There are interesting Gallup data on what people in Georgia and Ukraine think of those developments themselves. These are just some pieces of data, some popular lies in bold (you just cam skim through numbers/graphs, you’ll get the picture). It’s worth seeing to get a sense of what’s happening in the world now (politically):

1. How do “Ukrainians hate Russians and look for western support against Russia”
http://www.gallup.com/video/27178/Ukraine-Leadership.aspx

2. How do “Georgians support pro-western goals of their president, hate Russia and admire their current life in Georgia”:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110602/Georgians-Look-Toward-Russia-Respect-Admiration.aspx

3. How do “Georgians admire a way democracy is developing in their country under Saakashvili/US leadership”:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/102628/Georgians-Value-Democracy-Political-Opposition.aspx

4. How do “Georgians and Ukrainians admire a way democracy is developing in their country under pro-western governments (compared to other former-USSR republics)”:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106930/Former-Soviet-Populations-Value-Democracy.aspx

5. How do “Georgian and Ukrainian people are striving for quitting CIS and getting into NATO”:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/109894/Support-CIS-Partnerships-Strong-Even-Georgia.aspx

6. How do “Ukrainians support pro-western goals of their president”:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/110848/Ukrainians-May-Oppose-Presidents-ProWestern-Goals.aspx

http://www.gallup.com/poll/104356/Ukrainians-See-More-Value-Ties-Russia-Than-US.aspx

7. About “free speech patterns in Georgia”:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/107752/Fear-Hampers-Free-Speech-Former-Soviet-Nations.aspx

So, what do PEOPLE in Georgia and Ukraine think about all this? In links above you could find that:
1) 41% of people in Georgia are for close relationships with Russia and only 11% for close relationships with US (before criminal provocation in Ossetia)
2) Georgians consider living in Georgia under current regime as the worse living among all other former-USSR countries now
3) 37% of Georgians are dissatisfied with their so-called “democracy” and only 14% satisfied (worse result among CIS countries)
4) 1/3 of Georgians and Ukrainians think that CIS should be a single federal state, 1/3 – an economic union (like EU); Gallup do not even dare to ask people about joining NATO 
5) Only 16% of Ukrainians approve US leadership, only 7% approve their own pro-US government, but majority (53%) approve Russian leadership
6) 55% of Georgians are afraid to openly express their political views…

I added Ukraine here as it’s seems to be the next source of crisis on Russian border. Please, check data below. I guess Gallup is in no way pro-Russian organization, and these data are not pro-Russian propaganda You’ll see that majority of population in Georgia and Ukraine are really pro-Russian and anti-Western/US. Then, what kind of “democracy” is that??? Who did need to provoke Russia in Ossetia to set Georgians against Russians??? Who needs Georgia and Ukraine to join NATO??? Who needs NATO rockets on Russian borders??? What kind of “free” and “objective” mass media do we have??? The answers are clear… but not that sweet…

At
7 p.m. on August 8, the day when Olympics started, worldwide community heard from CNN and BBC news that Russian tanks invaded Georgia and that Russia started war with Georgia.

That the war had begun 16 hours earlier by Georgian president Sukashvili’s order these media preferred to pass over in silence.

But you have the right to know truth. That’s how this really happened:

According to old tradition of Olympic Games’ eve everyone was looking for peace and quiet. On August 7, Georgian and South Ossetian officials agreed to observe a ceasefire and hold debates in attempt to solve their long-term conflict peacefully.

August 8, 00:06

Just hours later, six minutes past midnight on August 8, inhabitants of Ossetian capital Tskhinvali, peacefully sleeping in their beds, heard dreadful whizz of incoming rockets. The hell followed soon… Without any declaration Georgian forces launched massive shelling of Tskhinvali with all available means, including heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems GRAD. In this massacre, in just several hours, the whole city was ruined: 2,000 human lives wasted and most buildings demolished. Georgian military expedition, called “Clean field”, yielded its first fruits…

August 8, 03:00

Georgian army occupied five Ossetian villages, burning them to ashes.

August 8, 03:30

Georgian tanks started attack on Tskhinvali. Ossetian militia stood up to the enemy but could not keep back 30-times outnumbering Georgian forces. Many basements where Ossetins tried to escape shelling were showered with grenades. At the very same time, Georgian “peacekeepers”, serving in South Ossetia, launched unexampled attack on their yesterday’s colleagues, Russian peacekeepers, managing to kill at least 10 of them.

August 8, 04:33

Russia called for UN Security Council meeting to put a stop to Georgian military aggression and seize fire. No decision was delivered at neither this nor several following meetings.

August 8, 09:00

Russian Prime Minister Putin informed President Bush that Georgia launched war against Ossetia. Mr. Bush answered that “nobody wanted this war”.

Ossetia was praying for help. It was already obvious that “clean field” meant nothing else but ethnical cleansing. In these circumstances, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced that Russia would defend Russian citizens who constitute 90% of South Ossetia population.

August 8, 16:00

Russian forces overstepped mountain pass and made their way toward perishing Ossetins. That was exactly the moment when CNN and BBC finally “noticed” the war and broadcasted their «Russians invaded Georgia» scenes. Sukashvili announced that Russia invaded Georgia and held back that he started this horrible bloodshed himself.

Before midnight, Russian and Ossetian forces kicked aggressors out of Ossetian capital. Survived citizens started to leave basements to escape the city. In the next couple days around 30,000 refugees fled to Russia.

Failed Georgian assault turned to informational blackout and devilish propaganda by politicized media feeding us their lies. It’s time when so much depends on your personal position! I believe that there will be journalists who can give objective picture of these events. I believe in people of peace who will regard an attempt of massive extermination of small nation as genocide (3% of South Ossetins and 0.3% of all Ossetins worldwide were killed in just one night on August 8; fascists have never achieved that efficiency in exterminating Jewish people even when Auschwitz and Treblinka were working at full capacity). I believe in a world community that will view Sukashvili’s inhuman orders as a war crime and an outrage on humanity. I believe in you, thinking person, able to confront with facts, person who will not follow barefaced propaganda of deeply corrupt media, person able to recognize truth!

PS: Best on www.youtube.com about war in Ossetia:
- The truth about South Ossetia War
- 12 Year Old Girl Tells the Truth about Georgia

Best on www.youtube.com about Georgian Führer:
- Saakashvili Runs For Cover
- Saakashvili eats own tie