tv Documentary RT October 26, 2013 6:29pm-7:01pm EDT
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oh. who. are the. november two thousand and three mr valli avenue in tbilisi people are protesting against and wish him a nazi demanding he steps down as president thirty five year old mikhail saakashvili storms the parliament he's wearing a bulletproof vest under his coat his supporters are holding brosius the revolution needed a symbol really challenge the man who'd supported and defended him this happens in politics a new page in history often starts with the trail. and your fellow. i.l.
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say it is a well thought out of course he was scared he didn't know what would happen. on bush or by alltel was mostly concerned about himself and band result him that the hospital didn't care much about the safety of innocent people a full but. george it shows in two thousand and three was covered with roses at first not a single shot was fired during this revolution the young leader came to power back then it seemed the euphoria would never end but put it all into the right perspective georgians practically worship sexually in two thousand and three and nine years later the same people took to the streets shouting misha. what happened to these people why didn't george i wish the west considered him a beacon of democracy in the kooks is turn out to be a very different country. young leader hated by the majority of georgians now how
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has power to change the young reformers and which is georgia headed now. now it's all b.s. 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
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didn't want to see old politicians in power they wanted young democrats. really. in the north to denounce a full three of them were forced to stick together playing roles of loyalty members . 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 and we shouldn't encourage these guys of you know their kids a bubble of anything. people close to second is really 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. and charming. later it became obvious that he was
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unstable hyper emotional. patients. but just wasn't one of his characteristics you could. throw in. your is a small country basically everybody knows everybody here people knew that young mikheil saakashvili was from an educated family this is me said when he was little . the typical 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 saundra rudolph's his friend. promised him a parliamentary seat as part of the union of citizen of georgia it is that those of
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the south interestingly enough some had never talked about the fact that he didn't just start his political career in sarah not just party but was even the leader of the parliamentary majority that supported shevardnadze. when he criticised knives and his government in his public addresses never mentioned the fact that he himself used to be minister of justice in that government. to help his hinde 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 parents are skinned you haven't come down from the trees yet. russians still wear strong shoes. very important lesson at that time there are no friends in politics powell often scared even. his own party members. will push he wants to be the leader and he will
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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.
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he said. when he became president in two thousand and four and received all the power surge fairly 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 georgian 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 sec is 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 israelis first order of business was to file. corrupt policeman and high
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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 to the police fund and they had to pay. and then suddenly. we have police. who don't take bribes. form a defense minister and former education minister of georgia dmitri says the georgian police reform was the most successful initiative in all countries georgia was one of the most corrupt countries in the former u.s.s.r. and in nine years it was able to get rid of corruption. somehow it was able to get
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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 real that an unprecedented rate of the same time the authorities didn't make a sequel to the georgian cannons would a match in case of war. before the lower duty army reform was based on the idea that russia was our potential enemy. it was in armenia and azerbaijan or turkey 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 western image at that time georgia set a world record by increasing its defense budget thirty toy. having secured. the u.s.
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supports the un prison drastically georgia westwood he was moving towards withdrawing from russia's sphere of influence and integrating into nato actually georgia had already made such a turn in the course of its history. georgia made its first attempt to withdrawing from russia's sphere of influence and finding a western patron in the early twentieth century to the collapse of the russian empire the mensheviks established the georgian democratic republic that. this invasion from the south the georgian authorities to help them soon after that the german expedition we call landed in the port of but to me. that's a time europeans view dimension george as a bacon of democracy 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. the admiration of georgia when it became a soviet republic in one hundred twenty one.
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today they're talking about economic and cultural expansion. some of the areas are taken by where they live. or major projects such as hotels or a turkish should. other than the economic influence we're also dealing with the demographic presence which is quite noticeable. at this matter somewhat differently . it has historical and political influence. it was he. really had one of the first expropriations of the roots. clans property was returned to the state treasury. to seize property from the relatives and the ousted. would not see his son in law all they did is nephew they
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are not authorized. to be so you know would be the monthly debt to all georgian pensioners and teachers will be covered by this amount that had been transferred by sugar nazis daughter from new york. in february two thousand and five the anti corruption struggle receded into the background. george you were shocked when prime minister. this century just second man in the country died in mysterious circumstances. that we've talked about a lot of lies apart complication months on the show before that that ben bernanke m.r. carney are trying to monetise or flatulence that's the that's the economic growth in the u.k. they talk about g.d.p. annualizing at three percent growth but debts annualizing at nine percent growth
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and higher if you put the debts that are off the balance sheet like on the bank of england back into the banks 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 commies in negative territory they're living on carty farts they're living on corny parts here that's their entire economic so called growth. right to see. her street. and i think picture. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. the end of. this.
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however they were just sees in the official version. 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 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. 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.
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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 was 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
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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 also 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 in a. force of course the internal affairs minister back then.
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and we know boys are not 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 easier. suddenly i was for. 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 cannot 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 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 turns
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out however that the police reform had some downsides 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 iraqi or personally the president's loyal support. stolen money as you call it how large was the sum return to the budget. in the last two months to some reached about twenty million lottery or 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
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states or officials loyal to really. 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 noncompliance. was sentenced to 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. wouldn't it be better if the police were corrupt but weren't protecting one single person in office. or is
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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 . the polls conducted by truly is research center show that despite george'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 sent the russian rhetoric this agricultural country its biggest export market the russian one. this is my little cellar where i keep my wine right here.
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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 is really believes 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 close its borders for russian goods says that one of. the ordinary georgians who worked in the el is only
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valid picking grapes lost their jobs because of the embargo. wolf it was a tough it was is there of hope for the better with this well if we are 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
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a show free country struggling. to show it 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 and who does and. 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 to see george w.
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bush the georgian president has always understood what it means to make a grand gesture. that's how. 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. to inspect the troops stage performances like when he valiantly drove russian peacekeepers. he was walking and they were retreating before. of course they were he was the georgian president what were they supposed to do shoot him such things were carefully planned. thinking of. 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
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was shot down by soviet pilots. all over the world that's what he was trying to achieve through any means. before the circus really was to visit a georgian town houses had to be painted in a rush the 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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proximately 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. they enter our territorial waters they fish they load the fish on to the ships and leave for europe. to day illegal fishing is taking the bread out of our mouths.
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one hundred days remaining. one hundred days of flame. just want you. to. look at it so i understand it's go back to libya because for all the criticism that you have about russia and syria russia doesn't want to see syria explode everyone thinks it's russia trying to protect its friend is by geopolitical i just know it's about a region because explode and they explode in a really vicious fashion it's
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a way for me a lot of wings of the horse because they're not doing killed in a civil war is that your position no matter who is it is your salvation is business people that doing something that is a willing nothing and only a one hundred and the logic of the arabs receive your publisher is ok or that is worth my even across the whole i'm nearly handle it how many rounds ok i'll give you good finish the russian oil and i know it's not my machine the line of peter lavelle to my blind.
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let. thousands of protesters converge on the u.s. congress demanding new laws to end mass spying by the national security agency. another day and yet more damaging revelations to the case communications headquarters is still committed sort of build the legs of the g. eight he went to to keep the mass surveillance program secret. and at that moment as the olympic torch reaches the top of the world. it was no hope and here to witness i'm over the real history but this the first time will be the big flame of the of the world all right you rock.
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