The Neo-Soviet Malignancy of Russia's Georgia Plot

Filed under: Georgia ~ Russia

The brilliant and courageous Vladimir Socor of the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor reveals that Russia is pouring "Kadyrovtsi" Chechens (sycophants of Russia's puppet regime in Chechnya) into Georgia's breakaway territory of Abkhazia in at an attempt to foment an outbreak of violence that will justify a Russian intervention. Socor writes:

On October 30 an APC-borne Russian "peacekeeping" unit attempted to take control of the Ganmukhuri youth camp, situated within Georgian-controlled territory near the Georgian-Abkhaz demarcation line. Firing warning shots the Russian soldiers disarmed, bound, and beat bloody the three Georgian policemen who guarded the youth camp. The Russians desisted and left after Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili flew in by helicopter and personally confronted the "peacekeepers." The Russian solders who staged the October 30 raid claimed to have been insulted verbally by a Georgian patrol they had encountered en route, whereupon the Russians raided the youth camp. If so, their disproportionate reaction reflected the Russian "peacekeepers" are unsuitable for the mission, unless they staged the raid on orders from their command. The incident revealed publicly for the first time the presence of Chechen soldiers among Russian "peacekeepers" in Abkhazia. Intelligence had reported this fact recently, but now a few Chechen "peacekeepers" appeared on television when Saakashvili confronted the Russian unit. Moscow's recent decision to employ Chechens as "peacekeepers" in Abkhazia adds a somewhat sinister note to Russian policies in the region. It is a move to play tribal politics on either side of the Caucasus Range, calculating to set Georgians and Chechens against each other again, and possibly preparing to stage-manage a 1992-93-style "response from the peoples of the North Caucasus" to incidents involving Chechens in Russian service in the Georgian-Abkhaz theater.

Socor has produced a litany of brilliant coverage of the Georgia question recently, including pieces on efforts to undermine the government by a Kremlin-friendly oligarch schooled in Russian organized crime who controls a major Georgian TV station and how his efforts lie behind the recent public unrest, seeking to drive Georgia away from the embrace of NATO and back into a state of neo-Soviet submission. No sooner has Georgia succeeded in ejecting Russia's Soviet-era military bases from its soil than it is faced with invasion by "peacekeepers" seeking to split off hunks of its territory to be subsumed by Russia.

If something like this were happening in Russia itself -- if, say, this oligarch's name were Boris Berezovsky rather than Badri Patarkatsishvili -- then the Kremlin would instantly jail him, all the while screaming to high heaven about the evils of foreign subversion of Russia's sovereignty. But Russia has no problem with such activities when they occur in other countries on Russia's behalf -- and the Georgian president's heroic response is simply to call elections and let the people decide. This fortitude makes Vladimir Putin look like the milquetoast he is.

This is the horror of neo-Soviet hypocrisy and imperialism, laid bare.

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Vova says:

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's a duck.
This is a classic commie rooskie subversion, I can't understand why any one would be so blind not to see it. But this is not a case of poor vision but that of soft spine and having no balls. Valeria Novodvoskaya is the only one who dared to say so, and Natasha Gevorkian implied likewise.
The best remedy against dandruff is guillotine, so as long as "Russia" exists as a political entity and subject of international law this outrage will continue. Cancerous growth has to be excised

josh says:

Agree with Vova. And if someone comes on here and says, "How can you support Berezovsky's position but condemn Patarkatsishvili as a nefarious oligarch?" just remember, it's a typical neo-communist trick. These neo-soviets never stop about "double-standards." Boring!

Vova says:

The paleo-soviet imperialists (what makes them neo?) have hever recognized the sovereignty and independence of, inter alia, Georgia and Estonia, do not recognize, and never will. This is encoded in their "national idea" and is part of their socio-genetic code. They will continue tryin g to dismember Georgia, and the spineless ball-less West will continue to look the other way. And this is too bad

Josh says:

By the way, speaking of evil incarnate, did you read about the Saudi regime giving 200 lashes to a woman BECAUSE she was gangraped? When will we have the courage to fight against the misogyofascist regime in Saudi Arabia?
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_BHkxuL0U2_S3G6pBGUhDNDh8-g
Ms. Zigfeld, we need your talent and moral courage!

Vova says:

Fighting misogyofascist islamofascist regime in Saudi Arabia? We (collectively speaking) don't have the balls.
As for Kim, with all due respect I prefer her doing what she does best--blogging and exposing--and not getting lashed by the crazed islamofascists

Josh says:

We may not have the balls, but I'm sure Ms. Zigfeld does. How can we ignore the fact that we buy oil from a country that whips and jails its women as punishment for the fact that they got gang-raped? This is the Taliban times 100.

Pro Badri says:

Imedi TV was the most popular channel in Georgia.

The President of Georgia went too far, even Putin prefers pushing his friends to buy out media instead of using violence.

The actual Georgian government sent thugs to raid the station and destroy everything. They didn't present any papers.

What kind of democracy is that? Even Russians don't storm offices without a court warrant.

I support Badri.

Winston says:

To Pro Badri (and others)....

We make a mistake to think of this as a two way conflict of Russia vs Georgia. It is more complicated than that.

Badri Patarkatsishvili is a close ally of Berezovski. They have worked together for years. I think they are doing so now. Berezovski wants to overthrow Saakashvili and to have his friend Badri in his place because then Georgian/Russian relations will be still more inflamed (and Berezovski's financial interests in Georgia will be protected). Berezovski wants to push Russia to extreme action, to show Putin as he really is. He does not want Russian relations with neighbouring countries to be peaceful and it serves his purposes if they are not. Why? Because he WANTS to keep Russia's anti-democratic slide in the public eye. He is a 21st century version of the cynical revolutionary agitator, exploiting the troubles of others for his own ends.

His purposes will not be served if the dispute between Georgia and Russia gradually calms down.

People like Berezovski are to be condemned - not so much for their alleged criminality but because they put their own financial interests above the cause of democracy in Russia and opened the way for the ex-KGB crooks to take over. They had the power to bring in democratic measures which would have protected the country from the return of the KGB. They blew that chance for their own self-interest. They never cared about democracy in Russia - they just wanted to be free plunder its treasures. Once they had smashed the front door in so they could burgle the house, it was unprotected and any passing wolves could follow. They did. Hence Putin.

Badri and Berezovski are behaving as cynically now.

Don't be fooled. Just because they are anti-Putin it doesn't mean they/he is pro Western democracy and pro a free civil society.

My enemy's enemy is not my friend just because he is my enemy's enemy.

www.resistancegeorgia.blogspot.com says:

With all due respect, I have to disagree with Winston.

In the same logic, just because Badri is against Saakashvili, it does not make Saakashvili good. And justifying a bloody crackdown on November 7th, including closing of an independent TV, just by threatening with Russia's influence is wrong.

Yes, Russia is there, ambushed to use every moment of Georgia's internal chaos, but this does not allow Georgian government to silence its critics with the inhuman and cruel methods. Don’t ask me to sit still and bear all the bruises from my partner's domestic violence, just because an evil neighbor will be happy to hear the creaming.

If you are interested, there are facts that show, how Saakashvili became so antagonized by Georgian citizens, briefly here

http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=15274

Also, about Badri
isn't it interesting, how suddenly it is him that became to be blamed for all Georgian plaques. When before recently, he was one of the main financiers of extortion demands of the National Movement. Until, one day he was fed up with their capricious requests.

from
http://www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2370939

" The third crisis to erupt this week started on March 29. Speaking at the annual meeting of the influential Federation of Georgian Businessmen, Georgian media and financial tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, who claims to be the second-largest investor in Georgia after British Petroleum, openly charged Saakashvili's government with extorting businesses and putting pressure on the media. As evidence, Patarkatsishvili pointed to the controversial fund kept at the Prosecutor-General's Office to develop law-enforcement agencies. He claims the fund, which now amounts to GEL 160 million (about $89 million) is financed by compulsory payments from businessmen, who reportedly bought freedom with their contributions. "Some of them did it with cars, some with cash, some with shares," Patarkatsishvili said.

According to Patarkatsishvili, the authorities were dissatisfied with the freewheeling broadcasts by his television company, Imedi, including objective coverage of the high-profile murder of banker Sandro Girgvliani, in which top law-enforcement figures have been implicated (see EDM, March 9). These reports, according to the tycoon, triggered a governmental audit of his companies in order to force him to make Imedi TV journalists toe the government line. Patarkatsishvili said that in today's Georgia, keeping silent over the "authorities' methods" is "equal to a crime."

Winston says:

resistancegeorgia.blogspot, I am happy to agree with you.

You say "just because Badri is against Saakashvili, it does not make Saakashvili good. And justifying a bloody crackdown on November 7th, including closing of an independent TV, just by threatening with Russia's influence is wrong."

I agree entirely.

I pointedly did not defend Saakashvili because I do not know enough about him or the claims that are made against him to dispute them.

I think it is highly likely there is no smoke without fire and am quite prepared to believe you.

Once again I would simply say "My enemy's enemy is not my friend just because he is my enemy's enemy". If your claims about Saakashvili are true that doesn't make others who agree with you whiter than white.

As far as people like Badri, Berezovski, Saakashvili and even Khodorkovsky is concerned I would say once thing. A man may be a crook. He may also be a crook and sometimes do good things from pure motives. Or a man may be a crook who does good things for his own advantage. Or he may be a good man who sometimes does crooked things. Or he may be a man who once was a crook and is one no longer. Or, finally, he may be a good man who is slandered.

Our difficulty is that very few people know the truth about such men. We have to guess. And we do not know if we are right or wrong.

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