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the days of flake. just. keep. it different georgia was built in front of the very. nature was dismissed and the president personally approved the new ridiculous constructions. holes shaped like giant pipes they were erected in tbilisi ruining the historical parts of the city it's clear that the georgian authorities were keen on putting form over substance besides the capital the president experimented on the city of but to me several point just skyscrapers were built. philly regarded everything is as personal villa he got on his private jet landed here and then threw parties with lots of girlfriends the boulevard was closed off of course this is
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outrageous this was the case not just and but to me. to tbilisi to. georgia's ruling elites combined a passion for western ways with russia phobia traditionally the vast majority of georgian spiegel understand the russian language and the history of bushie every family is linked with russia and all of a sudden georgians were forced to think that anything russian is bad lessons were dropped from curriculum in schools and movies with banned from television a new generation of georgians grew up not knowing a single word in russian. we don't get to speak russian often. there is much more practice in english. to be looking for the cause of this hatred to anything russian demo. by seconds
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really miss teen does seem strange because they were all born and grew up and this will be here yet. we're always looking for some philosophic roots for these. all this so you ask why there is a simple reason why they link their career their wellbeing their future their own only with the west but not with the interests of georgia. the establishment specifically the former ruling elite are extreme rusa photo ops. when they play they even show contempt or through the georgian came kali to home plate. well ordinary people feel russians are closer to us than europeans.
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and every georgian village people still remember the times of the soviet union with nostalgia it was a time when russians and georges lived together in peace and visited each other regularly of course since the old generation that still has these memories of it so did you watch the old soviet movie father of a soldier you plow the land first and then you sow the seeds likewise first comes russia and then europe we should lose russia those who lived in those times who saw what it was like back then want to get back to the old ways. of the young people don't understand it they didn't live back then. they can only get this experience from us. of a needs that has worked his whole life is a pot make to produce to sell in russia hundreds of why import so unique georgian pan's can't see he now lives from hand to mouth i doubt if he will use does go to russia to sell apples or whatever and they are in their income this way now they.
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don't want us any more they don't let us ordinary people are struggling looking for whatever food they can come across. time is passing us but we never had any democracy don't trust those talking heads on the television. no dorry says that young people sometimes came from russian lessons but he complains that he doesn't speak as well as before just. everyone wants to chat in russian. they want to learn it it's much more difficult to do it now. it was in november two thousand and seven when the top down system of power built by mikhail saakashvili showed its real face for the first time the authorities launched a heavy crackdown on opposition protests attended by tens of thousands of georgians people hit the streets to demand that the president resigns. the army and the
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police that were formed by. prove their allegiance by shooting at people with the bullets and threatening them with battle. at the very avenue. they celebrated the revolution embraces saakashvili beat us up he opened fire on us ordinary georgians it was for the first time the georgians saw that the mission they voted into power in two thousand and three could be a different man altogether any government that goes against its own people will end up in jail saakashvili will also end up in jail by then the president's closest says he is in defense minister. became an exiled. me should you have made a big mistake you will go down in history as georgia's most corrupt president. the government put down the brutality of the army and the police to the simple allegation that the protests were straight to. the kremlin the release which was
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supposed to convince the nation really had no other choice than he had to defend democracy it was a trigger words in georgia one q. why did the international community keep quiet. after such a cynical and brutal crackdown by the police. why. really managed to convince many in the west. it was an operation planned by russia's main intelligence directorate and the federal security service or the kremlin or all of them together. everyone was waiting for the onslaught of the russian tanks. but i think that we were going to raise the red flag. in november of two thousand and seven also showed that the democratic authorities were going to welcome any criticism from the journalists t.v. station he made he was the first victim of the new regime. i see them entering our office they are about to break into the studio something terrifying is going on i
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hope they won't use force so here they are about to get into a studio goodbye and. that was the evening when george's house for the freedom of speech was crushed since then the media space has been exclusively pro president. says not a single component of democracy was functional in those times elections were not fair courts were and show. this situation in the mass media was disastrous. t.v. networks could not broadcast nationwide audience unless they played. really called an early presidential election in january two thousand and eight so to say face his main contended this time was. the lines.
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that was a dirty campaign with heavy mudslinging directed at me and at the united opposition our purpose was to bring down a dictatorship because that was a tacit dictatorship we won the election and january fifth two thousand and eight the election commission unlawfully named second the victor and then the bush administration lee and later russia back to. within less than a year the georgians would approve the outcome of that election. you won't need we shall keep on fighting russia hasn't just invaded some country in the caucasus with its tanks it is invaded europe georgia is the forefront of a word against evil the just two thousand and eight came is annoying for many georgia suffered a humiliating defeat and its people learned the basic taste of fear and the casualties that could have been avoided. on top of that the west never came to the
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rescue is really had hoped they would and the georgians had a chance to glimpse their presence valor in action it's worth. it that was a shameful scene that i can neither forget not forgive to this day. deserves to be put in prison for the events of two thousand and eight alone even if we weren't told him. on the ship to lead us to a disaster and cause our country to be split up at best but that calls for punishment doesn't it. the georgian government propaganda machine works day and night shaping the narrative of the moral. purpose the georgian public is convinced that russia has occupied and caused the end. southall said by recognizing their independence today
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five is on the horse in tbilisi still cannot stomach defeat. more than go to the you can see skin vaal as a last battle but the war is far from over eighteen percent of our territory is under occupation. by the war will continue until georgia's territorial integrity is restored. we should always remember as winston churchill famously said he would have to be naive to believe that russia respects anything but force. russia could have imposed harsh sanctions against georgia in the wake of the war but didn't when the reasons for that was the fact that there are about a million ethnic georgians living in russia they've done their best to support their relatives in georgia. says regular georgians appreciate that age. more than george in public. has learned no lessons from the
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conflict with russia in two thousand and eight. faith in the might of the west. idea that the west will come to our rescue has become an article of faith for georgia's political elite. and the georgian government launched a witch hunt to find someone to blame for the defeat. of the end of the war general tristen. and one hundred fifty army officers were arrested and charged with high treason. was personally introduced to the comforts of a georgian prison when they woke me up in the dead of night and took me to some decrypted building one of them through a gun and said shoot you if you don't sign this. i told them we'll shoot me then i won't sign this because it's all fiction then they took my children hostage my son
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was ten and my daughter fourteen years old. they would walk into our cells and say plainly you'll rot here afraid the rest of your life. really has been formally recognized as a political prisoner and apparently made no difference to the georgian government whether a suspect was an active duty general or a military advice and with the georgian mission to nato. spend several years working on behalf of his country for the nato headquarters in brussels but that helped him a little once he was charged with espionage. he spent almost four years in detention. they maintained that i had been spying for. russia the cia the british intelligence service the french intelligence oh yes and al qaeda apparently through doku motto of.
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the fact that the military practice any given moment in. people you know doing. is basically like like a normal wrist that you actually drag somebody out of his house in the middle of the night dhoni difference is that the person that you are arresting is not really wanted for anything this is just for practice for training the soldiers now obviously one of the reasons that it's being done even older to actually train which is problematic but i would say that if you look at the whole. testimony of hundreds of soldiers you will see that the main mission. there the palestinian society as a whole not just the gunmen men women and children everybody needs to be afraid of you because that creates effective control over the palestinian population.
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know it's about a region because explode and they explode in a really vicious fashion it's a way for us to go to the islands of this war because we're not doing here old in a civil war is that your position no matter who is it it's a serious issue which is why should people that doing something that is of all we're doing nothing and only a hundred and the last of the arabs receive your publisher is he or those around my ears even across the bureau and initially handle the rest ok you good to finish the question one way and i've seen the line of peter lavelle to my line. the west did assist georgia was the war was over they extended credit and dispatched teams to build settlements for the new displaced refugees the village of a baby was arrested by a german construction team several rows of thin walls similar looking cause just the village lies within walking distance of simba those are our mountains and
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beyond them is our land we used to have everything their good houses our own gardens here we have to buy everything. they're running away no one has supported us in all this time the government what good is it it was them who brought this upon us if not for them we would be fine now. has an ailing mother a brother and sister who have stayed behind in sin vo she has never seen them in five years refugees have been stuck away from their native villages strangers in the eyes of locals the only hope these people might see is the hope of going home one day. that we will return. when if not us our children will come home. will be so it must be good for. them no i don't want to stay here i want to be home.
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i miss my family i have met with my sister but i cannot see my brother and i want to meet my mom who is sick my friends and schoolmates. my teachers and my neighbors . this war was a mistake we need to make peace with this. otherwise we will never get any better. the war of two thousand and eight georgia's political elite away from brush of a good the same time he really became something of a pariah for the international community. he is no european nation would welcome the president of georgia for an official visit he was seen as a disappointment even by the americans who took to calling him a loser behind his back. from the georgian leader. the. false patriotism is the last resort of scoundrels. and i just he found himself in this role and he exploited it in every possible way the boonies
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so. he used it to assert himself beyond limits feasting on it it would be pointless to look for any rational reasons here. the woman. for the fall and georgians of world war two was the first of all victim to the new policy. on that it was the mall morio was over there all over by that tree. today there were any seventy two veteran still alive in could see see his really however wasn't concerned about the memory of that war or the veterans opinion. three hundred thousand died in the war one hundred twenty three of them were heroes of the soviet union it's a sign of utter disrespect i don't think anything one except for fascists could have done such a thing. but it turned out there was no other place in georgia to build
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a new parliament. it looks like a trudeau sort of a. lot of us flowed. out of. oh it's. two thousand and twelve was a critical year for georgia a new political figure appeared been seen at ivanishvili. cost of the revolution of the roses this billionaire supported the young democrats and fussed he says he spent almost a billion dollars on their initiatives but later he became disillusioned with second israeli and in recent years he distanced himself from politics and was mostly involved with charities to the sea now has the largest orthodox cathedral in
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georgia. his construction was funded by if an israeli essentially been seen and vanish really was the only person with enough money and power to challenge second israeli on october the first two thousand and twelve georgians used their right to fight. just says that during second israelis rule georgians experience the biggest turmel's since world war two. in the last nine years almost three hundred thousand people have had some experience with georgia's penitentiary ery system they were read their imprisoned or came in. contact with the system in some other way. our people have never been traumatized like this before. we are this poorest but the safest country but we paid an extremely high price for our safety.
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georgia has the highest number of prisoners per capita. cyclist's of political prisoners were longer than those in north korea and a fair bit of these facts are backed by european observers as well that. people enjoy just say that just ahead of the election many was swayed by for the age of torture and abuse in georgian prisons by local television. indignation for stronger than anger and people voted for a vanished released blog if it weren't for ivanishvili i think it would have been a rerun of one thousand nine hundred one he would have started shooting at each other it's all because of me pushed it too hard on people. because of the three young reformers who emerged out of the revolution of roses and stood for a political spring just one is a major player in politics. now calls mikhail saakashvili puzzle enemy.
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usually yup of course i realized i was an enemy for him. in your mirror but unfortunately i wasn't lucky in my enemy didn't prove to be worth fighting he crossed the red line he put pressure on my family and my children but what's more important is what he has done to my country. shows a child featuring sec israelis approval rating over the past years today it's as low as one of eduard shevardnadze in two thousand and three when he was basically blamed for anything that was wrong in the country history repeats itself. gives you an idea of the evolution of approval ratings of mr saakashvili it was as high as seventy three percent in. when he came to power with triumph change and here's august two thousand and thirteen just fourteen percent. according to demi's saigon elite said the leader of the parliamentary majority campaign manager of the blocks nominee the ruling coalition will not repeat mistakes. i
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spent my political career in the opposition. and i remember what kind of methods were used against it i will not allow the use of these methods against the opposition ever again. relations with russia getting more and more complicated the ruling party led by event really says it's ready segment eyes were brushed but indicates it will not happen overnight i haven't been to russia for ten years. and i don't speak russian very well now you know or. not. but i will speak russian. we are fully prepared to revive our friendship with the russian federation. we realize that it will be difficult. i hope that russia will feel the same way about georgia. together with his
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supporters cockup indicated say is now writing a book called two hundred years of occupation according to him georgia never wants to be part of the russian empire it was conquered he says such sentiment is still present in. abkhazia and south of our part of georgia. i hope that georgians will never elect a government that would follow a different policy. knowledge a different political reality. through russia and georgia have what we call red lines unfortunately these red lines cross we are not so much concerned about visa. or mineral water or wine exports to russia we are more concerned about our territorial integrity about the skin vell district this is our concern. ultimately only mean or nazis conducts a good campaign saying she knows how to negotiate with moscow. pound weakling you
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suggest true we are in a dead end unfortunately. but there is always a way out. yes just like as a motorist you would agree with me that sometimes in order to move forward to a longer route i think you need to back down and to make a u. turn or a left or right turn and then you're on the right track again and when you get it only. i think we must do it with this. the past nine years that we're trumpeted by second really as the time of democratic reforms actually lived invade the unemployment rate remains very high standing at more than forty percent. but even i mean to be honest little has changed for us politicians fighting for power and advantages that still what it used to be. the residents of the old someplace tired of the experiments of the regime the election
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is seen as a new hope for the better they don't even want to talk about cycles really he's been consigned to the past. we don't need the old president enough is enough here thinks about his pocket and no one thinks about the people. but also for the time being no one in georgia knows what policy the new authorities are going to take but most georgians have learned one lesson from the presidency of seconds really there's so much between george and some russians and you can destroy a relationship that spans many centuries with just one striker as people in tbilisi say georgia cannot relocate itself into space to some other continent russians and georgians are bound to live together forever regardless of the name of the possible future president threw up his young back.
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the economic growth in the u.k. they talk about g.d.p. annualizing up three percent growth but that's annualized get nine percent growth and higher if you put the debts that are off the balance sheet like on the bank of england back into the mix the debts compound at twenty percent a year so three percent a year in g.d.p. growth even though it doesn't even discount for the actual inflation number the fact is you can count me in negative territory they're living on party farts they're living on corny parts here that's their entire economic so-called growth. some of the sixteen percent imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe
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