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Journalist sees Putin rewriting history of Georgian war, Medvedev presidency.
Text of report by the website of Russian business newspaper Vedomosti on 10 August
[Article by "independent journalist" Mikhail Fishman: "Putin Replays the War"]
It resembles a special operation. An anonymous video depicting Medvedev as a coward and Putin as the one true father of the victory in the 2008 Georgia war appears on the Net. Putin is immediately asked about this video, and twice in two days. And it transpires that it was he who gave instructions to the president and minister of defence from Beijing on 7 August and he who had sketched out a plan for a Georgia campaign as far back as six years ago.
The result is a big scandal. Tbilisi shouts that …
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