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Interview Protest Politics

“The point is: can he [Saakashvili] rule any longer?”

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Published 09 April, 2009, 17:11

Ten times as many people, including a wide array of political forces, are protesting today against Saakashvili as there were against the USSR in tragic 1989, remind political experts Kirill Bessonov and Peter Lavelle.

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