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Saturday
23Jan2010

DirectPoint: Saakashvili became disenchanted with Yushchenko, after election loss

Can anyone explain why do Russian news articles have such long titles? Read the original here...

The closest, foreign-political (1) colleague of Viktor Yushchenko, Mikhail Saakashvili made an unexpected announcement, in which he stated that attempts to form a strong, centralised government under one command (2) in recent years in Ukraine came to no avail. (3)

Judging the outcome of Yushchenko's politics, Saakashvili compared Georgia with Ukraine: 'five years ago the Per Capita Income in Ukraine was 2.5 times larger than the same figure in Georgia, now it is the last one ahead of its neighbour.' 'All these years, the government's team in Ukraine was divided' -he added.

'Absolute majority of Ukrainian people and politicians are friends of Georgia, independently of the whose presidential candidate's camp they belong to. The pro-European direction of Ukraine is irreversible, we and Ukraine will continue our journey in this direction' -repeated Saakashvili.

1) внешнеполитический

2) Doesn't sound very democratic

3) I apologise for a rusty translation... 

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Reader Comments (5)

Just wondering why you filed this post under "gayness." Do you know something about the relationship between these two leaders that the rest of the world doesn't? :)

January 24, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterE. Henry Thripshaw

In conjunction with each other, these two articles suggest that Saakashvili prefers Tymoshenko over Yushchenko and Yanukovych:

http://www.eurasianhome.org/xml/t/expert.xml?lang=en&nic=expert&pid=2295

http://www.rferl.org/content/Did_Georgian_Leadership_Try_To_Influence_Ukraine_Presidential_Election/1937589.html

A souring on Yushchenko can be seen as being part of a realistic evaluation. Specifically, the decline of Ukraine's economy during Yushchenko's presidency, coupled with the tremendous decline in Ukrainian support for him.

Tymoshenko and Yanukovych didn't speak out against Russia's counterattack against the Georgian government strike on South Ossetia.

Unlike Tymoshenko, Yanukovych has suggested possible support for the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

January 24, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterMichael Averko

To be honest I put in the category gayness totally unrelated posts. I thought about it and might change it a little...

January 24, 2010 | Registered CommenterLeoš Tomíček

That's interesting so he is taking Putin’s lead in a centralised government structure (although Russia is trying to reform to bring in more political parties) so he can push through reforms and laws which he was criticised as being “authoritarian” for although Georgia does not have an Oligarchy that controlled the government, Duma, economy and media and use that, a full blown Islamic terrorist insurgency, an economy in the gutter a Weimar state economy and social problems and inherit much of the country run by organised crime gangs and foreign intelligence and governments sponsoring opposition parties and media in Russia trying to overthrow the Russian government and there lackey international media.

This may be the year of terror in Russia where the CIA/MI6, etc can activate there sleeper cell terror network established in the Crimea, Tatarstan, Moscow and St Petersburg, the entire North Caucasus, Bashkortostan and the Central Asian Republics all of which revealed in a 1998 declassified Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Intelligence Information Report (IIR) which I posted in the previous article.

http://www.judicialwatch.org/story/2004/nov/defense-intelligence-report-details-al-qaedas-plans-russia-chechnya-and-wmd

http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/102/dia.pdf

If you know anyone in the Crimea show them this DIA report and get the word of any suspicious activity there recently like any new NGO’s or companies that have sprung up in the Crimea.

January 24, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterjack

@ jack

I bet OBL made overtures to various Muslim groups in the former USSR but how far was he accepted is another matter. Not even the Chechens fully embraced his brand of Islam. It might be possible that some Crimean Tatars will go nuts but I don't see a potential for rebellion. After all, terrorism can be a pain in the arse but not it doesn't make one take control of government or a region. Only a successful insurgency can do that and I believe the Tatars have neither the resources, nor the manpower to accomplish that in the face of Ukrainian security forces and Russian navy...

January 24, 2010 | Registered CommenterLeoš Tomíček

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