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NYT: Georgia has found evidence that Russia is "the first". The West is not convinced, but deals

In the dispute, Georgia and Russia on who unleashed the war in the Caucasus, there is increasing intelligence. A month later, after the war, Georgia issued a record intercepted telephone conversations, which, according to Tbilisi, show that even for the day to the Georgian attack on Tskhinvali in South Ossetia became a Russian armored vehicles. Thus the Georgian government is trying to persuade the West and their own opposition that Georgia was the victim of invasion and went to attack in self-defense, writes The New York Times (Full text on the site InoPressa.ru).

According to the Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs Vano Merabishvili, interceptions of conversations Georgian intelligence had been reported in a few hours after the recording was made. The information was handed over to Saakashvili, who took it as a sign of a Russian invasion.

"These intercepted recordings show that Russia has deployed troops first, and we defend," - declares director of the group analyzing intelligence at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Shota Utiashvili.

- NYT is transferred to the Ossetian
- Russia explains the intelligence data on the "pre-war" troops "normal rotation"
- Media: Russian troops entered South Ossetia before the outbreak of hostilities

In turn to the question, why talk released only now, after more than a month, the head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs explained that during the war file with records lost when the track team moved its operations from Tbilisi, the capital, the city of Gori in central Georgia.

The Georgian authorities reported that last week provided the materials the United States and France, at that time presiding over the EU.

The White House carefully reviewed the record and called the "plausible", indicating that the transfer of Russian troops on Georgian territory occurred earlier than previously acknowledged. At the same time, the U.S. government believe that these data do not lead to definitive conclusions about the aggressive intentions of the Russian side.

Nevertheless, the approval of Georgia on the movements of Russian troops in part supported by western intelligence on which the two Battalion 135 Regiment went through the tunnel in South Ossetia or night, August 7, or the early morning of August 8. In addition, the Russian garrison stationed on the border with South Ossetia have been given Motorized unit and mandated to monitor the northern end of the tunnel, argues Western intelligence.

NYT also mentions the material newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda" (the official organ of the Ministry of Defense of Russia), which contains the words of Captain 135 th Regiment Denis Sidristogo, that the August 7, the parts were ordered to stop teaching and go to Tskhinvali. Later, in connection with the emerging attention to the publication appeared changes: in fact, the alleged transfers occurred in Tskhinvali on 8 August. New York Times notes that contact with the captain Sidristym editorial failed.

NYT is transferred to the Ossetian

Editorial New York Times also obtained a copy of Georgia audio intercepted conversations. After this newspaper hired an independent specialist in Russia on Ossetian and made its own independent translation from the original Russian to and from Russian into English.

"Look, armored vehicles arrived or what?" - Asked a Chief of Staff border guards at the border guard named Gasiev, Dezhurov from the tunnel, in a conversation, which, according to the Georgian side and cellular operator, was intercepted on 7 August at 03:52. "Armored Vehicles and people," - responded border. When asked whether they have passed through the tunnel, he replied: "Yes, 20 minutes ago. When I phoned you, they had already arrived."

The newspaper notes that the recorded conversations did not contain specific data on the number of armored vehicles or evidence that Russian forces at the time involved in the fighting.

The publication also provided copies of independent transfers calls to a number of representatives from the U.S. government and U.S. military that they commented on the recording. They cautioned that while dialogue was apparently taken from the original intercepted conversations on cellular phones, it is impossible to conduct a full or formal analysis, not access the file records of negotiations, collected the Georgian side. They also noted that Washington continues to carefully examine the issue of provocation and response during the conflict. "We continue this study, both in the context of our intelligence analysis, and based on the data that we receive from the field. We were unable to determine who" shot John "- who fired first," - said a senior NYT U.S. military agreed to discuss the matter on condition of anonymity.

Russia explains the data pre-war intelligence about the troops "normal rotation"

Russia, of course, trying to refute the allegations of Georgia, writes the NYT. Last week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin expressed his perplexity at the fact that the West, in his view, is inclined to believe in the Georgian version of events.

Attack of the Georgian side took Russia by surprise when President Dmitry Medvedev committed cruise on the Volga River, Putin was at the Olympics in Beijing, and Defense Minister - rested somewhere in the Black Sea, assured the Russian Lieutenant-General Nikolai Uvarov, a former military attache at the UN.

However, Russia does not dispute the authenticity of telephone conversations, but trying to diminish their significance, arguing that the movement of troops in the enclave before the war was part of the normal rotation and replenishment of the peacekeeping force, stood there for a long time.

Military equipment is regularly included in South Ossetia or leaving through the provision of the deployment of Russian peacekeeping contingent, explained Uvarov. "Because we kept it one battalion, it needed fuel and food. Of course, the movement of troops took place - he said. - But it was not acting Army soldiers who were sent there specifically to fight" . Uvarov added: "Whether it is large reinforcements, we would not have lost to South Ossetia, about 15 peacekeepers."

But Georgia argues that under the peacekeeping mission, which both sides signed in 2004, the rotation of Russian peacekeeping battalion could take place only during daylight hours and with prior notice of at least a month. However, in this case, no notification had been told the newspaper representative of Georgia Shota Utiashvili.

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The U.S. Army is developing methods of "thought control by force" of its military

The U.S. Army has entered into a contract for 4 million dollars from the company, which has developed "telepathic helmets" for silent reading impulses in the brain and secret communications between military personnel. The U.S. military expects will eventually provide "direct telepathic management of military equipment solely by force of thought," writes Time.

Increased computer power and penetration in the mechanisms of the brain led scientists to vigorously work to identify the characteristics of neurological signals that float in the brain when a person mentally talks with itself. Initial military task is to intercept those signals with the help of incredibly intricate software, which then converts them into audio message on the radio, addressed to other soldiers on the battlefield.

"This will without a radio microphone - explains director of the program, a military researcher, Dr. Elmar Shmeysser neurophysiology. - As the war has been trained to express clear, unambiguous and stereotyped expressions, this step until the ability to think in the same way." (Full text on the site InoPressa.ru.)

The device, developed by the military, will receive tangible embodiment (not to mention its practical application) may only 10-20 years. The contract for 5 years, which the army last year concluded with the tender winner - a group of scientists from several universities (the University of California at Irvine, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Maryland), aims to "decode brain activity, so the military can transmit by radio orders from one or many military comrades, just let out the order to himself and to think about who it wants to give.

Initially the "recipient" will probably hear in your headphones synthesized voice, credit reports, but scientists hope to eventually develop a version where the orders would be credited votes to who they prefer, and indicate the degree of remoteness and the location of the speaker on the listener, says U.S. magazine.

"Give the military the ability to communicate among themselves, while maintaining complete stillness - is invaluable, it is important for fighting, and to reduce the combat losses - the application for applicants contract, which amounted to war last year. - In doing so, you revolutionary technology silent communication and focus on areas which by their nature invincible for the sound and light from outside sources. "

The main difficulty - how to develop software that can understand the brain signals corresponding to speech, said publication. These impulses captured system of 128 sensors, which eventually will be built into the helmet. The sensors record the weak electrical charge generated by neural circuits the brain when we think. At the exit produced electroencephalogram - tangled ground lamb on the screen, which researchers will study to identify the signals that are key to communication.

"We believe that we can teach the computer to understand these scribble so that it reads the orders that your brain pays mouth and lips," - explains Shmeysser. Unfortunately, this is not about how to find the only correct of lamb. "There is no" golden neuron, which would be responsible for it "- shows a scientist.

Research project leader Dr Mike Dzmura from the University of California at Irvine said that his task - like finding the correct "Thread" in full plate of macaroni. "We need to highlight important fragments of spaghetti - he explains - and sometimes they have to break and join other". But because the power of computers has been growing steadily, the task can deal in "real time", he said.

In addition, users will have to learn to think 'out loud. " "How can we force the man away to himself any idea in a way that EEG signal was very clear and we are opposed to it from the background noise?" - Wondered Dzmura. Finally, because everyone EEG has its own users' telepathic helmets "will have to undergo special training to computers, intercept their silent orders, to recognize the unique characteristics of each thought, concludes the publication.

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Gazprom paid terminated top managers of 132 million rubles smart

Generous compensation for former "daughter" of RAO UES of Russia "has little to surprise anyone. In 2007, prior to their sale, RAO has approved the "golden parachutes" for the heads WGC and TGC: wants a new shareholder to dismiss the old team - albeit paid, write in Monday Vedomosti. With the highest payments ran Gazprom. In spring Mosenergo to part with four top managers, paying them 94 million rubles. A summer outbreak of this scandal: a DC-2 for three days, immediately withdrew 16 top managers, taking 557 million rubles. The company did not even have enough money to own these payments, had to borrow (WGC now with the former leadership).

And now a new record of the WGC-6 - 132.3 million rubles. Compensation dismissed, the company said in a report of 1 st half of IFRS. And this is only the payment of June, who had two top managers - former director Valentin Sanko and his deputy Alexei Selyakovu, said the manager of Gazprom and a DC-6, with representatives from the companies declined to comment.

For comparison, the publication gave an example: 130 members of the Project Center at the conclusion of the reorganization of RAO (closes case before 1 January 2009) of separation divide 108 million rubles.

45-year-old Sanko in 2005, led by WGC-6, previously worked for 11 years, first in "Vologdaenergo, then in its management company - SEUK. A 49-year-old Selyakov since 1998 has been his constant of economy and finance.

Unlike managers WGC-2, Gazprom agreed payments for Sanko and Selyakova, argues the manager of the group. Although the new job, he has not yet been found, the dismissal was a surprise - "emergency airfield is not prepared."

Tymoshenko and Yushchenko are seeking a common language: Prime encourages "Our Ukraine" to return, the president calls on coalition to retain

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said that negotiations are under way just about restoring democratic coalition. At a press conference on Wednesday, she stressed that "now is not negotiated any other configuration of the coalition, except for a democratic", transmits Interfax.

According to Tymoshenko, if the President and his team return to democratic coalition, then "no reformatting will not."

She also called on President Viktor Yushchenko to influence the pro-bloc, Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NS-NU), so that a revised decision to withdraw from the parliamentary coalition with the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc (BYuT).

"I believe that during the few days remaining before the official announcement of the termination of the coalition, the president will return all back," - said Tymoshenko.

Recall that last week's NU-NA withdrew from the coalition after the BYUT voted together with the opposition Communists and Party of Regions for bills that limit presidential power. The Speaker of Parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk reported today that on the fate of the coalition, he will declare September 16.

At the same time, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in an address to the chairmen called on local administrations to preserve democratic coalition in the face of the collapse of the parliamentary crisis, said NEWSru.ua with reference to the official Internet agency president.

"I urge councils in which the democratic majority, to prevent the collapse of e Ñ and demonstrate that personally motivated acts of individual leaders can be corrected consolidated the will of all public-minded politicians and citizens of Ukraine. I am convinced that our firm position is a sobering state of people ordinary election, and will form the basis for normalization of political life in the country and the real work of this national and democratic coalition "- said Yushchenko.

Also, the President noted that "events have taken place in Parliament, a serious threat to the democratic choice of Ukraine. Priostanovlena activities coalition of democratic forces that pose a risk review of all national priorities. The new parliamentary majority has taken decisions which lead to a change in government in our country contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine and, among other things, the principles of democratic governance, including local administration. "

According to Yushchenko, Ukraine now has sufficient resources to overcome the democratic any political crisis. The President expressed the belief that the political situation in Ukraine, where in fact created a new parliamentary coalition, will be permitted to democratically .

Speaker: voting system "Rada" will soon start its work

On Wednesday the chairman of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that intend to do everything to a new system for voting "Rada" began its work.

"I was unpleasantly surprised by the letter regulatory committee, which came to me yesterday. It turns out procedural committee categorically opposed to the new system" Rada "worked" - Yatsenyuk said at a press conference.

"I'm looking for the answer: Why? Do not want to go to work? Da will still be going," - said the Speaker. "Until such time as long as I am chairman of the parliament, I will do everything to ensure that the system" - stressed Yatsenyuk.

He added that now completing the process of certifying this system, which will need another 2-3 weeks. "Let's see then primarily on the reaction of society" - said the Speaker.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk in late August decided to divorce touch buttons and buttons to vote on the panel electronic system "Rada" in a way that they can not click with one hand.

This decision was taken after the experiment conducted by journalists during a press tour to reconstruct the hall of parliament. The experiment showed that with some skills with one hand while you can touch and press a button and the button to vote.

Before the experiment, one of the developers system explained that for the start of deputies must vote to press the button on the touch panel, and then the very button to vote. According to him, buttons need to hold until the voting.

According Yatsenyuka, after increasing the distance between the button and touch-button voting deputy in the parliament decision will be forced to use two hands, making it impossible to vote for a colleague.

The Speaker said that record in Parliament is considered one deputies voted for while eight of his colleagues. In doing so, he did not name called this "record".