of Mount Athos in Greece, one of Orthodox Christianity's holiest sites.
              He was the first Russian leader to visit the male-only community, on a narrow, rocky peninsula east of Thessaloniki, Russian TV reported.
              The trip was part of Mr Putin's two-day visit to Greece.
              He has openly embraced the Orthodox faith, despite having served the atheist Soviet regime as a KGB officer.






              The President of Russia Vladimir Putin in Karyes, Athos.




              Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called Άγιο Όρος (Ayion Oros or "Holy Mountain") in Modern Greek, or Ἅγιον Ὄρος (Hagion Oros) in Classical Greek. It is home to 20 Eastern Orthodox monasteries and forms an autonomous state under Greek sovereignty. Only monks are allowed to live on Athos and the current population numbers around 1,400. The peninsula, the easternmost "leg" of the larger Chalkidiki peninsula, protrudes into the Aegean Sea for some 60 km at a width between 7 to 12 km and covers an area of about 390 km², with the actual Mount Athos and its steep, densely forested slopes reaching up to 2,033 m.


              The seas around the end of the peninsula can be dangerous. Xerxes I had a channel excavated across the isthmus to allow the passage of his invasion fleet in 483 BC.


              Mythology

              In Greek mythology, Athos, one of the Gigantes, threw a mountain at Zeus, who knocked it to the ground near Macedonia. This mountain was the holy peak of Mount Athos.






              The President of Russia Vladimir Putin at the giant Bell of the Russian Monastery of Panteleimon, Athos.

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                Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

                Americans View Putin As A SuperMan


                Thank you, Jeff Rense...

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                  Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

                  Vladimir Putin threatens Europe over energy supply

                  Vladimir Putin has warned Europe that Russia's energy reserves will flow to the Far East if the continent's leaders seek to punish his country for invading Georgia.

                  The Russian prime minister travelled to Siberia to demand that work on a new pipeline to supply oil to Asia is speeded up.

                  In an echo of the photographs released last year that showed the bare-chested leader in a series of macho hunting poses, Mr Putin posed with a rifle for the cameras as scientists tranquilised a tiger at the Ussuri reserve.

                  The announcement on the eve of an emergency European Union summit in Brussels on Russia's occupation of Georgia put EU states on notice that Moscow is developing an alternative client base in the Far East.

                  Mr Putin lashed out at the European summit, defending the country's incursion into Georgia. "The truth is on our side," he told Vesti-24 television.

                  "We act absolutely correctly, morally and in accordance with international law. Someone in Europe wants to serve someone else's foreign-policy interests."

                  To stave off tough measures, including possible EU sanctions, Moscow has sent a variety of signals that it will use its energy clout to retaliate against any European reprimand for its refusal to implement a ceasefire with Georgia.

                  While expectations of a tough pan-European response have steadily diminished, Europe's energy dependence on Moscow will be overhauled. Officials will tell EU leaders that plans to reduce the continent's energy dependency on imports of Russian oil and gas supplies are advanced.

                  A feasibility study is already underway on the costs of creating gas stockpiles to prevent Russia using the threat of switching the lights out or turning off heating supplies to pressure Europe.

                  British officials said that Gordon Brown would propose that the G7 - the G8 minus Russia - would begin meeting again as a route to humiliating the Kremlin. "Russia does not like it when people get together get together and talk about them," a Foreign Office official said.

                  To avoid a damaging split between EU states, other direct measures against Russia and its allies in the breakaway Georgian enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia will be left to later meetings.

                  Efforts behind the scenes have focused on drawing up a travel ban on individuals associated with the Russian-backed enclaves that triggered the Georgian crisis.

                  Officials involved believe it will take at least two weeks to agree on a list Timur Yakashvili, the Georgian reunification minister, told The Daily Telegraph that he plans to provide information on up to 150 individuals implicated in the struggle over the two breakaway regions to European diplomats.

                  Vladimir Putin has warned Europe that Russia's energy reserves will flow to the Far East if the continent's leaders seek to punish his country for invading Georgia.


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                    Re: CNN - Putin Accuses U.S. of Orchestrating Georgian War

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                    NOTICE : NO GAS FOR EUROPE (FROM THE GAZPROM DESK)


                    Deliver this message to the European Union



                    Gazprom gas transportation through the Yamal-Europe pipeline will be suspended as of 1600 on 2 September until 2200 on 3 September due to repairs.
                    Gazprom report reads."Following requests from the EuRoPol GAZ and Wingas companies for planned repairs in Poland and Germany, gas transportation through the Yamal-Europe pipeline will be suspended from 1600 on 2 September until 2200 on 3 September. As of 2200 on 3 September until 2200 on 4 September gas deliveries will amount to 50m cu.m. a day,"

                    The rated capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline is 100m cu.m. a day. "Gas deliveries to European consumers will be compensated by increased transit volumes via alternative routes," if found.

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                    Russia's Gazprom Suspends Gas Deliveries to Europe Due to Repairs


                    Posted on: Monday, 1 September 2008, 15:00 CDT

                    Text of report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti

                    Moscow, 1 September: Gas transportation through the Yamal-Europe pipeline will be suspended as of 1600 on 2 September until 2200 on 3 September due to repairs, a Gazprom report reads.

                    "Following requests from the EuRoPol GAZ and Wingas companies for planned repairs in Poland and Germany, gas transportation through the Yamal-Europe pipeline will be suspended from 1600 on 2 September until 2200 on 3 September. As of 2200 on 3 September until 2200 on 4 September gas deliveries will amount to 50m cu.m. a day," the report said.

                    The rated capacity of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline is 100m cu.m. a day. "Gas deliveries to European consumers will be compensated by increased transit volumes via alternative routes," Gazprom said.

                    Originally published by RIA Novosti news agency, Moscow, in Russian 1430 01 Sep 08.

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