Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Protests In Georgia's Capital Spark New Tension With Russia


From The Christian Science Monitor:

Along the border with South Ossetia, villagers say Russian tanks have recently arrived – their barrels aimed squarely at Georgia.

Ergneti, Georgia - Thousands of people continue to rally for President Mikhail Saakashvili's resignation in Tbilisi. But for those living in villages along the South Ossetian border, the protests have only brought anxiety as they try to reestablish their lives in the conflict zone.

"We're just simple farmers here," says Ilia Kasradze, part of a group of a dozen people who gathered to distribute a recent delivery of firewood in Ergneti, a Georgian village only a mile from the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali. "The protests will spoil things and have a bad effect on us."

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My Comment: Russia is not concerned nor worried about any reactions from President Obama's administration .... for now. During the interim .... they are going to keep up the economic and political pressure on the Central Government of Georgia for as long as they want.

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