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During the conflict in South Ossetia RT has received numerous letters from all over the world, giving reactions to events and their coverage in the media. Here are some of them.

Invented people

From: Ivan Blinov

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/14/georgia.russia

Those who fled expressed a feeling of betrayal. They said Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, had duped them. “I believed him when he said there was peace. That's why we stayed in our homes. But it isn't true,” Lamzika Tushmali, 62, said. She added: “There is no ceasefire.”

Очень странное имя для грузинки – если погуглить или в яндексе поискать других людей с такой фамилией и именем не существует :)
Все Ламзики имеют фамилию Тушмали, и наоборот :) причем всем им 62 года :)

[A very strange name for a Georgian – if one tries to google it or to search on yandex, no other people with a similar last name or first exist :)
All Lamziks have a last name of Tushmali and vice versa :) also all of them are 62 :)]

South Ossetia Issue

From: srdjan vezmar

Dear all,

I am writing to you from Novi Sad, Serbia. We are all watching RT every day on our cable TV. You news and programs are very good, popular and politically correct. As person who was suffered during NATO strikes against my country, I can understand these double standards of EU and United States. Michael Saakashvili is a murderer, and he must face with justice. My fellow citizens and other minorities in Kosovo and Metohija province live every day under this kind of double standards and ethnic cleansing committed by Albanians and supported by some American Politicians.

Please continue whit these kind of reports from South Ossetia. This is only way in order to present ethnic cleansing committed by Michael Saakashvili to all international communities.

All the best!
Srdjan, Novi Sad, Serbia

Irish view on the conflict

From: clem

A Chara,

Hello or as we say in Ireland ‘Dia Daoibh’. As a regular viewer of Russia Today I was keen to see how you reported the conflict in South Ossetia, as in my view and in the view of most of the people I have spoken to the coverage in particular that of American media has been far from the true picture. The friends I have spoken to are not just Irish but Latvians, Polish, Lithuanians and one Russian, Evgeny, who says quite simply “the Georgians sent in their army and began killing Russian peace keepers and civilians first”.

It seems apparent to me and most everybody else I speak to that America wants to surround Russia in the guise of NATO expansion, nobody, especially the Russians, are going to lie down and be kicked there fore it is no surprise that the response to the Georgian action was quick and decisive, no different to the American response in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the end of the day most people with a glimmer of intelligence can see through the likes of George Bush and Saakashvili and most people don't think that Russia is the enemy.

Is mise le meas
Cleim O’Tormaigh

Credibility or Not

From: Me Here

I could believe better what you are saying if you even tried to be impartial in your dealings with Georgia.

i.e. Right now a live interview is going on with US & Georgia and ALL news cannels (CNN, France TV, BBC and even Al Jazeria) are running it LIVE

But I notice you are not and am willing to bet you will only show an edited version later??

How can you expect to even begin to take what you are saying seriously when you are clearly only flying the Rusain point of view??

If might interest you to know that I have a Russian wife and I love Russia but here we go with the bad old days of Russian totaliterism!!!

News Coverage of Georgia

From: COLIN RAY

I would just like to thank RTTV for giving a true account of what is happening in Georgia and South Ossetia. I find that I can no longer watch the totally biased false accounts given by what I now think of as an American/British State Mouthpiece i.e. the BBC. It really angers me to think that this station (the BBC) has lost its power to  tell the truth because of the influence of the American and British Governments.

My compliments

From: Michael.Mauksch

Dear RT Team,

let me express my compliments to your excellent media coverage of the present crisis in the Caucasus.

The interpretation of the events in most of the so-called “western” media stresses, more than ever, the importance of giving the Russian position a voice in the worldwide televised media. Moreover, reliable information from the zone of conflict is very valuable these days and is in my opinion foremost provided by RT.

I was particularly moved by the reports that gave me and my wife (who is from North Ossetia) an idea about what the refugees and the Ossetian victims must have been through. I find it depressing how biased the media in some countries are, ignoring widely the suffering of the Ossetian people concentrating instead on the aftermaths of the self-inflicted war in Georgia.

I am convinced that the truth will eventually prevail. Hopefully, somebody is going to listen to it.

Best Regards,
Michael Mauksch, Worzburg, Germany.