CNN Interviews Putin (English subtitles)
compiled by Sean M. Madden
iNoodle.com
September 2, 2008
The following three-part series is an interview, held on August 28, between CNN's Matthew Chance and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. The CNN transcript is available here. Following the three-part series is the truncated version broadcast for Western audiences.
Part 1/3 (Length: 9:32):
Part 2/3 (Length: 9:00):
Part 3/3 (Length: 9:23):
CNN's truncated broadcast, for Western consumption (Length: 2:36):
Here's the CNN transcript of the final question asked by CNN's Matthew Chance as well as Putin's response, followed by their closing remarks:
Matthew Chance: Let's go back to the assertion that the U.S. provoked the war. Diplomats in the United States accuse Russia of provoking the war by supporting the separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia by arming them, by increasing forces in the territories and by recognizing their institutions ... basically giving them the green light to go ahead and operate de facto. Wasn't it Russia that really caused this conflict?
Vladimir Putin: I can easily reply to this question. Since the 1990s, as soon as this conflict started, and it started in recent history because of the decision of the Georgian side to deprive Abkhazia and South Ossetia of the rights of autonomy. In 1990 and 1991, the Georgian leadership deprived Abkhazia and South Ossetia of the autonomous rights that they enjoyed as part of the Soviet Union, as part of Soviet Georgia, and as soon as that decision was taken, ethnic strife and armed hostilities began. At that time, Russia signed a number of international agreements, and we complied with all those agreements. We had in the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia only those peacekeeping forces that were stipulated in those agreements and never exceeded the quota.
The other side -- I am referring to the Georgian side -- with the support of the United States, violated all the agreements in the most brazen way.
Under the guise of units of the Ministry of the Interior, they secretly moved into the conflict zone their troops, regular army, special units and heavy equipment. In fact, they surrounded Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, with that heavy equipment and tanks. They surrounded our peacekeepers with tanks and started shooting at them point blank.
It was only after that, after our first casualties and after their number considerably increased, after tens of them had been killed -- I think 15 or 20 peacekeepers were killed, and there was heavy loss of life among the civilian population, with hundreds killed -- it was only after all that that President Medvedev decided to introduce a military contingent to save the lives of our peacekeepers and innocent civilians.
What is more, when our troops began moving in the direction of Tskhinvali, they came across a fortified area that had been secretly prepared by the Georgian military. In effect, tanks and heavy artillery had been dug into ground there, and they started shelling our soldiers as they moved.
All of it was done in violation of previous international agreements.
It is of course conceivable that our U.S. partners were unaware of all that, but it's very unlikely.
A totally neutral person, the former Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ms. Zurabishvili, who is I think a French citizen and is now in Paris, has said publicly, and it was broadcast, that there was an enormous number of U.S. advisers and that of course they knew everything.
And if our supposition that there were U.S. citizens in the combat zone is confirmed -- and I repeat, we need further information from our military -- then these suspicions are quite justified.
Those who pursue such a policy toward Russia, what do they think? Will they like us only when we die?
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Matthew Chance: Thank you.
Vladimir Putin: Thank you very much.
iNoodle.com
September 2, 2008
The following three-part series is an interview, held on August 28, between CNN's Matthew Chance and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin. The CNN transcript is available here. Following the three-part series is the truncated version broadcast for Western audiences.
Part 1/3 (Length: 9:32):
Part 2/3 (Length: 9:00):
Part 3/3 (Length: 9:23):
CNN's truncated broadcast, for Western consumption (Length: 2:36):
Here's the CNN transcript of the final question asked by CNN's Matthew Chance as well as Putin's response, followed by their closing remarks:
Matthew Chance: Let's go back to the assertion that the U.S. provoked the war. Diplomats in the United States accuse Russia of provoking the war by supporting the separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia by arming them, by increasing forces in the territories and by recognizing their institutions ... basically giving them the green light to go ahead and operate de facto. Wasn't it Russia that really caused this conflict?
Vladimir Putin: I can easily reply to this question. Since the 1990s, as soon as this conflict started, and it started in recent history because of the decision of the Georgian side to deprive Abkhazia and South Ossetia of the rights of autonomy. In 1990 and 1991, the Georgian leadership deprived Abkhazia and South Ossetia of the autonomous rights that they enjoyed as part of the Soviet Union, as part of Soviet Georgia, and as soon as that decision was taken, ethnic strife and armed hostilities began. At that time, Russia signed a number of international agreements, and we complied with all those agreements. We had in the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia only those peacekeeping forces that were stipulated in those agreements and never exceeded the quota.
The other side -- I am referring to the Georgian side -- with the support of the United States, violated all the agreements in the most brazen way.
Under the guise of units of the Ministry of the Interior, they secretly moved into the conflict zone their troops, regular army, special units and heavy equipment. In fact, they surrounded Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, with that heavy equipment and tanks. They surrounded our peacekeepers with tanks and started shooting at them point blank.
It was only after that, after our first casualties and after their number considerably increased, after tens of them had been killed -- I think 15 or 20 peacekeepers were killed, and there was heavy loss of life among the civilian population, with hundreds killed -- it was only after all that that President Medvedev decided to introduce a military contingent to save the lives of our peacekeepers and innocent civilians.
What is more, when our troops began moving in the direction of Tskhinvali, they came across a fortified area that had been secretly prepared by the Georgian military. In effect, tanks and heavy artillery had been dug into ground there, and they started shelling our soldiers as they moved.
All of it was done in violation of previous international agreements.
It is of course conceivable that our U.S. partners were unaware of all that, but it's very unlikely.
A totally neutral person, the former Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ms. Zurabishvili, who is I think a French citizen and is now in Paris, has said publicly, and it was broadcast, that there was an enormous number of U.S. advisers and that of course they knew everything.
And if our supposition that there were U.S. citizens in the combat zone is confirmed -- and I repeat, we need further information from our military -- then these suspicions are quite justified.
Those who pursue such a policy toward Russia, what do they think? Will they like us only when we die?
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Matthew Chance: Thank you.
Vladimir Putin: Thank you very much.
posted by Sean M. Madden at
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2 Comments:
As Information Clearing House has just headlined this post in its Tuesday newsletter, I am providing a link, here, to the article I wrote yesterday concerning the Georgia conflict.
Specifically, the article was in response to Monday's BBC Radio 4 Today program and the lies told therein.
Since publishing the article on iNoodle.com yesterday, the piece has thus far also been headlined by Online Journal, Scoop, Signs of the Times, RINF.com and various other websites.
Please read and share widely.
The following comment was posted on a reprint of this compilation piece which Tom Feeley, editor of Information Clearing House, headlined on his Tuesday newsletter.
I think the comment is worth repeating here at the source post. You may click here to read the original comment on ICH, with all of the hypertext links intact.
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@Sean M. Madden - Quote: "History had gone down the memory hole, as it so often must do if monstrous lies are to be maintained."
Good article, Sean Madden, about the BBC, Georgia and how it is to be: "Living in a Lying Nation." - It's a bad thing that the UK too, as you write: "is every bit as criminally complicit as their American counterparts." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6gpane
In this case nearly the whole media complex in all US/UK colonies is guilty by association of war crimes and crimes against humanity. I can hear and see the BBC too, plus 30 other stations in different languages, via cable as well, and it has indeed turned into one of the worst info-sewers one can imagine. The criminal who finished what little was left of honest journalism at the BBC was Michael Grade: one of the 'front men' within the propaganda media organizations.
Grade was the first years - in the very dark and criminal Blair period - 'running' the show at the BBC, and thereafter saw to it that the same deterioration took place at ITV. Within short what was left of 'real journalism' at the BBC and ITV too, for 98% was snuffed, and the war and killing machine rolls on. Fueled and serviced by the global propaganda media machine the 'London War Lords' own. And that includes the BBC, now 'Broadcasting Brown's Crap' and ITV, Britain's largest commercial broadcaster. - Grade - TinyUrl.: http://tinyurl.com/l687f
In the UK all media are by the way already and heavily controlled by not only self censorship, but also by the infamous D-Notice, of which the UK media hardly ever speak: "The most institutionalised method of self-censorship is the D Notice system (short for Defence Notices). They are a unique peacetime arrangement of voluntary suppression of certain categories of information on the advice — not orders — of the Government.
The system was established in 1912 and continues to this day. The justification for the system, as stated in the official guidelines, is as follows: Hostile intelligence services draw on information from a variety of sources both overt and covert, and by piecing it together can build up a composite picture of a subject. The dissemination of sensitive information can make their task easier and put national security at risk.
It can also be of value to terrorist groups who lack the resources to obtain it through their own efforts. For these reasons there are dangers inherent even in the publication of information covered by D-Notices which has already appeared elsewhere. It is strongly requested that there should be no elaboration, nor confirmation or denial, of the accuracy of items published elsewhere, without reference to the [D Notice] Secretary." - [end excerpt] - For those who don't know this yet, the link is at Url.: http://www.serendipity.li/cda/dnot.html
What you rightly complain about - the lies and other misleading information - is valid for most media in the criminal 'sphere of interest' of the multinational and Rothschild cartel's warlords. You're also right in your observation: "And, so, whether I live in the United States or in the United Kingdom, I shall, regrettably, be living in a lying nation, a nation I call home."
Which doesn't mean people accept this: we share info for instance via ICH and on the rest of Internet, and daily learn a lot. Nobody wants to be lied to, because we all know that knowledge is power. And that's what we are using. We try to report facts as much and honestly as we can, knowing that what formerly was called a 'journalist' can be a killer too. - ICH - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4gwdv
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