USSR2 File: Soviet strategists manipulate tensions between Georgia and Abkhazia-South Ossetia, Zyuganov meets Kokoity in North Ossetia
On July 4 Georgian forces shelled towns, including the capital Tskhinvali, in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, which is occupied by Russian "peacekeeping" troops. The unrest and warfare that has plagued the Caucasian republics since the late 1980s bears all of the hallmarks of a Kremlin-orchestrated strategic deception designed primarily for Western media consumption, the purpose of which is to present Russia as a "weak" nation battling NATO-backed "ex"-Soviet republics. Georgian officials and South Ossetian separatists accuse the other of instigating the latest exchange of weapons' fire. Eduard Kokoity has been the unrecognized president of South Ossetia since 2001. "We call on the Georgian side to see reason and pull out their forces," Kokoity demanded. "Otherwise, we will take a decision to introduce heavy machinery and offensive weapons to terminate all the units illegally deployed in the conflict zone."Pictured above, from left to right: Presidents of the self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Transnistria--Kokoity, Sergei Bagapsh, and Igor Smirnov--in September 2006. All three politicians are pro-Russian "ex"-communists. Smirnov is causing trouble for the openly communist "pro"-Western regime in Moldova, while the other two are causing trouble for the covertly communist "pro"-Western regime in Georgia.
Georgian forces shell towns in South Ossetia
Reuters
Published: July 4, 2008
MOSCOW: Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia on Friday mobilised reservists and threatened to use heavy weapons against Georgian forces after two people were killed in heavy exchanges of fire overnight.
Neither Tbilisi nor the separatists admitted violating a ceasefire, blaming the hostilities on one another.
Quoting the rebel region's officials, Russia's Vesti-24 channel said Georgia had started bombarding the separatist capital Tskhinvali with mortar shells at about midnight on Thursday. "Then intensive gunfire followed," it reported.
The channel ran video footage of wounded people being operated on in a Tskhinvali hospital.
"This is a well-planned provocation staged by the Georgian side," separatist leader Eduard Kokoity said in a statement broadcast by Vesti-24. "It shows Georgia does not intend to resolve peacefully the conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia."
South Ossetia said it had mobilised its reservists after the overnight hostilities, Interfax news agency quoted the region's spokeswoman Irina Gagloyeva as saying.
Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions broke away from central rule during wars against Tbilisi during the 1990s. Russia, which has peacekeepers in both unrecognised republics, has provided moral and financial support for the rebels.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who wants his ex-Soviet Caucasus state to join NATO and the European Union, sees the re-integration of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a top priority.
"We call on the Georgian side to see reason and pull out their forces," Kokoity said. "Otherwise, we will take a decision to introduce heavy machinery and offensive weapons to terminate all the units illegally deployed in the conflict zone."
Tbilisi said it did not believe Kokoity's threats would materialise.
"This is absolutely inadmissible. If this happens, this will be a violation of all existing (ceasefire) agreements," said Shota Utiashvili, as official in the Georgian Interior Ministry.
Mamuka Kurashvili, commander of Georgia's peacekeeping battalion in the conflict zone, told Reuters the Georgian side had been forced to return fire after the separatists launched heavy bombardment on several local Georgian villages.
He said he had no information about any fatalities on the Georgian side.
De facto South Ossetian President Kokoity, according to one biography, is a graduate of the Soviet Komsomol and appears to be little more than a Kremlin stooge, fanning the flames of ethnic unrest in the "post"-Soviet space:
Born on October 31st 1964, Eduard Kokoity is firstly a wrestling champion among the Russian national team. Between 1989 and 1992 he is the First Secretary of the Tskhinvali Komsomol (Communist Youth Organisation). Afterwards, he moves to Moscow to make business. There he becomes the leader of the South-Ossetian representation between 1997 and 1999. He moves back to Tskhinsvali in 2001.
Moreover, the Russian Minister of Defense, Serguei Ivanov, also hailed the numerous announcements made by Kokoity in August 2004, notably when he mentionned that "most of the inhabitants of South Ossetia are Russian citizens and so the Russian government has to look after them."
Abkhazia is another breakaway region of Georgia and is also occupied by Russian "peacekeepers." Kokoity's Abkhazian counterpart is Sergei Bagapsh, who is not only a graduate of the Soviet Komsomol but an "ex"-cadre of the still-very-much-alive Communist Party of the Soviet Union. One biography reports:
In 1972, he does his military service at the head of a sovkhoze, and then becomes instructor at the regional Komsomol (Communist Youth Organisation) of Abkhazia. In 1978, he is in charge of the Information at the central committee VLKSM in Georgia, and then becomes First Secretary of the regional committee VLKSM in Abkhazia in 1980. As a new step for his political carreer, he becomes two years later the First Secretary of the Communist Party for the region of Ochamchire. After having climbed the ladder progressively, he is appointed Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia from April 1997 to June 1999.
In mid-June the two "ex"-communist leaders met in the Abkhazian capital of Sokhumi where, according to the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee, "Eduard Kokoity and Sergey Bagapsh discussed the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts against the background of increased military threat from Georgia." On June 15 the same news source reported that Kokoity also met with Communist Party of the Russian Federation Chairman Gennady Zyuganov in North Ossetia, which is located in Russia. The North Ossetian President Teimuraz Mamsurov also participated in the meeting. We believe and have documented that Zyuganov and his colleague Oleg Shenin, mastermind of the potemkin anti-Gorbachevist coup of 1991, are the powers behind the throne in Moscow. Conferences such as those described below provide support for that contention.
Bagapsh, Kokoity Discuss Cooperation
South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity held talks with Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh, the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee and Abkhaz news agency, Apsnipress, reported on June 15.
Apsnipress said the meeting was held in Sokhumi.
“Eduard Kokoity and Sergey Bagapsh discussed the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts against the background of increased military threat from Georgia,” the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported.
The two leaders also discussed bilateral agreements and further cooperation in economic, social and military spheres, according to this report.
On June 15 the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee also reported that Kokoity met with head of Russia’s Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, in Russia’s North Ossetian Republic. The President North Ossetian Republic, Teimuraz Mamsurov, also participated in the meeting.
Although supported by the Kremlin, Bagapsh maintains links to Tblisi, as his biography, cited above, confirms: "He is also alleged to have close relationships with Georgian politicians. As a proof of it, he met with Nino Burjanadze, upon his visit to Moscow, on November 2nd 2004 and they discussed about the situation in Abkhazia." Nino Burjanadze is the "pro"-NATO speaker of the Georgian parliament but, like Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, cut her political teeth in Eduard Shevardnadze's "ex"-communist Citizen’s Union of Georgia party. Thus, we observe a complicated web of collusion and deception among the allegedly feuding political elites of the Not-So-Former Soviet Union, nearly all of whom are reds, "former" reds, and KGB and GRU types.
Georgian forces shell towns in South Ossetia
Reuters
Published: July 4, 2008
MOSCOW: Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia on Friday mobilised reservists and threatened to use heavy weapons against Georgian forces after two people were killed in heavy exchanges of fire overnight.
Neither Tbilisi nor the separatists admitted violating a ceasefire, blaming the hostilities on one another.
Quoting the rebel region's officials, Russia's Vesti-24 channel said Georgia had started bombarding the separatist capital Tskhinvali with mortar shells at about midnight on Thursday. "Then intensive gunfire followed," it reported.
The channel ran video footage of wounded people being operated on in a Tskhinvali hospital.
"This is a well-planned provocation staged by the Georgian side," separatist leader Eduard Kokoity said in a statement broadcast by Vesti-24. "It shows Georgia does not intend to resolve peacefully the conflicts in South Ossetia and Abkhazia."
South Ossetia said it had mobilised its reservists after the overnight hostilities, Interfax news agency quoted the region's spokeswoman Irina Gagloyeva as saying.
Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions broke away from central rule during wars against Tbilisi during the 1990s. Russia, which has peacekeepers in both unrecognised republics, has provided moral and financial support for the rebels.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who wants his ex-Soviet Caucasus state to join NATO and the European Union, sees the re-integration of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as a top priority.
"We call on the Georgian side to see reason and pull out their forces," Kokoity said. "Otherwise, we will take a decision to introduce heavy machinery and offensive weapons to terminate all the units illegally deployed in the conflict zone."
Tbilisi said it did not believe Kokoity's threats would materialise.
"This is absolutely inadmissible. If this happens, this will be a violation of all existing (ceasefire) agreements," said Shota Utiashvili, as official in the Georgian Interior Ministry.
Mamuka Kurashvili, commander of Georgia's peacekeeping battalion in the conflict zone, told Reuters the Georgian side had been forced to return fire after the separatists launched heavy bombardment on several local Georgian villages.
He said he had no information about any fatalities on the Georgian side.
De facto South Ossetian President Kokoity, according to one biography, is a graduate of the Soviet Komsomol and appears to be little more than a Kremlin stooge, fanning the flames of ethnic unrest in the "post"-Soviet space:
Born on October 31st 1964, Eduard Kokoity is firstly a wrestling champion among the Russian national team. Between 1989 and 1992 he is the First Secretary of the Tskhinvali Komsomol (Communist Youth Organisation). Afterwards, he moves to Moscow to make business. There he becomes the leader of the South-Ossetian representation between 1997 and 1999. He moves back to Tskhinsvali in 2001.
Moreover, the Russian Minister of Defense, Serguei Ivanov, also hailed the numerous announcements made by Kokoity in August 2004, notably when he mentionned that "most of the inhabitants of South Ossetia are Russian citizens and so the Russian government has to look after them."
Abkhazia is another breakaway region of Georgia and is also occupied by Russian "peacekeepers." Kokoity's Abkhazian counterpart is Sergei Bagapsh, who is not only a graduate of the Soviet Komsomol but an "ex"-cadre of the still-very-much-alive Communist Party of the Soviet Union. One biography reports:
In 1972, he does his military service at the head of a sovkhoze, and then becomes instructor at the regional Komsomol (Communist Youth Organisation) of Abkhazia. In 1978, he is in charge of the Information at the central committee VLKSM in Georgia, and then becomes First Secretary of the regional committee VLKSM in Abkhazia in 1980. As a new step for his political carreer, he becomes two years later the First Secretary of the Communist Party for the region of Ochamchire. After having climbed the ladder progressively, he is appointed Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia from April 1997 to June 1999.
In mid-June the two "ex"-communist leaders met in the Abkhazian capital of Sokhumi where, according to the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee, "Eduard Kokoity and Sergey Bagapsh discussed the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts against the background of increased military threat from Georgia." On June 15 the same news source reported that Kokoity also met with Communist Party of the Russian Federation Chairman Gennady Zyuganov in North Ossetia, which is located in Russia. The North Ossetian President Teimuraz Mamsurov also participated in the meeting. We believe and have documented that Zyuganov and his colleague Oleg Shenin, mastermind of the potemkin anti-Gorbachevist coup of 1991, are the powers behind the throne in Moscow. Conferences such as those described below provide support for that contention.
Bagapsh, Kokoity Discuss Cooperation
South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity held talks with Abkhaz leader Sergey Bagapsh, the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee and Abkhaz news agency, Apsnipress, reported on June 15.
Apsnipress said the meeting was held in Sokhumi.
“Eduard Kokoity and Sergey Bagapsh discussed the settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts against the background of increased military threat from Georgia,” the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee reported.
The two leaders also discussed bilateral agreements and further cooperation in economic, social and military spheres, according to this report.
On June 15 the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee also reported that Kokoity met with head of Russia’s Communist Party, Gennady Zyuganov, in Russia’s North Ossetian Republic. The President North Ossetian Republic, Teimuraz Mamsurov, also participated in the meeting.
Although supported by the Kremlin, Bagapsh maintains links to Tblisi, as his biography, cited above, confirms: "He is also alleged to have close relationships with Georgian politicians. As a proof of it, he met with Nino Burjanadze, upon his visit to Moscow, on November 2nd 2004 and they discussed about the situation in Abkhazia." Nino Burjanadze is the "pro"-NATO speaker of the Georgian parliament but, like Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, cut her political teeth in Eduard Shevardnadze's "ex"-communist Citizen’s Union of Georgia party. Thus, we observe a complicated web of collusion and deception among the allegedly feuding political elites of the Not-So-Former Soviet Union, nearly all of whom are reds, "former" reds, and KGB and GRU types.
posted by Perilous Times at 10:09 AM
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Hmm, no major surprise that Zyuganov here is involved in the "ex"-Soviet Republics in the Caucus region in trying to paint the West as the "aggressor", which Zyuganov is openly recycling propaganda straight from the Kremlin.
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