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- Authorities leave the middle opposition at the bottom of the ladder 2009-11-20 17:31
- Children Are Children Even in Ossetia 2009-11-19 18:44
- Parliament Can Lose Opposition Again 2009-11-18 16:33
- Bringing to justice for scandal around the Georgian special services 2009-11-17 23:42 The person suspected of a leakage of information about an unsuccessful provocative act made by the Georgian special services is facing a legal procedure. The point at issue is the staged shooting at Lekh Kachinski and Mikhail Saakashvili near the border of South Ossetia last November. The Prosecutor’s Office believes that the secret information was disclosed to the media by former Head of the Polish President’s Administration Peter Kovnatski (see photo).
- Gocha Dzasokhov: we must show free will for the sake of children 2009-11-16 17:44 The story with the Georgian teenagers arrested by the law-enforcement authorities of South Ossetia is growing in details. As the GeorgiaTimes correspondent was told by the disgraced Georgian businessman with the Ossetian origin Gocha Dzasokhov, who is now heading the World Assembly of Peoples of Georgia, he started negotiating the matter with the South-Ossetian authorities.
- Debating policy: one more trial 2009-11-13 14:13 President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili is making his best to use the political lull to soften the current situation. The day before, he ordered the minister of education and minister of health to familiarize themselves with the parliamentary opposition's initiatives. As to the non-parliamentary opposition, its radical wing is about to start a new turn of struggle.
- Quests of the Georgian politics 2009-11-12 15:55 The recently started work of the committee for investigation of death of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia has stuck. One of its representatives stated that the committee should be granted the status of an investigative agency; otherwise, he will step down from office. The status would enable to interrogate the two former State Security Ministers Igor Giorgadze and Shota Kviraya.
- Political phobias of the Georgian establishment 2009-11-11 15:09 Georgia is known for its tendency to make public scandals. Another scandal was broken out against the background of political lull. This time, it was an informational scandal. Former Head of Adzharia Aslan Abashidze accused the Ukrainian media of provocation: they have published an interview that was never taken.
In fact, the oppositional activists are not making any secret of the current summer recess being the sign of an autumn storm. At the end of July, the oppositionists intend to bring thousands of their supporters into the streets in order to show the USA Vice President Joseph Biden the scope of their dissatisfaction with the current authorities. What should Saakashvili do? He is evidently not going to meet the distinguished guest with a special purpose police unit for breaking up the demonstrators, for it will hardly speak in favour of the "democracy leader" in the post-Soviet territory, which the West regards Mikhail Nikolaevitch to be.
The fact that the future amendments will do the country an ill service and will negatively affect its image has been also underlined by expert Soso Tsiskarishvili. "Considering the current situation, I do not think that Georgia will require any more steps that will lead the country back from democracy. Our common desire is to move towards democracy, while the proposed amendments to the legislation rather resemble the steps hastily taken by the frightened authorities than a true necessity", - the GHN agency is quoting the expert.
However, either under the experts', or under the press' influence, or else, out of the self-preservation instinct, the Georgian authorities announced that they are not going to hurry on the new regulations for the protest actions, though the package of amendments to the law has been considered today by the Legal Committee of the Georgian parliament in first hearing.
This decision was confirmed by that very Head of the Legal Committee Pavel Kublashvili, who recently tried to shove the amendments through the parliament. According to GHN, perhaps, such a humiliating manner was deliberately assumed to show that they "have got no desire to listen to the opposition's screaming". According to Kublashvili, the date when the amendments are to come into force has not been agreed upon so far, thus remaining open.
Well, just like the last spring and the beginning of summer, the autumn in Georgia is evidently going to be stormy.
Photo by: Interpressnews
Irina Ptashkovskaya
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