Are we going for this oil too?

Eastern Europe | 14.01.2008

Georgian Opposition Protests Against

Allegedly Rigged Elections

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A mountainous country about the

size of Ireland, the former Soviet

state sits at the center of a volatile

region hosting a pipeline pumping

oil from the Caspian Sea to Europe

and is the scene of a power struggle

between the United States and Russia.

Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Over 35,000 opposition supporters

chanted for their man, Levan Gachechiladze

Georgia remains bitterly divided one week

after President Mikhail Saakashvili won

re-election. Ten of thousands of protestors

braved plummeting temperatures to

demonstrate against what they see as

a corrupt vote.

Georgia's election commission on Jan. 6

officially declared Saakashvili the winner

of the controversial presidential elections

in the Caucasus republic.

Comments: 3

George McNaughton Jan 14, 2008, 5:10pm EST

Kind of has the earmarks doesn't it. Political leader gets friendly with the US, the money starts rolling in, but only goes to the economic elite, and the rest of the country wonders why they are getting by-passed by the economic boom and then the US friendly political leader starts rigging the elections. Then violence breaks out and we declare the opposition to be terrorists... That's about how the scenario goes.