Instability in Georgia puts NATO exercises in doubt
Published: 05 May, 2009, 20:10
Georgian soldiers are seen in a truck at a road outside Tbilisi on May 5, 2009 (AFP Photo / Vano Shlamov)
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Some of Georgia’s partners in NATO may demand to postpone a major military exercise in the Caucasus state following Tuesday’s unrest in Tbilisi.
That’s the view of Mikhail Troitsky, political expert from the Moscow University of International Relations.
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Indeed, and I also heard this thesis elsewhere (some French media). The Georgian gov. could have staged the whole thing, in order to create homogeneisation around the "defense from Russia", and to discredit the opposition, which is portrayed as collaborating with the "Russian invador".
There is no end of theses, Neter. The Russian dismemberment of Georgia is not a thesis, though. Nor is the fact that NATO exercises in Georgia have now begun.