How do you know they said it was Gori but really showed pictures of Tskhinvali? Because you're press said so? So it's you press's word again our press's word, soOriginally Posted by Оля
By the way, while American media is much more biases, European media while generally being on the Georgian side, did regularly portrayed the Russian / Ossetian point of view, for example the British newspaper the Guardian practicically from the start was saying it was all Georgia's fault for launching an attack on South Ossetia. Russian media only shows the extreme anti-western POV (i.e. CNN which you love quoting) in order to portray
Everything I've read / watched / listen in the Russian media is the same. Not only does it say the same thing.
Also regarding expansionism of the borders. The official Russian border hasn't changed, but Russian recognises Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the majority of both these republics have Russian passports, can freely travel in and out of Russia, and Russians can travel in and out of the regions, these two republics will have Russian military bases and Russian peacekeepers there, the Russian goverment is going to help them set up an infrastructure, civic institutions and naturally they will be similar to the Russian set up.... so yeh, the official border hasn't expanded, but the de facto border has / will. (I'm not saying this is wrong, if the majority of these regions want to be part of Russia / closely associated with Russian, then why not? They'll never integrate into Georgia, I'm just saying Russians should just admit what's going on).