If NATO punishes Russia, Russia will punish NATO back

Deputies will discuss questions of South Ossetia’s restoration and recognition of its independence. Experts say that Russia ’s President Medvedev will need to recognize the independence of the republic, although the decision will have no legal force anyway. Russia’s single-handed recognition of South Ossetia’s independence will entail absolutely no legal force for other countries.

In the meantime, the Union of Cable Television of Georgia informed the administration of Russia's RTVi channel of ending its broadcast in the country, Echo of Moscow radio station said.

It was the only Russian channel, the programs of which were broadcast in Georgia since the beginning of the armed conflict in South Ossetia.

Georgia decided to cease the broadcast of the channel after it aired an interview with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who harshly criticized the actions of the Georgian government in the unrecognized republic.

It is worthy of note that the Georgian government banned the broadcast of Russian radio and TV channels in the country and denied access to all .ru domain websites.

The informational isolation of Georgia from Russia is connected with the politics of its administration to conceal the truth about events in South Ossetia, Aleksei Venediktov, the general director of Echo of Moscow told Interfax.