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To: DebtBomb who wrote (141584)	8/18/2008 10:23:54 AM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Brush up on your Russian. Apparently, some things getting lost in translation For instance, pullback and withdrawal can get confusing. J UPDATE: Russian Withdrawal From Georgia Begins -General Staff . (Updates with comments on pullback not withdrawal, denial of missile deployment) MOSCOW (AFP)--The withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgia under a peace agreement began Monday, the deputy head of Russia's general staff, General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, said. "Today, in line with the plan, the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers has begun," he said in a press conference aired live on state television. Nogovitsyn said, however, there had been a misunderstanding about President Dmitry Medvedev's promise to his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy about whether Russia would fully withdraw its forces from the Caucasus republic. "There is a distinction between the understandings of a 'pullback' and a 'withdrawal'...In the conversation with French President Sarkozy, the discussion was about a pullback of forces, not a withdrawal," he said. Russian forces will pull back to the borders of South Ossetia, the Moscow-backed separatist region of Georgia at the center of the conflict, Nogovitsyn added. "The pullback being discussed is to the borders of South Ossetia, to within its borders. Our forces should not be on Georgian territory," he said. He declined to answer a question about how many Russian troops would remain in Georgia, saying: "I am not ready to name any figures." Nogovitsyn denied that Russia had deployed SS-21 tactical missile launchers to South Ossetia, putting them within range of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. "In this situation there was no need for it," he said of the missile system, after The New York Times reported that the system had been deployed in the region, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The general criticized what he described as Georgian efforts to turn public opinion against Moscow by carrying out "provocative actions," but conceded that Russia's image had taken a beating in the media. "We know that at any minute Georgia is capable of carrying out provocative actions against both military targets and the civilian population," he said. "The attempt to turn the Georgian people against Russia is another crime by the Georgian leadership....We think we have not been doing enough in this information struggle," he added. Georgian tactics have even included "the hiring of mercenaries with Slavic appearance to pretend to be Russian," he added. Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: djnewsplus.com. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day. (END) Dow Jones Newswires August 18, 2008 09:30 ET (13:30 GMT)