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When Mikheil Saakashvili led Georgia's bloodless "revolution of the roses" to oust Eduard Shevardnadze as President in November, he demonstrated formidable political skills: an ability to excite a crowd, a flair for clandestine organization, a taste for brinkmanship. Now President Saakashvili is using those skills to try and bring Ajaria - one of three breakaway regions - back into the fold. An economically important Black Sea region, Ajaria is run by Aslan Abashidze, a tough, rich autocrat Saakashvili has called a "feudal chief." When the President turned up on Ajaria's borders, ostensibly to campaign for allies running in the March...
...Tbilisi, supporters of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili, a U.S.educated lawyer, stormed the Georgian Parliament after weeks of demonstrations against blatantly rigged parliamentary elections. The next day President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned, and this month Saakashvili was elected President with over 90% of the vote. TIME's Paul Quinn-Judge caught up with him last week. the events of Nov. 22 seemed very organized. How long had you been planning your strategy? We'd been prepared for the past two years. It was obvious that Shevardnadze would go the oligarchic route of succession - the group around him would transfer power to someone...
...states than a country. Like Afghanistan, many of the leaders in regional provinces have far more authority than the government in Tbilisi and view the central authority with varying degrees of skepticism. In order to prevent terrorist activities from formenting in Georgia, the leading candidate for president, Mikhail Saakashvili, if elected should concentrate his efforts on shoring up the Tbilisi control and reducing the influence of regional leaders...
Georgia’s future depends on whether Russia can resist the urge to play a role in Saakashvili’s efforts to transform the country. Saakashvili, who is likely to win the election in January, is an American-trained lawyer, but he is inexperienced and he may be susceptible to Russian efforts to instill a malleable atmosphere in Tbilisi. Given the economic incentive for Russia to exploit the region’s resources, and the security concerns in neighboring Chechnya, it seems unlikely that Russia will see Saakashvili’s ascent as any significant reason to change...
...J.F.K. is my political idol." MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, U.S.-educated opposition leader in Georgia who helped bring on the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze and is favored to replace...