Press Digest 10.01.2014

“By posing as an investor, Russia aims to invade our economic affairs”

“We will not allow Bokeria’s Zone to destabilize the country!”

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“By posing as an investor, Russia aims to invade our economic affairs”

“According to official as well as unofficial information, the Caucasus might soon become the next target of Muslims. Obviously, this will put Georgia’s safety at risk, which is why we do not have the right to keep silent today, as if nothing is happening.

We need to take rational steps and come up with effective measures to minimize pending risks and dangers. In addition, we need to prevent our citizens from leaving their homeland for Syria,”- states expert Soso Tsiskarishvili in his interview with the Kviris Palitra newspaper.

Unfortunately, our conscience is not clear since the case of the Lapankhuri special opperation has been gathering dust in the Prosecutor’s Office under the former as well as present authorities.

As it appears, our government has to tackle far more serious issues than finding the truth, restoring crippled justice and our people’s rights. I can assure you that all this is dragging our country backwards.

For me, our Prime Minister’s most recent statement on having little care for Russia’s intention to build a road from Dagestan to Kakheti was immensely surprising. How can you distance yourself from the current developments when Russian passports are being distributed to the residents of Kakheti? It’s simply ridiculous,”- contends the respondent.

Deterioration of Georgia-Armenia relations is what falls within Russia’s plans today. Hence, we need to be on alert and take well-measured steps only. By making the issue of Enguri hydro plant a point of hot debate among Abkhazians, Russia might just be aiming to take hold of it.

Thus, if our authorities remain inactive, I think that we will soon see a Russian presence in the region of Samegrelo as well,”- claims the expert.

It appears that Khajimba is actually the Kremlin’s puppet meekly submitting to its directives. In circumstances such as these, I expect that the necessity of creating a new format of Russian-Georgian dialogue will emerge soon. For instance, if our Prime Minister has his envoy for relations with Russia, why can’t the President have his own representative?”

The last and not the least important issue for us today is that of the Poti port and the emergence of Rosneft there. Keep in mind that this company is illegally carrying out oil drilling operations near the Black Sea.

We all know that Russia devised a plan that provides for invading our country’s economic affairs by posing as an investor.

The only thing that I can do in the present situation is to hope that Russia will not deceive us so easily by making us voluntarily deny our right to independently run our economic affairs,”- concludes the respondent.

“We will not allow Bokeria’s Zone to destabilize the country!”

“Having been subjected to mighty political blows from Free Generation, the satellite organization of the “Nationals” that is the Free Zone has, in fact, ceased to exist. On top of that, the Nationals stopped financing the organization that has allegedly failed to live up to their expectations.

However, a short time ago, we found out that the Zone had been revitalized and its new office was opened in Ortachala.

We have heard through the grapevine that Koba Kabazi begged Saakashvili on his knees to give them one last chance, which is why we converged on the newly opened Free Zone office and pelted it with eggs,”- declares head of Free Generation, Lado Sadgobelashvili in his interview with the Asaval-Dasavali publication.

“Obviously, we cannot forbid a party to exist and this is not our goal. Simply, Free Zone is not an NGO or Youth Movement. This is a group of extremists and a powerful tool in case the “Nationals” decide to stage a coup. However, we are ready to move heaven and earth to thwart the Free Zone members in stirring up the situation in the country.

Free Zone has nothing to do with freedom or other high values. This is not Free Zone, it’s simply Bokeria’s zone,” – maintains Lado Sadgobelashvili.

“By the way, residents that live under the new “Zone office” supported us very actively. They clapped for us and shouted “Long live Georgia without Nationals!” These people are also said to have pelted the Free Zone office with eggs; later they urged its members to move somewhere else as well.

Allegedly, Khabazi, broken and defeated, called patrol police and left the area along with them,” - concludes the respondent.