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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.
Thus, the "nationals" (as the Georgians call the ruling United National Movement) are no match for the communists, as well as for the democrats, for the ruling majority did not care to listen to the voice of minority in the parliament.
The parliamentary opposition made an attempt to refer to Themis for help. For, if the use of non-lethal weapons has been legalized only recently, it means that the use of rubber bullets in November 2007 and May 2009 was illegal. Consequently, the guilty are to be punished. "You have been stating for two years that the police have had the right to use this kind of weapon; if so, why are you demanding that this use should be legalized now?" - Vice Speaker of the Christian Democrats Levan Vephvadze addressed the ruling party delegates in the course of the debates.
However, the ruling majority kept insisting upon the fact that the current law does not allegedly ban the use of non-lethal weapon in order establishment. The fact was substantiated by the provision of the law stating that the police may use any weapons and instruments that are not banned by the international law standards. Delegate Pavle Kublashvili, one of the project co-authors, has said that the amendments became necessary "to specify the circumstances when the police can use non-lethal weapon".
Thus, it turns out that the ruling party is always right even in today's democratic Georgia. It is no coincidence that "the young reformers" who have made the Rose Revolution are compared in Georgia to "new Bolshevists".
The amendments to the Manifestations Law, as well as the method they are adopted, speak of the fact that the proclaimed dream, the democracy, is being reached using old methods. Moreover, this can be referred to both the ruling majority and the opposition striving for power. The latter is chanting "Away with Misha", having never taken any pains to present its own crisis management program to the public. The question is, where the methods practiced by the Georgian political elite are going to lead.
Andrey Volkov
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