South Ossetia: cultural losses

Today we will talk about the damage done to culture by war. The small republic of South Ossetia has lost nearly a thousand of its citizens as a result of the Georgian attack of the 7th of August. Not only were human lives lost as a result of indiscriminate shelling, but also the invaluable cultural heritage of this country. To talk about this damage were joined on Spotlight by Russias Special Representative for Cultural Co-operation, Mikhail Shvydkoy.

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• South
• Ossetia
• Georgia
• war
• aftermath

[Qartveli84]

Sponsored by the Moscow News. well it sais it all, fucking propaganda. fuck this channel, it is always 100% inacurate news. oh, and fuck evry single russian. red nosed cunts

[HanChineze]

iamartem,

The price of securing South Ossetia is high for Russia, speaking in terms of monetary costs.  However, if Russian Leadership did not take any actions, the costs will be even higher.

-RedChineze

[Iberi1]

According to this UN research the situation differs a lot between the town Tskhinvali and the villages upstream:

- Tskhinvali: 4211 buildings = 175 destroyed + 55 severely damaged + 3981 with no visible damage. (230 affected buildings = 5.4 %)

- The eight villages north of Tskhinvali: 2211 Buildings = 619 destroyed + 201 severely damaged + 1391 with no visible damage. (820 affected buildings = 37 %)

[Iberi1]

In plain words: In Tskhinvali every 20th building is damaged, in the ethnic Georgian villages every 3rd.

[iamartem]

Today Georgia is like Germany in 1941!

Georgia pressed by tanks simple people, children. They bombed South Osetia at night. They destroyed the churches there. They cut a choldren's head. It is very hard to write.

[Iberi1]

A nation stays alive when its culture and history stay alive.

This conflict is a source of further anxiety among cultural heritage professionals, not least for what the future might hold for the ancient Georgian sites and monuments. A real worry — and it's a very serious point is that if relations deteriorate further, some people might cause deliberate damage to ancient Georgian cultural sites in occupied Abkhazia and so called "South Ossetia"

[dezza2001]

You want news casts that lie you should check out China news.

[sim0b]

the west and east are as bad as each other. Lies and crooks.