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Compiled by Temuri Kiguradze
Monday, February 2
IDPs return to Gori from Tbilisi
Sakartvelos Respublika reports that IDPs from the Liakhvi Gorge, who had been housed in the capital’s schools and kindergartens after the August events, are returning to Gori. The returnees, have no new homes to return to, and will therefore have to live in Gori kindergartens before these are built in the so-called Verkhevi Settlement. New home construction will begin in February.
Davit Bakradze: “Any person can get sick and everyone should have enough honour not to spread dirty rumors this time”
Versia writes that Chair of Parliament Davit Bakradze has categorically denied there is a possibility of early elections and stated that the Government will take a final decision only after the opposition gets its promised 200,000 signatures on a petition for this and addresses Parliament. However he also underlined that close consultations are already underway with the opposition on amendments to the election code and as soon as the sides agree this information will become public.
“Members of the [Parliamentary] majority have kidneys too and therefore sometimes have problems with them. The organism can give a [bad] reaction to certain medicine, possibly followed by allergic shock, low blood pressure and even heart failure for a certain period of time. Any person can get sick and everyone should have enough honour not to spread dirty rumours this time,” Bakradze stated.
The majority denies Burjanadze can create a Parliamentary faction
Versia writes that the Parliamentary majority denies that Nino Burjanadze can create a faction of her own in Parliament. Several MPs have already been named as possible members of a new Burjanadze faction, but those Deputies have dismissed this as speculation.
Vano Khukhuneishvili, who has been named as one of the supporters of Burjanadze, states that work on forming the faction may be ongoing, however he has no information about it.
Irakli Alasania left the Government “clean” - Pichkhadze
Political commentator Shalva Pichkhadze states that the [Georgian] population doesn’t have much objection to Irakli Alasania because he was “clean” when he left the Government, 24 Saati reports.
“A large part of the electorate has a negative attitude towards Burjanadze or Noghaideli but the level of negativity towards Alasania is not really big. Today the Georgian opposition has several new faces, however it’s hard to talk about their chances. A political force needs two things to be successful - media and money. I don’t know whether they have the money or not but it’s obvious that the Government controls the media,” stated Pichkhazde.
According to the commentator the opposition will have to gain the support of the international community as well as Georgians to be successful.
Vandals destroy Machabeli house-museum
According to reports by international organizations the house-museum of Ivane Machabeli, a famous Georgian writer and public figure, has been destroyed, Sakartvelos Respublika writes. This has been proved by satellite pictures of Tskhinvali region. The remaining museum exhibits can’t be evacuated because Georgian specialists can’t enter the region.
The Georgian Ministry of Culture has twice restored Machabeli museum. The museum was damaged by separatists before the August war and destroyed during it. Nothing is known about the fate of other cultural sites and artefacts in the occupied zones.
Sakartvelos Respublika reports that IDPs from the Liakhvi Gorge, who had been housed in the capital’s schools and kindergartens after the August events, are returning to Gori. The returnees, have no new homes to return to, and will therefore have to live in Gori kindergartens before these are built in the so-called Verkhevi Settlement. New home construction will begin in February.
Davit Bakradze: “Any person can get sick and everyone should have enough honour not to spread dirty rumors this time”
Versia writes that Chair of Parliament Davit Bakradze has categorically denied there is a possibility of early elections and stated that the Government will take a final decision only after the opposition gets its promised 200,000 signatures on a petition for this and addresses Parliament. However he also underlined that close consultations are already underway with the opposition on amendments to the election code and as soon as the sides agree this information will become public.
“Members of the [Parliamentary] majority have kidneys too and therefore sometimes have problems with them. The organism can give a [bad] reaction to certain medicine, possibly followed by allergic shock, low blood pressure and even heart failure for a certain period of time. Any person can get sick and everyone should have enough honour not to spread dirty rumours this time,” Bakradze stated.
The majority denies Burjanadze can create a Parliamentary faction
Versia writes that the Parliamentary majority denies that Nino Burjanadze can create a faction of her own in Parliament. Several MPs have already been named as possible members of a new Burjanadze faction, but those Deputies have dismissed this as speculation.
Vano Khukhuneishvili, who has been named as one of the supporters of Burjanadze, states that work on forming the faction may be ongoing, however he has no information about it.
Irakli Alasania left the Government “clean” - Pichkhadze
Political commentator Shalva Pichkhadze states that the [Georgian] population doesn’t have much objection to Irakli Alasania because he was “clean” when he left the Government, 24 Saati reports.
“A large part of the electorate has a negative attitude towards Burjanadze or Noghaideli but the level of negativity towards Alasania is not really big. Today the Georgian opposition has several new faces, however it’s hard to talk about their chances. A political force needs two things to be successful - media and money. I don’t know whether they have the money or not but it’s obvious that the Government controls the media,” stated Pichkhazde.
According to the commentator the opposition will have to gain the support of the international community as well as Georgians to be successful.
Vandals destroy Machabeli house-museum
According to reports by international organizations the house-museum of Ivane Machabeli, a famous Georgian writer and public figure, has been destroyed, Sakartvelos Respublika writes. This has been proved by satellite pictures of Tskhinvali region. The remaining museum exhibits can’t be evacuated because Georgian specialists can’t enter the region.
The Georgian Ministry of Culture has twice restored Machabeli museum. The museum was damaged by separatists before the August war and destroyed during it. Nothing is known about the fate of other cultural sites and artefacts in the occupied zones.