By Conor Sweeney MOSCOW (Reuters) - Armed not just with guns but public relations agencies, Russia and Georgia are fighting a propaganda war to shape public opinion at home and abroad with a constant stream of disputed facts about their conflict. 俄国和乔治亚作战部只用枪，还用公关机构。俄国和乔治亚正在进行一场宣传战， 形塑国内与国外的众意，用一连串持续的、相抵触的事实来讨论他们的纷争。 Fighting erupted after Georgia attempted to retake control of South Ossetia, a small pro-Russian separatist province, on Thursday night. Russia poured tanks and troops across its southern border into Georgia to push Tbilisi's troops back. 礼拜四晚间，乔治亚试图重夺俄倾的南奥赛梯时，冲突爆发。俄国坦克和部队涌入 其与乔治亚交界的南疆，把乔治亚的部队逼退。 Both sides are employing Brussels-based public relations specialists who arranged a succession of conference calls for the international media in recent days, with senior government figures striving to put their side of the story across first. 双方都雇用了布鲁塞尔的公关专家，安排一系列的国际记者会，用资深政府人士推销 己方的说法。 Russia wants to convince the world of its role as an honest broker, reluctantly intervening against an out-of-control Georgian president whose forces have carried out ethnic cleansing against the Ossetian people. 俄国希望让全世界相信他们是诚实的仲裁人，十分不甘愿地介入一个脱序的乔治亚总统 派遣其部队针对奥赛梯人进行种族净化行动。 Georgia in turn portrays itself as a plucky little country fighting off the resurgent Russian bear and suffering unfair Kremlin punishment on account of its drive to become a Western democracy and NATO ally. 乔治亚则是要把自己形容成弱鸡一样的国家，正抵抗俄国熊的恶行，且正因为希望加入 北约组织所以不公平地遭受克里姆林宫的惩罚。 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili quickly sought to convince the world of his struggle in television interviews with global broadcasters, CNN and BBC, saying his country was "at war" with Russia and appealing for Western help. 乔治亚总统Saakashvili很快地进行说服世界的任务，在国际记者如CNN和BBC访问前 诉说他的国家如何与俄国「为战」，并请求西方介入。 But the spin hasn't helped clarify the many disputed facts. 但这些抵触的事实对於厘清事情真相没有帮助。 Each side has accused the other of causing heavy civilian casualties and wildly varying figures have been issued on deaths and injuries. 两边都在谴责另外一方造成严重的平民伤亡，用夸张的数据把发布的死亡和受伤数据 灌水。 Georgia says it has shot down 10 Russian fighter jets in four days of fighting, but Russian top brass put the figure at two on Sunday. 乔治亚说他们四天内击落十架战机，但礼拜天时俄国说法则是两架。 The two sides even disputed whether a Georgian ceasefire was under way. Georgia said it gave Russia's ambassador a signed note from Saakashvili ordering Georgian troops to cease fire at 5.00 a.m. (0100 GMT). 两方还在为到底乔治亚有没有停火争执。乔治亚说已经给俄国大使一个Saakashvili 签名的手札，命令乔治亚部队於凌晨五点停火（格林威治时间凌晨一点）。 Interfax quoted Russia's Foreign Ministry shortly after as saying it received the note but the fighting continued. 俄国媒体Interfax则引述乔治亚外交部说法，说俄方收到手札了，但战事仍在持续。 TV BULLETINS Across Russian television channels, big headlines have appeared decrying a "genocide" in South Ossetia, with images of wailing women, bombed buildings and frightened children edited together in quick succession. 俄国各电台的大型头条是惊悚的南奥「种族屠杀」，用哭泣的女人，炸毁的建筑， 以及吓傻的小孩剪接成步调很快的剪辑。 In Georgia, only one television channel was operating at the start of the conflict and all .ru Russian Internet sites were briefly blocked, though they were available by Sunday evening. 在乔治亚，从冲突开始就只有一个电视台在运作，且所有.ru的俄国网站都被暂时挡住， 虽然在礼拜天晚间都开放了。 Although the separatist capital of Tskhinvali was the centre of the fighting, with the town in ruins, independent reporting was impossible as journalists, photographers and cameraman took shelter underground to avoid coming under fire. 虽然南奥首都Tskhinvali是冲突焦点，其城镇成废墟，记者却无法进行独立报导， 摄影记者和摄影师都躲在地下室里躲避炮火。 "City turns into human hell, many people still trapped under rubble" stated the banner running across the Russian state-controlled English-language TV channel Russia Today that seeks to broadcast the Kremlin line overseas. 俄国官方控制的英语电视台打的字幕是「城市成人间炼狱，许多人仍然困在废墟之中」。 这个电视台主要将克里姆林宫的说法对海外播送。 The figures for death tolls was also disputed. South Ossetian officials claimed at least 1,400 people died in the first night of artillery shelling, but have yet to fully substantiate this claim. 死亡数据也有争议。南奥赛梯官方宣称至少1400人在第一晚的炮击中丧生，但还没有 提出证据证明这个说法。 The separatists also say around 30,000 refugees have fled northwards though other reports put the figure arriving in North Ossetia at just a fraction of this. 分离份子也说约有三万名难民往北逃，虽然有其他报导指出到达北奥赛梯的人数 不过这个数据的一小部分。 Mindful of Georgia's importance to the West as an energy transit corridor from the oil-rich Caspian, a Georgian minister accused Moscow of attempting to bomb a key oil pipeline running across its territory. 一名乔治亚部长指控莫斯科试图炸毁贯穿乔治亚国境的油管；他了解乔治亚在西方 心中最重要的价值就是连结欧洲和里海油气资源的能源走廊。 Russia denied attacking any non-military target and independent experts pointed out that the pipeline was in any case already out of commission because of an explosion in eastern Turkey which knocked it out last Tuesday. 各国否认攻击任何非军事目标，而独立机构专家指出，油管老早就在上礼拜二时 因为一起东土耳其的爆炸事件而停止使用。 As the conflict widened, to take in the second Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia, Georgia accused Russia of being behind a separatist-led military operation there to retake some territory from Georgia while Moscow denied any involvement. 当冲突扩散到第二个乔治亚境内希望分离的Abkhazia区域，乔治亚指控俄国支持分离 主义份子主导的争夺乔治亚领土的军事行动，而莫斯科否认任何形式的参与。 Even at sea, the fog of war descended on Sunday. Georgia's security council secretary Kakha Lomaia said its Black Sea port of Poti, which had been bombed by Russian jets in the early hours of Saturday, was now being blockaded by Russia's navy. 就算在海上，战争的迷雾也在礼拜天遍布。乔治亚的安全会议秘书长Kakha Lomaia说该国 的黑海港口Poti，在礼拜六清晨被俄国战机轰炸後，现在已经被俄国海军封锁。 A senior official from Russia's military chief of staff, Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn dismissed this claim. 一名俄国资深的军事参谋长Nogovitsyn上将则否认这个说法。 He insisted that only weapons shipments would be intercepted, though Georgia said wheat and fuel -- not guns -- had been blocked. 他强调只有武装货物才会被拦截，虽然乔治亚方的说法是面粉燃料而非枪枝被挡住。 (Editing by Michael Stott and Mary Gabriel) c Thomson Reuters 2008 All rights reserved http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-Georgia/idUSLA53600320080810?sp=true 烦请注意附上原稿来源 -- --

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