Word: saakashvili
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...balancing act was always going to be a tough one. Moscow has long opposed NATO expansion and what it views as U.S. interference in its traditional backyard. So when, on the eve of Biden's visit, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili reportedly said he was negotiating a new arms deal with the U.S., Moscow grumbled. "We will continue to prevent the rearming of Saakashvili's regime and will take concrete measures against this," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin. "We have deep worries regarding the activity of the Georgian leadership over remilitarizing its country, which several states are responding...
...have frightened those who want to frighten you.' NINO BURDZHANADZE, Georgian opposition leader, addressing more than 60,000 supporters who gathered on May 26--a national holiday--to call for President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation...
...break up a revolt by some 500 soldiers on a military base in Mukhrovani, one day before NATO embarked on sensitive military exercises nearby. Officials painted the mutiny as a covert Russian coup attempt, which Moscow flatly denied. The uprising comes at a bad time for President Mikheil Saakashvili, who faces mass protests calling for his resignation over his handling of last year's war with Russia...
...leaves NATO with no alternative other than military confrontation. She fails to acknowledge that Russia has played a key and improper role in supporting the opposition protesters on Georgia’s streets, and she fails to admit that the protesters refused to carry on any discussions with the Saakashvili regime except regarding the terms of the democratically elected president’s resignation. She fails to recognize Russia’s profound military weakness (while invading Georgia, many of its officers were reduced to communciating on their personal cell phones) or the effect of the nation?...
...Saakashvili has called the exercises a “symbolic event,” and it appears clear that, at least in Saakashvili’s mind, the purpose of these maneuvers is to demonstrate NATO’s solidarity with Georgia and its willingness to defend Georgia against Russia, if need be. Given the suggestions that the August war was at least partly the fault of Saakashvili’s recklessness, however, it seems likely that any suggestion that NATO will come to his aid will only make him bolder, particularly in the face of domestic calls...