Andrei Dmitriev, editor-in-chief of APN North-West and chairman of the political council of NAROD, interviewed Eduard Kokoity. Kokoity is, to put it mildly, blunt. - The media are actively debating how many people actually died as a result of the Georgian aggression. Many journalists and human rights advocates dispute the figure of 1,500 to 2,000 and say that in reality the death toll was only a few dozen... - The damage is enormous, and the casualties are still being counted. For these scumbags, it probably would have been better if Tskhinvali had been wiped off the face of the earth, if this military operation codenamed “Clean Field” had been carried out. They behave like their counterparts—Georgian journalists who entered South Ossetia with the troops in order to film a blitzkrieg. That probably would have suited them better. They would have celebrated in Moscow. I understand them, because many of them have family ties to Georgia. But even Georgians themselves do not react this way: look, for example, at the statement by the Georgian diaspora in Moscow. I sympathize with Georgians—not because Georgia lost, but because Saakashvili and the other scumbags running that country have disgraced the Georgian people. I am sure that people like Venediktov, Latynina, and others would rejoice if Russia were to lose and collapse—God forbid. That is precisely why they are on the air. I want to say to these mutants of journalism: no matter what they write, we pay absolutely no attention to them; we neither see nor hear them. Because they are simply inhuman. And the fact that today they show no regard for the deaths of so many Ossetian children and women may come back on precisely such people, on their families, on future generations. That will be God’s punishment for them. God sees everything. It is clear that in this situation Kokoity is speaking emotionally. And I have not the slightest desire to stand up for Latynina, but E.K. has gone completely down the wrong path. Quite a choice of enemies. These attacks of his will only strengthen sympathy for the unhinged Latynina, with her “Iskander” and her “people in the Caucasus told me.” As for what he has against Venik (Alexei Venediktov’s nickname), I do not understand that at all. He supported the “compulsion to peace” (the official Russian term for the 2008 military operation) and, as I understand it, recognition of independence as well. And he gave as much airtime as needed to supporters of South Ossetia. In short, he was very wrong to do all this.