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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.
As for Gachechiladze, Mikhail Nikolaevich spoke to him face-to-face in June. Then the parties did not find a common language. Now the situation may have changed.
As for the negotiations, according to David Bakradze, the dialog can gave a thematic character: «We must speak on such important subjects as constitution modifications and constitution committee, changes in the election system, deoccupation of Georgia, external politics and everything that must unite all political forces with healthy values».
Irakly Alasania has more or less the same opinion. «First of all we are speaking of creating a normal environment for an election; second: mass media must have editing liberty, especially «Obshchestvenny Veshchatel»; third and most important: dissociation of law enforcement structures from political and election processes. A civil mechanism of control over the security services must be developed. These issues are the first to be resolved, and this cannot be achieved by mere critics. One of ways out of the crisis is to reach an agreement between the government and the opposition, however painful this process could be», noted Alasania in his interview to the «Rezonansi» newspaper.
The White House refrains from open support of these or those Georgian politicians, but make great attempts to reconcile them. A few days ago the Vice Assistant to the US State Secretary Matthew Brize told Georgian journalists in Ankara that the coming visit of the US Vice President Joe Biden to Georgia means symbolic support of this country, said «News-Georgia». In his words, «the charter of strategic partnership was signed with the Georgian government by the former US government, but the current White House administration is continuing its execution».
But which Georgia does the White House support: the one who entered the Parliament with roses in their hands and made the former political elite leave or the one is trying to repeat the precedent and occupy the cabinets wearing white bandages?
After the visit of the US Vice President Joseph Biden the opposition is promising to remove the iron cages from Prospekt Rustaveli, the main street of Tbilisi. This was declared in a program of the Imedi TV company by the leader of the «Way of Georgia» party Salome Zurabishvili. She thinks the «city of cameras» has played its role.
Thus, coming to Tbilisi Biden can find a traditionally hospitable atmosphere. The Washington messenger can even gain the laurels of a peacemaker reconciling Georgian politicians. The question is: how long such peace will last?
Irina Ptashkovskaya
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