Georgia remembers the victims of the Circassian Genocide

ANAKLIA, GEORGIA – Year after becoming the first country to recognize 19th century massacre and deportations of Circassians by the tsarist Russia as “genocide”, Georgia opened on May 21 memorial on its Black Sea coast to commemorate the victims of those events almost 150 years ago.

“Memorial for the Victims of the Circassian Genocide” was opened in Anaklia, close to the Abkhaz administrative border, in presence of Georgian minister in charge of diaspora issues Papuna Davitaia.

May 21, the day when in 1864 the Russian Empire declared victory in the Caucasus war, is marked to commemorate victims of deportation of Circassians and other North Caucasus peoples. On May 21-22 number of events is planned in Anaklia to mark that day, including a conference to discuss results of recognition of the Circassians genocide by Georgia.

“This [monument] is an important step towards the Caucasian solidarity,” Papuna Davitaia, the Georgian state minister for diaspora issues, said, adding that the Georgian state was now capable to carry out its Caucasian policy and engage with the peoples of the North Caucasus.

May 21 is marked in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia as the Day of Remembrance of the Caucasian War. Abkhaz leader, Alexander Ankvab, took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to the Muhajirs – those Muslim Abkhazians who were forced to move to the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century.

Source: Georgia Opens ‘Circassian Genocide Memorial’

Abkhaz and South Ossetian Leaders ignore Circassian genocide

Russian Dictator Putin and Abkhazian ringleader Ankvab in Sochi

OCCUPIED SOCHI – Four days after being sworn in as Russia’s President, Vladimir Putin met in Sochi with pro-Kremlin ringleader of occupied Georgian region of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab on May 11.

Abkhazian pro-Kremlin ringleader Ankvab thanked Putin for Russia’s support, which, he said, helped Abkhazia “to significantly move forward”. He, however, also said that despite of progress, many problems, which had originated from the armed conflict in early 90s, still remained unresolved.

“We have no doubt that things will develop much better,” Ankvab added.

The meeting came a day after Russia said that its Federal Security Service (FSB) found a huge arms cache in Abkhazia, intended for targeting Sochi Winter Olympic Games facilities and claiming that weapons were brought into Abkhazia by Chechen warlord Doku Umarov, who, it claimed, maintained “close links” with the Georgian security services.

On May 12 Putin met also in Sochi with Leonid Tibilov, the ringleader of Georgia’s another occupied region of South Ossetia.

Both ringleaders completely ignored the genocide of the Circassian people, and they did so in Sochi, the place where it acutally happened. Abkhazian and South Ossetian leaders criticize Georgia for recognizing the Circassian genocide, so for acknowledging an actual fact of history.

Georgians can understand the Circassian pain, because the same has happened to the Georgians of Abkhazia: tens of thousands of them were brutally murdered and hundreds of thousands driven out of their homes by the Russian agressor and their Abkhazian puppet soldiers.

Young Georgians now want to hold a support rally for the Circassians on May 21st, in Georgia.

Russia’s failed president Medvedev is again stating nonsense about Georgia

Russian Interim president and Putin’s personal puppet Dmitri Medvedev made yet another cynical statement regarding Georgia in his one of the last interviews as the president. Medvedev did not diverse from the traditional rhetoric of the Kremlin and tried to express his deepest sympathy towards Georgian people.

The puppet also said Russia was obliged to recognize independence of Georgia`s two regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. As for restoration of ties with this country, Medvedev said it would be possible only after the change of the government there.  ”As for Georgia, situation is very regrettable there. An armed conflict occurred on small part of Georgia, which was over in the way as we all know. They took a blow in head and we had to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent subjects of international law. I personally, as well as my friends, partners and our people have no antipathy towards Georgian people. Georgia is a relative country for us and Georgians are very close and dear nation for us. We saved them many times and now let their politicians say whatever they want.

Then, discouraged Medvedev started cursing again: “Saakashvili is an empty space, a zero and sooner or later he will defect from political history and we`ll restore diplomatic relations with any other leaders who emerges there and we`ll have progress when they are ready for this,` Putin’s personal puppet and Russia’ failed President Medvedev said.

In 1992-1993 and in 2008, Russia organized an ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. More than 400,000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia & South Ossetia and are not allowed to return to their homes until today.  (Medvedev: “Georgians are very close and dear nation for us“…)

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has responded to Dmitry Medvedev`s accusations. He said the acting government has turned Georgia into a successful country which Russia is unable to catch up.

“Therefore, successful Georgia is the greatest nightmare for them. The country, they have declared destroyed and finished, has recovered from the ashes and achieved such a progress that is exemplary not only for the Russia`s opposition, but the heads of teh government as well”, he said.

Saakashvili said Russia wants to replace the Georgian government with the force which either directly or indirectly would legalize the occupation of the Georgian territories.

He added that if the Russian government is ready to return to Georgia the control over the occupied territories and withdraw its troops from there, he is ready to immediately fly to Russia and sign the agreement on his and his government`s resigning.

Panic in the Kremlin: Russian tourists are visiting Georgia

Putin’s regime has urgently called upon Russian citizens not to visit Georgia. A ‘ negative travel advice’ is given because Russians would immediately be arrested by president Saakashvili or be kidnapped and killed in this dangerous little country.

On April 12 the Russian Foreign Ministry recommended its citizens “to refrain from traveling” to Georgia because of “absence of security” for the Russian citizens.

Unfortunately, Russians don’t care about these warnings. Thousands of them have entered Georgia in the past months as tourists. Travel has been made easier for them, because Georgia made entry for Russian citizens visa-free (it is not the other way around, Georgians need a visa for Russia). Behind this panicky advice is the fear, that Russians will soon understand that there is nothing to fear of Georgia. And that they will see the political reforms and economic success in the country. President Saakashvili personally welcomed some of the Russian tourists at the Georgian border.

“Hotels are full of Russian tourists. More Lavrov advises Russians not to travel to Georgia, the more Russians are arriving. Maybe we should recruit Lavrov as a tourist agent, shouldn’t we?” Saakashvili told Education Minister Dimitri Shashkin jokingly when visiting a new vocational school in Kobuleti on April 19. “Planes are packed by Russians; they all are aware of Lavrov’s statements, but they are coming into Georgia with even more pleasure. So give Lavrov a travel agent’s salary; he is making a good advertisement for Georgia.”

We would like to remind you that this order to avoid Georgia is not the first in history. Other orders have been:

- don’t drink Georgian wine (it is poisonous)
- don’t drink Georgian mineral water Borjomi (it contains dangerous bacteria)
- don’t buy any products from Georgians and other Caucasians

Left-over bottles were collected and destroyed in public displays.

The Kremlin regime is failing to isolate the Russians from the rest of the world. The Russian people do not want to be slaves to a hostile regime. More and more Russians see the truth every day. The saddest thing is that ordinary people are being blocked from meeting other ordinary people, whom they would get to know and become friends with.

Russian terror in occupied Abkhazia: Three Georgian civilians shot in Abkhazia

GALI, OCCUPIED ABKKHAZIA – Bodies of three Georgian civilians were found in a house in the Gali district of occupied Abkhazia.

The pro-Russian criminal gang calling themselves “Abkhazian police” found 30 cartridge cases of an automatic weapon 7.62 in the yard.

The ringleader of the pro-Kremlin marionette “police department” of Abkhazia, Lourens Kogonia told reporters, according to the ringleader, last night “unknown persons” shot three Georgian civilians as they sat at the dinner table.

Identities of three men killed in the Gali district of occupied Abkhazia have been established. They appeared to be father and son – Sanatreli and Bachuki Gamisonia – natives of the local village of Chuburkhinji and Levan Guchua from the inner regions of Georgia. The occupational pro-Kremlin “Agency” Apsnipress told this in the occupied city of Gali.

The ringleader of pro-Moscow “police department” in occupied city of Gali, Lourens Kogonia said that since 2011 te “Abkhazian law” enforcers had Bachuki Gamisonia on the wanted list for “smuggling” across the line of the Russian occupation line and possession of firearms and explosives, but he had been hiding in the non-occupied territory of Georgia. While Levan Guchua, according to Kogonia, “was also involved in criminal activities.”

The prorussian criminal gang calling themselves “Abkhazian police” believes that Guchua and Gamisonia crossed the Russian occupation line and went into Abkhazia for Gamisonia to meet with his father. One of the versions of the triple murder was named criminal dealings.

In 1992-1993 and in 2008, Russia organized an ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia. More than 300,000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia and are not allowed to return to their homes until today. Instead, the region is becoming more and more militarized.

Ukraine bans distribution of Russian propaganda movie on August war

The Ukrainian Ministry of Culture has banned the distribution of Russian propaganda movie by Dhzanik Faiziyev “August 8″ and recalled its distribution license, the Ukrainian media report.

“The ministry made the decision at the appeal of Liberty public organization and the Georgian community,” the National Accent news portal reports quoting regional publications.

Liberty activists say that the film fans ethnic enmity. “The objective of the film that has already been banned in Moldova and Azerbaijan is to manipulate the public mind with the purpose of whitewashing Russian imperialism, in general, and the invasion in Georgia and the occupation of part of its territory, in particular,” Liberty activist Andriy Mokhyk has said.

“August 7″ is a story of a young woman who is trying to get to South Ossetia at the height of the armed conflict to find her seven-year-old son whom she had sent there on the eve of the conflict.

Liberty activists find the public demonstration of such a film in Ukraine impermissible. “The film provokes hatred for the brotherly Georgian people,” they told korrespondent.net portal.

Previously the premiere of the film in Azerbaijan was foiled as a result of the energetic efforts of Azerbaijani and Georgian media and activist groups.

Russia spends large amounts of money on all this, from making propaganda films to bribing island nations. They try to justify this by saying that Russia was noble enough to save a small people from destruction.

The funny part is that at the same time Russian leaders are publicly stating that they did all this to block the enlargement of NATO.

In Noveber 2011 Medvedev announced: `If the war against Georgia did not happen, despite Russia`s opposition, several countries would be accepted in NATO together,`. He said the geopolitical situation would be different without August war and several countries would be dragged into the alliance forcefully.

How much effort they give in this 21st century to tell a lie, while everyone can see what is really going on. To justify a state that is based on lies and propaganda.

In 1992-1993 and in 2008, Russia organized an ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. More than 400,000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia & South Ossetia and are not allowed to return to their homes until today. Instead, the region is becoming more and more militarized.

The March rally in Russia: Putin is not our president!

City authorities have approved an opposition request to hold a rally on March 10. Putin is not our president – this is the slogan of the demonstration.

The leader of the leftist opposition movement Sergei Udaltsov said at the March 10 rally, the speeches will be delivered by those politicians, who monitored presidential elections on March 4 with the status of observers.

The opposition will install large screens and projectors to show the videos depicting rough violations during the process of vote at various polling stations. Almost all opposition party leaders and their supporters will join today`s rally on Arbat Square in Moscow today.

Co-chairman of the unregistered Part of People’s Freedom /PARNAS/ Boris Nemtsov said the detention of citizens by police after the rally on Pushkin Square in Moscow on Monday evening has not affected the Opposition’s plans to stage a protest action on March 10. “We’ll continue our peaceful struggle for fair parliamentary and presidential elections,” Nemtsov told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

On March 10, Opposition activists plan to march along Novy Arbat Street in Moscow. “The authorities refused coordinating the march so far, but this is usual; we’ll hold talks,” Nemtsov said.

He declined to answer the question about compromise venues of the protest action. “The talks with Town Hall over the venue of the March 10 rally and march are due on Tuesday afternoon,” member of the Organizing Committee “For Fair Elections” Sergei Parkhomenko told Itar-Tass.