‘Saakashvili’s government is a semi-democratic regime’
Published: 10 April, 2009, 01:44
Georgian special police forces prepare to disperse opposition protesters from in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, 07 November 2007 (AFP Photo)
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Georgia’s government of Mikhail Saakashvili has not met the democratic promise of the Rose Revolution, but this does not make this regime a dictatorship.
That is according to Lincoln Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Practice of International Politics at Columbia University, who joined RT live from New York.
During Georgia's Rose Revolution of 2003, Professor Mitchell was a key figure for the US-based National Democratic Institute in Tbilisi.
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