A. ILLARIONOV: Actually, we have already named some of them. First, this is a large-scale war on multiple fronts; it has begun, but it has not ended. Second, this is not an Ossetian-Georgian war, nor an Abkhaz-Georgian war; it is a Russian-Georgian war, in which neither the Ossetian nor the Abkhaz side is playing any independent role, and that should be kept in mind. Third, unfortunately, we cannot now say exactly when the war began, but there is quite a large amount of information indicating that many people who were in Ossetia from late July to early August of this year were certain that war would begin, and they came there to take part in the war, and made these statements before August 7. There is, for example, a well-known site—or rather, not a site but a blog on LiveJournal, “Voice of the People.” Bloggers have already identified that this blog was created by the Russian special services for the information support of the operation in South Ossetia and Georgia, and on behalf of the supposed author of this blog, information was posted on August 4 saying that there would be a war: “I came here to fight and to tell people how events are unfolding.” Official statements from the State Committee for Information and Press of the Republic of South Ossetia throughout the beginning of August reported preparations for war. In fact, messages from many residents or people who were in Tskhinvali said that there would be a war, that Russia had promised us help, why hasn’t Russia come yet—these messages, these statements, were made on August 5, 6, and 7. http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/personalno/534948-echo/ This somehow passed me by. Does anyone know which blog it was that was later exposed as having been created by the special services? UPD: It turns out this is the blog r**upor_naroda.** It is run by a real person, Alan Kochiev. y**ashin,** who also considered the blog a "Kremlin PR operation," apologized to him three days ago.