Russia has issued new, reduced casualty figures for the Georgian conflict, with 133 civilians now listed as dead in the disputed region of South Ossetia. The figure is far lower than the 1,600 people Russia initially said had died.

In reality, however, Russian prosecutors announced that so far they have identified 133 of the killed civilians. See the difference? I mean, for God's sake, don't they know how to read in England anymore? Perhaps they are in such a rush to push out a sensationalist headline that they don't let their common sense to interfere with their "news reporting". The fact that Britain's leading news agency is state-controlled is bad enough, but this kind of nonsense raises questions not just about BBC's objectivity, but about its professionalism as well.

In 1999 NATO was bombing Yugoslavia using precision-guided bombs and killed more than 2,600 civilians. So what do you suppose would be the number of civilian casualties if for several hours you used heavy artillery and MLRS to bombard a town with a population of 40,000? According to Georgian military commanders - no civilian casualties (every Georgian thinks that all Ossetians are criminals and subhumans), and according to BBC "journalists" - 133. Both need to stop smoking crack.