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AFP Photo / John Thys 09.04.2009, 21:23

“Protests will not result in Saakashvili’s resignation”

“If Saakashvili tries to dissolve the opposition by force, that will be the end of his political career. He will do his best to avoid this,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine.

09.04.2009, 19:47

“Saakashvili has established theocratic regime”

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.

11.04.2009, 09:20 3 comments

Opposition: time for Saakashvili decision

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.

Tskhinvali / RIA Novosti / Mikhail Fomichev, STF 04.03.2010, 18:22 8 comments

Russia opens new criminal case against Georgia

Russia has charged Georgia with genocide and the mass murders of Russian citizens in South Ossetia during the 2008 military conflict, while new criminal charges are pending.

15.03.2010, 16:56 3 comments

Georgia suffering backlash over media-staged Russian attack

It is just another ordinary Saturday night in Georgia - with one difference: Russian forces are pouring across the border, the president is dead and the opposition is in power.

14.04.2010, 14:35 2 comments

Nicaragua, South Ossetia establish diplomatic relations

The Foreign Ministers of South Ossetia and Nicaragua, Murat Dhulioyev and Samuel Santos Lopez, have signed a declaration in Tskhinval establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.

05.11.2009, 20:43

Georgian officer granted refugee status in Russia

Former Georgian navy lieutenant Alik Bzhania, who fled to Russia earlier this year to seek political asylum, has been granted refugee status.

Georgia's President Mikheil Saashvili and a U.S. military instructor 16.08.2009, 09:21 12 comments

Georgians question alliance with the US

While the US is sending marines to Georgia to train a Georgian battalion, set to be deployed on a mission in Afghanistan next spring, ordinary people in Georgia are not so sure the country has chosen the right friend.

26.08.2009, 22:19 8 comments

“Saakashvili did something very stupid and very wicked in attacking Tskhinvali”

“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, 20:42 4 comments

Putin: Georgia could have maintained its territorial integrity

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says Georgia could have kept Abkhazia and South Ossetia within its territory if it had treated its people with respect.

‘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)

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.

 
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