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| | Rose Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Georgia held parliamentary elections on November 2, 2003 which were denounced by local and international observers as being grossly rigged. | | | Rose Revolution: Demonstration at the Mayor's Office, Freedom Square, Tbilisi | | | Georgia had been governed by Eduard Shevardnadze since 1992 (President of Georgia since 1995). |
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| | Color revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Orange Revolution in Ukraine, followed the disputed second round of the 2004 presidential election and led to the annulment of the result and the repeat of the round—leader of the opposition Viktor Yushchenko was declared president, defeating Viktor Yanukovych. | | | The Rose Revolution in Georgia, following the disputed Georgia legislative election, 2003, led to the overthrow of Eduard Shevardnadze and his replacement by Mikhail Saakashvili after new elections were held in March 2004. | | | Each time massive street protests followed disputed elections and led to the resignation or overthrow of leaders considered by their opponents to be authoritarian. |
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| | Revolution - Voyager, the free encyclopedia |
| | English Revolution – (1642-1653) – Commenced as a civil war between Parliament and King, culminating in the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a republican Protectorate. | | | Bolivarian Revolution – (1998) – Venezuela elects populist Hugo Chávez. | | | Revolutions of 1848 – (1848) – Wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept Europe. |
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| | In Defence of Marxism - Georgia's "Rose Revolution" |
| | According to the Constitution of Georgia, the Chairman of Parliament, Nino Burdjanadze, was to become the head of state. | | | On November 24 the world was informed that a Rose Revolution had taken place in Georgia and that Shevardnadze had resigned. | | | Saakashvili visited Shevardnadze and after speaking with him,Saakashvili said that the President of Georgia had resigned and that a Rose Revolution had taken place in Georgia. |
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| | Georgia: Flags used during the Rose Revolution (November 2003) |
| | The so-called 'rose revolution' led to the ousting of former President Shevernadze. | | | Ms Burjanadze came to notice outside Georgia during the "Rose Revolution" when she acted as President after the resignation of President Shevardnadze. | | | The revolution started in the beginning of November following elections considered as rigged by the opposition and ended on 22 November with taking over of the Parliament by the opposition and Shevarnadze's resignation. |
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| | Two mysterious deaths in the Georgia's "Rose Revolution" regime |
| | The “Rose Revolution” of November 2003 brought about the downfall of the government led by President Edward Shevardnadze. | | | Alongside the parliamentary president, Nino Burjanadze, and the current president, Mikheil Saakashvili, he was part of the “revolution troika,” which placed itself at the head of the movement. | | | In 1992, he was voted into parliament and was regarded as one of the most important opponents of Swiad Gamsachurdia, the president at that time. |
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| | Publius Pundit - Blogging the democratic revolution |
| | After the November 2003 Rose Revolution the Supreme Council of Justice, a deliberative body under President Mikheil Saakashvili, was authorized to prosecute and fire judges in case of “disciplinary” abuse. | | | In the two years since the Rose Revolution, an apparently widespread government practice of taming judges through “disciplinary cases” has evidently tipped the already fragile balance among the judicial, legislative, and executive branches in favor of the executive. | | | Georgia experienced the Rose Revolution in 2003, serving as an antecedent for Ukraine’s Orange Revolution (as well as democratic revolutions elsewhere). |
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| | Georgian News |
| | Two months later, the leader of the Rose Revolution, Mikheil Saakashvili, was elected President of Georgia in an internationally recognized free and fair election. | | | Economically, Georgia has undergone a rebirth since the Rose Revolution. | | | One year ago today, Eduard Shevardnadze resigned and the corrupt regime ended. |
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| | RIA Novosti - World - Constitutional coup took place in Georgia simultaneously with "rose revolution" |
| | The leader of the opposition party noted that despite the active promotion of the "rose revolution" in the world, certain facts testified to "serious regress in the progress of Georgia." He said that after the "rose revolution" three television companies and six newspapers had been closed due to government pressure. | | | MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - A constitutional coup took place in Georgia simultaneously with the "rose revolution," Malkhaz Gulashvili, a leader of the Georgian opposition movement Forward Georgia, told RIA Novosti. | | | RIA Novosti - World - Constitutional coup took place in Georgia simultaneously with "rose revolution" |
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| | Georgia celebrates 'Rose Revolution' - Boston.com |
| | Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, left, and his wife Sandra Roelofs, right, greet Romanian President Traian Basescu, second left, and Estonian President Arnold Ruutel, center, during celebrations marking the second anniversary of the Rose Revolution in Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005. | | | More than 100,000 people took to the streets in November 2003 to protest fraudulent parliamentary elections, culminating with demonstrators rushing into the parliament and forcing President Eduard Shevardnadze to flee and then resign. | | | Subsequent mass protests in Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan also helped usher in reformist opposition figures in those countries. |
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| | Enough! The Rose Revolution in the Republic of Georgia |
| | The major event in this new chapter of its history is the “Rose Revolution.” A three week period of political intrigue and public demonstrations in November 2003 led to Eduard Shevardnadze’s resignation, and the result was that a demoralized and lethargic society suddenly seemed to turn into an energetic experiment in democracy. | | | Forces Behind the Rose Revolution (James V. Wertsch); Index. | | | (Zurab Karumidze and James V. Wertsch); The Rose Revolution: A Chronicle and Images (Giga Chikhladze and Irakli Chikhladze); INTERVIEWS. |
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| | Islam Online- News Section |
| | Once in office though, the hero of the "rose revolution" may find the Georgian presidency is a crown of thorns. | | | A day later, the former Soviet Foreign Minister who had dominated Georgia for 30 years resigned, triggering the early Presidential election slated for Sunday, January 4. | | | Georgia To Elect 'Rose Revolution Hero’ As President |
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| | Biography of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin |
| | She and her four nuns were sent to St. Charles, Missouri, where she immediately opened a school; then at Florissant, she built a convent, an orphanage, a parish school, a school for Indians, a boarding academy, and a novitiate for her order. | | | She was born in Grenoble, France, in 1769; her father was a successful businessman. | | | She was educated by the Visitation nuns and, although her father opposed her decision, she entered the Visitation Order in 1788, in the middle of the French Revolution. |
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| | EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Georgia’s Rose Revolution: Momentum and Consolidation |
| | The Rose Revolution — a popular protest over a rigged parliamentary election that cascaded into a political uprising -- forced former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze to resign on November 23, 2003. | | | A November 18 roundtable — titled Georgia& Rose Revolution: One Year and Beyond, and co-sponsored by the Washington, DC-based Georgia Forum and the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at Johns Hopkins University — evaluated the successes and shortcomings of Saakashvili& effort to transform the country from a failed state into a Western-style market democracy. | | | One individual, the president, wields an inordinate amount of influence — something that can compound the consequences of policy mistakes. |
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| | Georgia's partner in democracy: US csmonitor.com |
| | But in Georgia, a handful of American flags have been held high among the sea of opposition banners that protesters used to usher in their revolution - waved in gratitude for Washington's role in facilitating democratic change here. | | | Georgia's new leaders hope that their democratic revolution will change that dynamic, and ensure new aid. | | | "We can now teach our children how to defend democracy, using Georgia's 'Rose Revolution' as the example." |
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| | Rose Revolution's Zhvania poisoned |
| | Another Rose Revolution leader, parliamentary speaker Nino Burjanadze, cut short her visit to Italy and is returning to Georgia. | | | Mr Zhvania, 41, was once an ally of former President Eduard Shevardnadze. | | | Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Baramidze is reported to have been asked to act as prime minister on a temporary basis. |
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| | ISN Security Watch - Abkhazia not quite ripe for 'Rose Revolution' |
| | âThe Rose Revolution in Georgia was headed by Saakashvili, and he was the first one to enter the besieged parliament building and then became the president. | | | As Georgia's territorial integrity-bound president sets his sites on reining in the republic of Abkhazia, observers seems to think that a settlement could not be expected before the republic's October elections, by whence Russia will have determined which side it is on. | | | Leonid Lakerbaia, the leader of another opposition movement, Aitaira, has also recently despaired the lack of a maverick Saakashvili-like leader in the republic. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe How to stage a revolution |
| | Slobodan Djinovic watched Georgia's "rose revolution" from his home in Serbia. | | | Mr Lomaia laughs that his organisation now faces an ironic dilemma - its election support programme designed to run until presidential election in 2005 has been cut short by the sudden success of Georgia's revolution. | | | Just a few months before the opposition stormed the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi to demand President Eduard Shevardnadze's resignation, Mr Djinovic was in the city sharing his bloodless revolution experience with the Georgian students. |
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| | America's Georgian Challenge |
| | He is the youthful, center-right leader of the Georgian opposition, which overthrew President Eduard Shevardnadze in the "Rose Revolution" last November. | | | Georgians enthusiastically elected Mikheil Saakashvili President of Georgia on Sunday, January 4, with over 80 percent of the vote in the most peaceful and transparent elections since Georgian independence. | | | Democratic leaders in places like Belarus and Turkmenistan may be learning the lessons of Georgia, just as Saakashvili and his friends learned the lessons of the Serbian revolution that toppled Slobodan Milosevic. |
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| | Tbilisi, Georgia: the rose revolution’s rocky road Neal Ascherson - openDemocracy |
| | Also in openDemocracy on Georgia’s “rose revolution” and its aftermath, see our “Caucasus: regional fractures” debate. | | | This will not be allayed by Misha’s long-trailed replacement of the mayor of Tbilisi, Zurab Chiaberashvili, on 12 July, by Gigi Ugulava, civil-society activist and former leader of the Kmara! | | | After the revolution of roses, the mood of unity and purpose suggested a Georgia which could stand up to any of its neighbours — even, at the diplomatic level, to Russia. |
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| | Georgia’s progress: Fulfilling the promise of the Rose Revolution at Gavin’s Blog |
| | We also see that the message of our revolution - that democracy is universal and can be successful in post-Soviet states - is widely spreading in the region. | | | When my administration took office, three provinces of Georgia were unstable and viewed themselves as independent enclaves: Adzharia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. | | | He marks a year since the Rose revolution with an update on Georgia& progress. |
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| | Per Gahrton, Georgian Rose Revolution |
| | The Labour leader, Shalva Natelashvili, is very much anti-Schevarnadse and has complained to the European Court in Strasbourg about fraud in the previous parliamentary election that barred his party from representation. | | | He predicted that Burjanadse/Zhvania/Saakashvili would force Schevarnadse to resign before the new parliament could legally convene which would elevate Burjanadse to interim President and, according to the Labour leader, give these people the possibility to stage fraudulent presidential elections! | | | There will be no split in the leadership of the Rose revolution, at least not for a year or two. |
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| | Pravda.RU Georgia's "rose revolution" was not democratic change of power |
| | Pravda.RU Georgia's "rose revolution" was not democratic change of power | | | "If you ask me how the government overturn took place in Georgia and later on in Adjaria (Georgia's autonomy), I will say it was not a velvet or a rose revolution. | | | This is what I said at a meeting of foreign ministers in Maastricht," said Mr Ivanov. |
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| | Lebanon's red rose revolution - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 01, 2005 |
| | Lebanon's red rose revolution - The Washington Times: Editorials/OP-ED - March 01, 2005 | | | Karami's cabinet will apparently continue on as a caretaker government. | | | Yesterday, Lebanon's Prime Minister Omar Karami announced his government's dramatic resignation as more than 25,000 demonstrators defied a government ban on protests, flooding the streets in Beirut in opposition to the government, Syrian occupation and the Feb. 14 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. |
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| | Don't Let the Rose Revolution Wilt |
| | For it was in Georgia in November 2003 – before the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, or the purple-fingered elections in Iraq – that a frustrated population took to the streets to demand the ouster of a corrupt and autocratic government. | | | The United States must also help to ensure that Russia plays a constructive role – or at least refrains from assuming a damaging one. | | | When the Rose Revolution bloomed: Opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili (center), now President, needs to be both supported and restrained |
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| | Georgia After the Rose Revolution |
| | Through its research, conferences, publications, and seminars, PSI advocates public policy based on the principles of virtuous citizenship, honor, dignity, and representative liberal democracy, characterized by just government, rule of law, individual liberty and responsibility, pursuit of happiness, and private enterprise. | | | Devi Khechinashvili will evaluate the reforms of the Saakashvili Administration and analyze reforms in Georgia from the perspective of democratic governance. | | | PSI recently completed a comprehensive assessment of democracy in Georgia during the first year after the Revolution. |
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| | Georgia's media under pressure a year after aiding 'rose revolution' |
| | The report also noted that the managers of several media had resigned and were replaced by government sympathizers -- the new head of Rustavi-2, for example, is a former deputy foreign minister. | | | Rustavi-2, which was instrumental helping Saakashvili lead the "rose revolution" last year and continues to back the president, currently owes the government 4.8 million dollars. | | | Many Georgian journalists say that power has turned Saakashvili, a 36-year-old US-educated lawyer who led last year's peaceful "rose revolution," into an authoritarian leader who has no qualms about bullying the press. |
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| | Telegraph News Rose revolution blooms for new Georgian leader |
| | Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, and his Russian counterpart, foreign minister Igor Ivanov, attended the ceremony, along with thousands of Georgians clutching the red roses that came to symbolise their peaceful coup in November. | | | Mr Saakashvili, 36, now Europe's youngest head of state, promised to drag the former Soviet republic out of a mire of poverty and corruption, while treading a fine diplomatic line between the United States, its key financier, and Russia, its old master. | | | The new leader, who won 96 per cent of votes in elections this month, faces opposition from the breakaway, pro-Russian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia - as well as from officials at all levels who lined their pockets during Mr Shevardnadze's decade in office. |
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| | Peaceful protest topples Georgia's president csmonitor.com |
| | Bowing to protesters who had stormed parliament declaring a "velvet revolution" or "revolution of the roses" and demanding that he leave, Mr. | | | Opposition chiefs had vowed to conduct a "velvet revolution," similar to the bloodless coup that ended communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989. | | | TBILISI, GEORGIA - Tens of thousands of Georgians thronged the streets of this Caucasus nation's capital in jubilation Sunday after President Eduard Shevardnadze announced that he had quit. |
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| | Leader of "rose revolution" seen to win Georgia's poll - Jan. 05, 2004 |
| | Turnout was unexpectedly high, with 88 percent of voters who registered before Sunday casting their ballots, election officials said. | | | In the defining moment of the protests, Saakashvili barged his way into the parliament chamber with his supporters, forcing Shevardnadze to flee. | | | Blair visits Iraq, US troops nab senior Kurdish official |
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| | LewRockwell.com Blog: Rose Revolution Darkens... |
| | Saakashvili, the US-installed leader of Georgia was his predecessor "Bloody" Eduard Shevardnadze's right hand man. The US began to tire of sclerotic Shevy and decided that the revolution needed a dose of amphetamine -- or viagra. | | | What is incredible is how easy it is to fool abysmally-educated America into believing that one who would seize power on the guns of a foreign power would be a patriot in his own country. | | | After all, there were pipelines to open and no more time could be spent fooling around with the Russians and various breakaway groups. |
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| | Transitions Online: From the Velvet to the Rose Revolution |
| | But ultimately, 2003 will probably be remembered most as the year of Georgia's revolution, the year when the "wily fox" of the Caucasus, Eduard Shevardnadze, was ousted. | | | Whether other governments, such as Ukraine's and possibly Moldova's, will be unseated because of their neglect of economic and political reform--their failure to manage transition--will be one of the key questions of 2004. | | | In Serbia, the population showed at Zoran Djindjic's funeral what it felt about a prime minister better loved in death than in life. |
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| | Oil intrigue and US Realpolitik heighten tensions in the Caucasus Georgia's "rose revolution": a ... |
| | Rumsfeld is only the most high-profile of scores of US State Department, Justice Department, Treasury and Pentagon officials who are flowing into Georgia in the aftermath of the coup. | | | In the summer of this year, Otpor activists visited Georgia, running courses that trained 1,000 students from all over the country in the tactics of Serbian-style “revolution.” The result was the student group “Kmara,&; which only months later would provide the manpower for Saakashvili& successful putsch of November 22-23. | | | The following day, supporters of the opposition took over the State Chancellery. |
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| | Pentagon chief heads to strategic Georgia to savor "rose revolution" |
| | Pentagon chief heads to strategic Georgia to savor "rose revolution" | | | US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was due Friday in Georgia, a strategic former Soviet republic in the Caucasus mountains, for a visit signalling Washington's support for new leaders who were swept to power late last month in a bloodless revolution. | | | Rumsfeld's visit comes at a time when Moscow and Washington have renewed their Cold War-style rivalry for influence over Georgia, a country seen in the West as a crucial gateway for the export of oil from the nearby Caspian Sea to world markets. |
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| | When Edward Shevardnadze, the president of Georgia, was overthrown in a what CNN dubbed “the Rose Revolution” (on 22 | | | January, nor that he started his revolution against Shevardnadze with a rally at Stalin’s statue in Gori. | | | But, after Marshall’s exposé of the reality behind the almost identical events in Serbia, there can be no doubt that the US takeover of Georgia is a textbook case of covert operations at work. |
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| | RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY |
| | In another move yesterday significant for its symbolism as well as for its practical effect, Burdjanadze rescinded the state of emergency that Shevardnadze had declared on 22 November as his presidency crumbled. | | | She echoed Saakashvili in the joint call for a united opposition, saying, "We should stand on each other's side." | | | Speaking yesterday in the parliament at a lectern decorated by a vase of roses, she showed a deft grasp of symbolism, for many are calling Shevardnadze's ouster the "Rose Revolution." She sniffed a rose, a reminder of those carried by many of the protesters. |
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| | National Review: It's hard to believe that Georgia's Rose Revolution was less than two years ago, and we're cheered by ... |
| | We may soon add another to the list if recent protests in Azerbaijan escalate in the lead-up to parliamentary elections in November. | | | It's hard to believe that Georgia's Rose Revolution was less than two years ago, and we're cheered by what we've seen since: the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Purple Revolution in Iraq, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan. | | | It's hard to believe that Georgia's Rose Revolution was less than two years ago, and we're cheered by what we've seen since: the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Purple Revolution in Iraq, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the Tulip Revolution in Kyrgyzstan |
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| | Reporter's Notebook: Georgia's Rose Revolution |
| | Newsmaker: Georgia Opposition Leader Mikhail Saakashvili Sought Bloodless Revolution | | | The flowers represent what is being called The Rose Revolution, a day few Georgians will ever forget. | | | Meanwhile, some people came to the scene of the weekend's momentous events to place flowers and candles outside the parliament building. |
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| | Georgia: Torture and ill-treatment two years after the "Rose Revolution" |
| | Ten police officers sentenced since the “Rose Revolution” are believed to be serving prison terms in connection with crimes amounting to torture or ill-treatment. | | | This is an Amnesty International news release published on 23rd November, 2005 | | | Georgia is a party to a number of international human rights treaties setting out measures to be taken by states to prevent torture and other ill-treatment by public officials; to conduct appropriate investigations into allegations; and to provide reparation. |
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| | "Rose Revolution" Blossoms : February 2004 : Peacework |
| | The Tbilisi newspaper, 24 Hours, called the takeover "The Rose Revolution," after the red rose that radical opposition leader Mikael Saakashvili held aloft as he and his supporters stormed into the parliament building on November 22. | | | David Berdzenishvili, leader of the opposition Republican Party and a political analyst told IWPR, "The people began besieging Shevardnadze on November 2." Street demonstrations, a caravan from the countryside to the capital, and a mass takeover of Tbilisi’s central square increased the pressure on Shevardnadze for weeks leading to the confrontations of November 22-24. | | | Shevardnadze was addressing the first session of what had officially been declared to be Georgia’s new parliament. |
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| | Repression Despite the Rose Revolution (In Georgia) |
| | In the words of Malkhaz Songulashvili, head of Georgia's Baptists, "Without legal status we don't exist in law." Government officials have discussed the possibility of such legislation with Songulashvili and others, but concrete progress remains elusive. | | | Anyways be wary of color coated revolutions be they in Georgia or in the Ukraine. | | | When Mikheil Saakashvili won power in Georgia's Rose Revolution a year ago, activists were euphoric. |
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