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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.
So what will happen now? How will it all end?
The current situation will probably become permanent. Blood that has been shed is more enduring than a border outlined by politicians. For the time being, only Russia and Nicaragua have recognized the two small countries. A few further states are likely to recognize them in the near future, if only to spite the United States.
But do the small Caucasian countries need mass recognition? They still won't pull in forty embassies, and the slightly sour Abkhazian mandarin that Russians know so well is not likely to oust the sweet Spanish one with a cool label on the side from the European markets. Of course, Psou and Lykhny are very nice wines - but in Greece, Italy, France, Hungary, even Germany, they are more than happy to drink their own wines. There's no space for either Abkhazian or the Ossetian wine in any store in the West.
Just a few years ago the principle of the inviolability of borders helped maintain stability in Europe. The decision by the Western countries to seize Kosovo from Serbia has torn the only clamping ring off the barrel. What one side does can be replicated by another. I'm afraid that a whole series of alarming surprises lie in store for us.
I am an optimist. And I hope that the Caucasian chalk circle won't exist for a lifetime. If the people in power change, then Tbilisi, Moscow, Sukhumi and Tskhinvali will realize that it is more costly for themselves to fight with their neighbours, that a common economic and cultural space is far more important than political ambitions and ethnic grievances. And then the old accounts will lose any meaning. After all, the independence of the green hill called the "state of San Marino" does not stop the Italians from sleeping easily at night, and the French are even proud of the famous casino in the independent principality of Monaco. I think that in the future, people in Tbilisi will begin to regard the sovereignty of the small republics with just as much equanimity as people in Moscow have about the independence of Georgia itself.
Leonid Zhukhovitsky
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