Pseudo revolution in Georgia

Parts of Georgia's opposition clashed with the police during protests on the weekend in the capital Tbilisi. The weekly magazine Ir writes that rather than the start of a new revolution, the clashes represent an attempt by Russia to destabilise the country. "Several factors point to a false revolution. On the one hand the government has done nothing recently that would warrant demands for its resignation or the fall of the president. On the other hand by no means all oppositions groups are joining in the announced revolution. There are various opposition parties and groups in Georgia, and the new 'revolutionaries' include, of all people, those who oppose 'one-sided' cooperation with the West, especially with the US, and advocate a broadening of foreign policy, meaning an improvement in relations with Russia. ... With regard to several of these parties there's every reason to speak of a 'Moscow project'."

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