Georgia’s information warfare - Die Presse

Published at Tbilisi English-language magazine Weekly Georgian Journal was released in November 2009 with the image on the cover of Russia’s soldiers guarding the four Georgian teenagers, who in early November, crossed the Georgian-South Ossetian border. On the sleeve of their uniforms sported a swastika! Clearly, this montage aimed at creating an image of the enemy, says journalist and scholar Jörg Becker.

In 2008, the lobbying and PR for Saakashvili, said later in an article by three Western agencies, Orion Strategies, Squire-Sanders Public Advocacy, and Aspect Consulting. Somewhere in this opaque triangle must have the idea to remove a Hollywood film about Saakashvili, the hero of the victorious war of 2008, winning the evil Russian.

In the first volume of the report (September 2009) International Mission Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia, Heidi Tagliavini Swiss diplomat, prepared for the European Commission, reported clearly and without doubt: “Direct military action began with a major Georgian military operation against the city of Tskhinvali and its environs on Aug. 8, 2008. This operation began with a massive Georgian artillery fire. Until now, these two phrases are not reflected in the Georgian media, there is more: the film director Renny Harlin film studio Rexmedia Saakashvili re-appear the victim and victor.

In Georgia, there is no media, independent of government, and how free from the state in the European media, show Berlusconi in Italy, and Sarkozy in France, ironically by the author. “Georgia, you are welcome in NATO and the EU!” - Ends his article Becker.

Source: (Die Presse)