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november two thousand and three are still very avenue in tbilisi people are protesting against and wish him a nod say demanding he steps down as president thirty five year old mikhail saakashvili storms the parliament is wearing a bulletproof vest under his coat his supporters are holding brosius the new revolution needed a symbol side is really challenged the man who had supported and defended him this happens in politics a new page in history often starts with betrayal. and yes telling. i-l. say it is a love of course he was scared he didn't know what would happen. mostly cheers he had almost gone bush by also was mostly concerned about himself and band result him that post poll he didn't care much about the safety of innocent people like a full bottle of.

georget shows in two thousand and three was covered with roses at first a single shot was fired during this revolution the young leader came to power up back then it seemed the euphoria would never end but put it into the right perspective georgians practically worship saakashvili in two thousand and three and nine years later the same people took to the streets shouting mishit. what happened to these people why didn't george i wish the west considered him a beacon of democracy in the caucuses turn out to be a very different country why is this energetic young leader hated by the majority of georgians now how has power to change the young reformers and ways georgia had it now.

now it's all vias to everybody that this was a scripted revolution that had a clear goal in the organizers use methods that time it didn't seem to matter in november two thousand and three george it was going through a political spring the grace awakening hundreds of thousands of georgians took to the streets really believing that life would change for the better. the people didn't want to see old politicians in power they wanted young democrats they call seconds really she ran yeah a needle to denounce a full three of them were forced to stick together playing roles of loyalty members of the they had to establish this formal union because there. was pressure from the

people but they didn't really like each other didn't respect each other and knew everything about each other. who basically raised this new generation of politicians gave up his power voluntarily but he warns georgians about possible dangers shouldn't encourage these guys of their cable bill of anything. people close to remember how he began his political career. he was a young man with a degree in international law from kiev's university of international affairs very friendly sociable and charming. later it became obvious that he was unstable. just wasn't one of his characteristics. there is a small country basically everybody knows everybody here people knew that young

mikhail saakashvili was from an educated family this is me said when he was a little. bit cynical soviet biography school the leadership position in university in military service in the soviet border troops but after the fall of the soviet union seconds really got the chance to study abroad he did it with the help of his uncle a u.n. diplomat in ninety ninety five sex really returns to georgia with his dutch wife. his friend. promised him a parliamentary seat as part of the union of citizen of georgia it is that those of the south interestingly enough some have never talked about the fact that he didn't just start his political career in this party but was even the leader of the parliamentary majority that supported. and when he criticised his government in his public addresses never mentioned the fact that he himself use. to

be a minister of justice in that government and to help his hand asking people to vote for him but i feel. like. in this hyperactive young minister with his populist ideas the georgian you. know even the panther skin you haven't come down from the trees the. russians still wear shoes. young. very important lesson at that time there are no friends in politics his thirst for power often scared even his own party members. of course he wants to be the leader and he will do anything for that position. literally anything in justifies the means. he often says to his close allies know this if i have to i will sacrifice my own mother who raised me by herself and that

was true. nobody can stand in my way but if you stand next to me i will never forget it. anyone who joins my team will be duly rewarded. i'm a very sentimental person sentimental very often when i see sad movies. often cry i'm a very gentle person but i am forced to fight all the time. he said. when he became president in two thousand and four and received all the power sex really started with some radical reforms. of the diplomatic academy so so since i was a was an advisor to the president at the time as a true joy. he is sitting at

a table talking about those times he says that governing a country is not as easy as making it takes knowledge and skills whereas really and his team just powered through the load a young team of reformers came up with on realistic projects but they were rookies. they thought the people support us. we have all the power what else do we need a. second release first order of business was to fire all corrupt policemen and hire new people who had nothing to do with the old system for two months there were no police in georgia. only for them or the police reform at the mall is small miracle. i remember how cops used to stop my car and ask. would you donate

to the police fund and they had to pay. and then suddenly. we have police. who don't take bribes. former defense minister and former education minister of georgia dmitri says the georgian police reform was the most successful initiative in countries georgia was one of the most corrupt countries in the former u.s.s.r. but in nine years it was able to get rid of corruption. somehow it was able to get to the point where you can no longer be stopped by a cop asking for a pride in this country you can have your passport done in five minutes and you don't need to pay anybody. the georgian army was at an unprecedented rate at the same time the authorities didn't make a sequel to the georgian cannons would a match in case of war. before we go into the army reform was based on the idea

that russia was our potential enemy. was in armenia and azerbaijan or turkey or russia was a threat for us so preparing for a potential carrillo warfare was among our tasks. the georgian armed forces were formed according to the west an image at that time georgia set a world record by increasing its defense budget thirty times. having secured the us supports the un prison drastically georgia westwood he was moving towards withdrawing from russia's sphere of influence and integrating into naysay actually georgia had already made such a turn in the course of its history. georgia made his first attempt to withdrawing from russia's sphere of influence and finding a western patron in the early twentieth century after the collapse of the russian

empire the mensheviks established the georgian democratic republic that when turkey lost this invasion from the south the georgian authorities also germany to help them soon after that the german expedition we call landed in the port of but to me . at the time europeans viewed the men should make george as a bacon of democracy and bassy and of liberalism and social justice according to the second international delegates who would often travel here to enjoy the local wine georgia became a civilized corner of asia. however the admiration of georgia stopped when it became a soviet republic in one hundred twenty one. and. today they're talking about economic and cultural expansion indifference to me some of it to me is areas are taken by trucks only where they live and. all our major projects such as hotels. turkish. other than the economic influence we're also dealing with

the demographic presence which is quite noticeable. looks at this matter somewhat differently. has historical and political influence. it was. really one of the first expropriations of the loops the. property was returned to the state treasury price in that instance the young reform to seize property from the relatives and the. son in law. they are not authorized. the monthly. pensioners and teachers will be covered by this amount that had been transferred by schaeffer nazis daughter from new york. in february two thousand and five the anti corruption struggle receded into the background. georgia was shocked when prime minister. this century to second man in

the country died in mysterious circumstances. on the money with the business of russia. one hundred days remaining. days of flame.

and. peace found and his friend. in a rented apartment in this building. they died of carbon monoxide poisoning were however they were just in season the official version. did the fingerprints of the deceased were not discovered in the apartment and was missing one shoe the mysterious death of the prime minister numerous room is and theories you will get. in the morning the authorities rush to say the prime minister died of carbon monoxide poisoning because of a fold with brady inmate he said. but you know the role mr blood showed a mix of hemoglobin and carbon monoxide. will come from throughout its concentration exceeded forty percent whereas a lethal dose for

a human being is twenty percent of the time i and economy should really was the lead independent forensic scientists in georgia the fact that statements of this kind made prior to the autopsy just boosted doubts. that it wasn't carbon morningside poisoning the question is whether it really did happen in bed strange apartment that what they wanted to make it look like solid evidence but they failed . there were no fingerprints. those people were sitting there eating and drinking how come they didn't leave any fingerprints anywhere. of course it wasn't an accident it was a planned assassination. now eight years later the circumstances of zero death still remain a mystery for the entire georgian society however that society and the georgian authorities had radically changed by two thousand and five. little while of course

it was an isolated governing system which began transforming into an autocratic regime and the system decided not to investigate the prime minister's death. we believe it was an assassination it wasn't just a murder it was an abomination. my initial i should really who openly expressed outrage towards the unprofessional investigation into the media personally experienced a change of atmosphere in the country when i woke up i saw a man standing in the door. she was wearing a black coat and a black mask and he was pointing a machine gun at me and my daughter. was the first thing i said was please do not scare my child i thought there were some burglars. i said please take all my money but did not kill my child. and then they told me that i was accused of organizing a coup. i burst out with relief and said praise god.

my was charged with nothing less than preparing for a coup de ta in the form of an armed insurgents. it wasn't even funny according to them i was going to bring several hundred people together arm them. and then assess the night. force of course the internal affairs minister back then. and we know boys are not set and then psych us through it as well when meyer admitted her guilt she was sentenced to probation and released from custody but that didn't make her life easy. job. i was forced to admit something i wouldn't even dream off in my worst nightmare so since it doesn't have been living with it for six years now this is something i can't tell anyone not even my daughter i couldn't even calm down my daughter and tell her the truth. i felt like jews in

a concentration camp who had to wear star marks for a recognition. that i felt like i was bearing a mark in my home country which i loved so much. i was not like others i wasn't allowed to do anything i was allowed to stay alive and i was supposed to be thankful for that. but i don't know if. it turned out however that the police reform had some downsides arrest on charges of espionage will organize a coup were conducted on a large scale politically motivated trials for one another under the pretext of fighting corruption the authorities took away people's businesses the company was managed by a record the president's loyal support. stolen money as you call it how large was the sum return to the budget. the only in the last three months the sum reached about twenty million ten million dollars so the prosecutor comes up to him

and says looking did you say you can pay seven million dollars and if you do. you go if not you will go to prison. back then according to those in the know there were cases of businessmen suddenly waking up in the middle of the night and voluntarily signing their property over to the states or officials loyal to cyprus really. it was one of those who refused to do that a few years ago he owned a successful business in the oil industry. so our gas was in every gas pump in the country. they took away zones business and arrested his children to hold it over him for persistent. compline zol was sentenced just sixteen years in prison. i spent four years in prison there were twelve to go. near a petrolia is the head of one of the most reputed opinion poll companies he was the first one to disclose the results showing that in terms of people's trust george in

place was second only to george's paycheck the second. no they don't take bribes anymore but here's the dilemma. would it be better if the police were corrupt but weren't protecting one single person in office. or is it better for them to be honest but at the same time spare no effort to keep such a party the united national movement in power personally i would prefer the former . polls conducted by in europe a truly is research center show that despite georgia's democratic advances the standards of living in the country is still one of the lowest among the former soviet countries. the only things that about forty nine percent of georgians can afford to buy today are food and clothes.

georgia's economy took a serious hit in two thousand and six the government sente russian rhetoric calls this agricultural country its biggest export market the russian one. says my little cellar where i keep my wine right here. is a used to be considered the most successful businessman in georgia nicknamed the wine king when russia imposed the embargo his company lost about eighty percent of its profits. many companies have gone bankrupt and many companies growth was stunted in the former soviet countries brand awareness of our products is high we need to invest ten. times more to generate such levels of brand awareness in the united states or europe today. combine two kids who served as a minister of economy and a second really believe the opposite that the embargo benefited georgia's developed economy as it prompted businessmen to search for new markets in two thousand and

five russia was george's number one trade partner and now it's in sixth place. and that's only because georgia didn't closed its borders for russian goods is that one of. the ordinary georgians who worked in the allies on the valley picking grapes lost their jobs because of the embargo. that was a tough it was give the is there of hope for the better with the well if we're able to export to russia again things will get better for sure. a little bit which. was.

israeli was busy terrorizing business and depriving the country of export markets the role of the democrats in the international arena he was putting on a show it was small free country struggling against. neighbor was a success that made an impression on the west. when the e.u. official was plain in brussels he knew he was going to a young democracy which naturally would have some problems. doesn't. everyone makes mistakes but you know everyone makes mistakes principle has a negative side to it it can become an excuse for anything. george w. bush's visit to georgia in may two thousand and five was the high point of the

charade aimed at convincing the audience of the triumph of democracy. then the american president called georgia a beacon of democracy sex really on his part swore allegiance to western values and named the road from the international airport to downtown tbilisi george w. bush the georgian president has always understood what it means to make a grand gesture. that's how saakashvili operates he was born to work in p.r. and create images that's the way his mind works i can say that because i am one of the few people who knows him very well. it's a color of his tie a wearing american army to inspect the troops or stage performances like when he valiantly drove russian peacekeepers. he was walking and they were retreating before him. of course they were he was the georgian president what were

they supposed to do shoot him such things were carefully planned. thinking of. all it takes he always considered how his actions would look. for example inviting mccain and giving him a soviet made gun was heavy on symbolism since mccain served in vietnam and was shot down by soviet pilots it errored all over the world that's what he was trying to achieve through any means. before a circus really was to visit a georgian town houses had to be painted in a rush and local citizens dressed up the conventions of the ruling party the united national movement for an exact replica of the republican conventions in the us. if we succeed this boy with an angel like face will be living in

a completely different georgia.

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another day and yet more damaging revelations to the case communications had cooled his documents to fill the length that he went to to keep the mass surveillance program secret. today the price of membership london's being forced. a staggering twenty seven billion pounds a year for complying with many regulations. plus nato ties are put to the test as turkey turns away from its allies in seeking a missile the fans deal with china.