Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:51am EDT
Georgia cuts access to Russian websites, TV news (click on title to entry. thank you)
By Niko Mchedlishvili
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow.
Georgia's Interior Ministry said the action was not anti-democratic, but Russian broadcasts could not be allowed to "scare our population".
A war over the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia has unleashed high emotion in Russia and Georgia, reflected in coverage on both state and private channels.
"People from the (Georgian) security agencies asked me to block Russian sites," Mamia Sanadiradze, founder and CEO of the biggest Georgian internet service provider, Caucasus Online, told Reuters....
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow.
Georgia's Interior Ministry said the action was not anti-democratic, but Russian broadcasts could not be allowed to "scare our population".
A war over the Russian-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia has unleashed high emotion in Russia and Georgia, reflected in coverage on both state and private channels.
"People from the (Georgian) security agencies asked me to block Russian sites," Mamia Sanadiradze, founder and CEO of the biggest Georgian internet service provider, Caucasus Online, told Reuters....
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MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - Georgian troops are not implementing President Mikheil Saakashvili's orders on their withdrawal from the South Ossetian conflict zone, a senior Russian military official said Tuesday.
Russia began pulling back troops from Georgia on Monday in accordance with a six-point plan to resolve the South Ossetia conflict drawn up by the Russian and French presidents in Moscow on August 12.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the plan in Moscow on Saturday, a day after his Georgian counterpart signed it in Tbilisi.
"Although Saakashvili signed the six principles [peace plan], we can see that this order is not being implemented," said Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff.
Earlier Tuesday, Moscow handed over 13 Georgian military personnel and two civilians, captured during the recent conflict over South Ossetia, in exchange for five Russians, among them two pilots.
But the Russian General Staff denied Georgian allegations that it was holding captive 80 Georgian servicemen....
Russia began pulling back troops from Georgia on Monday in accordance with a six-point plan to resolve the South Ossetia conflict drawn up by the Russian and French presidents in Moscow on August 12.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the plan in Moscow on Saturday, a day after his Georgian counterpart signed it in Tbilisi.
"Although Saakashvili signed the six principles [peace plan], we can see that this order is not being implemented," said Col. Gen. Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff.
Earlier Tuesday, Moscow handed over 13 Georgian military personnel and two civilians, captured during the recent conflict over South Ossetia, in exchange for five Russians, among them two pilots.
But the Russian General Staff denied Georgian allegations that it was holding captive 80 Georgian servicemen....
