the history of virtually every family is linked with russia and all of a sudden to think that anything russian is bad lessons were dropped from curriculum in schools and movies were banned from television a new generation of georgians grew up not knowing a single. 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 demonstrated by seconds really does seem strange because they were all born and grew up in this. we're always looking for some philosophical roots for these. so you ask why well there's a simple reason they link their career their well being their future the 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 all through the georgian came cowley. well ordinary people feel russians are closer than europeans. and every georgian village people still remember the times of the soviet union with nostalgia it was a time when russians and georgians lived together in peace and visited each other regularly of course since the old generation that still has these memories. did you watch the old soviet movie father of a soldier. first and then you sow the seeds 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 way. young people don't understand it they didn't live back then. they can only get this experience from us. has worked his whole life is a pot make produce to sell in russia hundreds of wine pots so unique georgian can't see he now lives from hand to mouth people used to go to russia to sell apples or whatever and they are in their income this way no they don't want us anymore 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 ask him for russian lessons but he complains that he doesn't speak as well as before. 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 always the 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 police that were formed by. prove their allegiance by shooting at people with bullets and threatening them with battle. at the very avenue. they celebrated the revolution embraces saakashvili beat us up he opened fire.

sword neary georgians it was for the first time the georgian soldiers that make sure 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 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 by the kremlin the release which was supposed to convince the nation the second really had no other choice but to defend democracy it was a trick that was in georgia once. 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 that 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 hope they won't use force so here they are about to get into the 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 come. and in

a democracy was functional in those times elections were not fair courts weren't show. this situation in the mass media was disastrous. t.v. networks could not broadcast to a nationwide audience unless they played to the tune of the saakashvili clan. really called an early presidential election in january two thousand and eight so to say face contended this time was the. leader of the opposition the lines. 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 name the victor and then the bush administration way and later russia back to. within less than

a year the georgians would improve the outcome of that election. you won't 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 way just two thousand and eight came as annoying open if a many suffered a humiliating defeat and its people learned the bitter taste of fear and the casualties that could have been avoided. on top of that the west never came to the rescue and really had hoped they would and the georgians had a chance to glimpse their presence in action it's worth. that was a scene from a 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 were told. the faults on the show lead us to a disaster and cause our country to be split up the best that calls for punishment doesn't it. the georgian government propaganda machine works day and night shaping the narrative of the war it has served its purpose the georgian public is convinced that russia has occupied and caused the end salvo said by recognizing their independence today five years on the whole simplicity still cannot stomach defeat. more than go to them you can see skin vaal is a lost 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 you 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 sure jin public. has learned no lessons from the conflict with russia in two thousand and eight the. faith in the might of the west. idea that the west will come to our rescue has become an article of faith for george's political elite.

in the georgian government launched a witch hunt to find someone to blame for the defeat. of the end of the war general tristen city. 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 is 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 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 he 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. had spent several years working on behalf of his country at the nato headquarters in brussels but that helped him a little once he was charged with espionage. he spent almost four years in detention. but they maintained that i had been spying for. russia the cia a the british intelligence service the french intelligence oh yes and al qaeda apparently through doku ahmad of. with the pledge it was a terrible mistake now i'm very hard to make out a little endless again a little longer there's

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an army corps. instrument. on. 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 v.x. baby was arrested by a german construction team several rows of thin walls similar looking cause just the village lies within walking distance of symbolic those are our mountains and beyond them is our land we used to have everything there good houses our own

gardens sure we have to buy everything. the walls are rotting 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. now has an ailing mother a brother and just sister who've stayed behind in sin 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. but i got the. win if not us our children will come home. probably so it will be so it must be good for her. and i don't want to stay here i want to be home. and i miss my family i have met with my sister but they 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 stone george's political elites away from brush it for good at the same time it really became something of a pariah for the international community. 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 and he provokes more phobia and jingoism from the georgian leadership. more sympathy it's just 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. some which he used it to assert himself

beyond limits feasting on it it would be pointless to look for any rational reasons here. the woman see for the fall and georgians of world war two was the first to fall victim to the new policy. on that it was the moment rio was over there all over by that tree but. today there are any seventy two war veteran still alive in could see see his really how it wasn't going to and about the memory of that war all 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 anyone except for fashion. could have done such a thing. but it turns out there was no other place in georgia to build a new parliament. and it looks like a turtle sort of a. lot

of us. oh it's. two thousand and twelve was a critical year for georgia a new political figure if it had been seen a ivanishvili. const of the revolution and the roses this billionaire supported the young democrats and first 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 d.c. now has the largest old dogs cathedral in georgia. his construction was funded by

it and it's really essentially been seen and vanish really was the only person with enough money and power to chinese second israeli on october the first two thousand and twelve georgians used their right to fight. 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 area system they were re there imprisoned or came in contact with the system in some other way. our people have never been traumatized like this before. and we are the. poorest but the safest country but we paid an extremely high price for our safety. 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 misha who pushed it too hard on people. comes 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. usually yup of course i realized i was an enemy for him. unfortunately i wasn't lucky in my enemy didn't prove to be worth fighting he crossed the red line to 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 second release 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 two thousand and four when he came to power with triumph. and here's august two thousand and thirteen with just fourteen percent. according. saigon elite said the leader of the parliamentary majority campaign manager of the blocs nominee the ruling coalition will not repeat mistakes. i 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 supporters cock up and a good say is now writing a book called two hundred years of occupation according to him george you never

wanted 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 or acknowledge a different political reality. with both russia and georgia have what we call red lines and unfortunately these red lines cross we are not so much concerned about visas or mineral water or wine exports to russia we are more concerned about our territorial integrity about the skin vell district this is arkansas. ultimately only mean or would you not see as conducts a campaign saying she knows how to negotiate with moscow. about leaks is i mean you suggest true we are in a dead end unfortunately. but there is always

a way out. yes i like him as a motorist he would agree with me that sometimes in order to move forward 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 when you get only a look i think we must do it at this. 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's still what it used to be. the residents of the old someplace tired of the experiments of the regime the election 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. because of 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 is second is really there's so much between george and some russians and you can destroy a relationship that spans many centuries with just one strike 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 is that young back.

some of the sixteen percent of 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. but the territorial waters they fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths.

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two years out of the force ouster of khadafi by nato forces libya stands at the abyss the lack of a strong central government weak rule of law and the endless violence in a country awash with weapons has resulted in libya facing failed state status as. the presence of islamic militants can things get any worse. they're doing whatever they want in syria these days and even the obama administration can do nothing to rein the saudis in and i think the sad answer is that the united states doesn't want. it doesn't have the leverage that it wants tries to work through allies three international organizations and occasionally on its own and deal with the court of public opinion. the best america can but there are there is a lot in the toolbox right now not many tools like.

the fact that the military is practicing in any given moment. 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 differencies 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 bites but i would say that if you look at the whole of the testimony of hundreds of soldiers you will see that the main mission around. 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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