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“It’s political theatre, not a coup”

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Recent events in Georgia look like a political theatre,but not a coup, says Andrey Klimov, head of the State Duma committee on European co-operation.

Klimov joined RT amid Georgian Interior Ministry claims thatb it had uncovered a plan to overthrow the government, hatched by former senior military officers.

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