Вот далеко не исчерпывающая выборка. Сначала, большая статья в NYTimes:
"Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question"
...Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.
Instead, the accounts suggest that Georgia’s inexperienced military attacked the isolated separatist capital of Tskhinvali on Aug. 7 with indiscriminate artillery and rocket fire, exposing civilians, Russian peacekeepers and unarmed monitors to harm.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/world/europe/07georgia.html
Затем, статья о Гергиеве, где подробно приведены его высказывания, мягко говоря, нелицеприятные для Саакашвили:
...But three months later Mr. Gergiev remains unrepentant, even proud, of his role. In fact, he says he is vindicated by accounts by independent monitors in an article in The New York Times on Friday, suggesting that Georgia was not acting defensively and had launched an indiscriminate attack, although disputes over who was to blame remain.
“That’s what I’m saying for three months,” Mr. Gergiev said on Friday, in a follow-up conversation to a wide-ranging four-hour interview here on Thursday before a concert on the Kirov Orchestra’s American tour, which moves on to Avery Fisher Hall on Sunday and Monday. “I’m not celebrating this. Sooner or later the truth comes out.”
Mr. Gergiev harshly criticized Georgia and its president, Mikheil Saakashvili. He likened its attack to Pearl Harbor, in the sense that many knew it was coming but were shocked when it did, and dismissed his critics as armchair commentators.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/arts/music/08gerg.html
Весьма недвусмысленная редакционная статья "Reckless Georgia" в Boston Globe:
"...Which is why Obama should take note of emerging accounts about the beginning of the war from seasoned monitors sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Those monitors, who were on the ground in the breakaway region of South Ossetia when hostilities commenced the night of Aug. 7, reported seeing Georgian artillery and rocket launchers assembling just outside South Ossetia at 3 p.m. that day, well before any Russian convoy had crossed into the enclave.
They also observed unprovoked shelling of South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, that night. The shells were falling on civilians huddled in their homes. And the monitors heard nothing that would confirm Saakashvili's claim that Georgian artillery attacks on Tskhinvali were in response to the shelling of ethnic Georgian villages.
There is no reason to doubt the competence or honesty of the OSCE monitors. The inescapable conclusion is that Saakashvili started the war and lied about it.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2008/11/11/reckless_georgia/
Статья в блоге Jason Bush, московского корреспондента Business Week
...Monitors from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe said that they found no evidence to support the Georgian claim that its villages were under attack. Instead they accuse Georgia of a “completely indiscriminate and disproportionate attack”, characterized by intensive shell and rocket fire against civilian targets.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/europeinsight/archives/2008/11/the_russia-geor.html
И, наконец, нечто почти фантастическое - репортаж из приграничной грузинской деревни Переви, из которой уходят последние российские блок-посты, и местные жители хотели бы чтобы они оставались, потому что больше им надеяться не накого - "They were perfect people"!
Georgians Flee Border Village as Russian Troops Leave
...They left behind a depopulated settlement whose remaining residents are afraid to come out onto the streets. Russian troops continued to withdraw from the main checkpoint at Perevi’s western edge, leaving Ossetian forces in charge.
Darejan Bakradze, 50, removed most of her valuables from Perevi on Monday morning, but returned in the afternoon to look after her mother-in-law. Passing the checkpoint, she grew pale and shaky at the sight of Ossetian soldiers.
“I want the Russians to come back,” Ms. Bakradze said. “They were perfect people.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/11/world/europe/11georgia.html
Значительная часть этих материалов (в первую очередь с версией военных действий) для российского читателя покажется вполне самоочевидной. Но для американских медиа - это настоящая революция. В августе 90% материалов в местных СМИ на эту тему состояло из весьма грубого, истерического и совкового по стилю агитпропа о том как огромная злобная Россия вероломно и без всякой причины раздавила маленькую демократическую Джорджию. О параллельной вселенной я писал по горячим следам: http://neznaika-nalune.livejournal.com/414951.html
Повторяю, этот поворот соверженно неожиданный. У меня остаётся достаточно скептический взгляд на перспективы российско-американских отношений при новой администрации (хоть и лучше чем было бы в случае Маккейна). Но, по-видимому, всё далеко не безнадёжно. Обама, кстати, на второй день после выборов поставил на место
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