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11.04.2009, 09:20
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A campaign of civil disorder is due to start in Georgia, says the opposition. It follows the expiration of an ultimatum for the president to step down. Mass demonstrations in the capital are set to enter their third day.
08.04.2009, 12:00
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Opposition parties in Georgia are planning mass rallies for April 9 in Tbilisi. The demonstrators are expected to express their contempt for President Mikhail Saakashvili, and demand his resignation.
09.04.2009, 18:14
“This is a country of political culture where the threshold of violence is traditionally pretty low. For Saakashvili this is testing time.” Fred Weir from the Christian Science Monitor provided his comments live to RT.
08.04.2009, 13:06
As the previous elections in Georgia were fraudulent and the next elections will take place in 2013, the Georgian people have no other way but to protest, says one of the Georgian opposition leaders Salome Zurabishvili.
01.04.2009, 03:40
Police in Georgia have detained opposition members who gathered near a restaurant in Tbilisi where President Mikhail Saakashvili was having dinner. Their mobile phones were thrown into the river.
14.07.2010, 18:41
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This week Georgia has become a venue for EU politicians’ visits, including a delegation of the European Parliament that will study the situation on the borders with South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
03.08.2010, 12:55
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Dmitry Medvedev has said he does not know who may be running for the presidency in 2012. Although he mentioned that possibly he or Putin may run, the current president also hinted at an as of yet unknown third party.
Election 2012
27.04.2009, 11:07
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There are a handful of media companies in the US that tend to have one commitment: not to inform the people and serve the public, but to allow their shareholders to make money.
26.08.2009, 22:19
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“Russia, I suppose, had to respond to that [Georgian assault], but the way it responded… was devastating to its image,” says Donald Rayfield, professor of Georgian and Russian Studies at the University of London.
08.08.2009, 17:55
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At least some UK correspondents, who were reporting from the Ossetian war, were not able to deliver their personal opinions [critical towards Georgia] through their networks, says Moscow-based journalist Artyom Drabkin.
Published: 09 April, 2009, 19:47
Fraudulent elections, human rights violations, the economic downturn and president’s ‘political will’ at the core - this is how Georgian human rights activist, Sozar Subari, describes the situation in his country to RT.
