04/09/2010 11:54
Saakashvili: Russia backs Georgian ‘self-appointed conscience'
Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili has described part of country’s opposition as “a self-appointed national conscience” and said that it is backed by Russia, Interfax reported.
During a Friday meeting with parliamentary majority, Saakashvili said that last year’s mass protests in Tbilisi were “anti-governmental, anti-national and anti-Georgian.”
In Saakashvili’s opinion, the conclusion of Austrian policemen showed that the last year’s rallies were sponsored and supported by Georgian-Russian mafia.
“The one who pays – orders the music, and what is the client, this is their aesthetics,” said President Saakashvili, keeping in view cells which were placed by oppositionists on Rustaveli Avenue.