The National Interest: “Saakashvili and the Stanislavski School of Governance”

"Georgia will survive Saakashvili’s latest maneuver. But will Ukraine be as lucky?” writes Tedo Japaridze in an opinion piece for The National Interest.

The short prose, published on June 5, stressed Japaridze’s view on Saakashvili’s new role in Ukraine, and questions whether Georgia’s former president will be allowed to get away with the atrocities he allegedly committed in his home country.

Will he be authorized to conduct raids on opposition headquarters or take over opposition television and radio stations, as was his method of suppressing dissent in Georgia? Will they accept his use of imprisonment, torture, confiscation of private property and even murder to build the sort of authoritarian state he constructed in Georgia?” asks Japaridze.

Japaridze is the current chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of Georgia and a former national security adviser and foreign Minister of Georgia.

Read the full article here: www.nationalinterest.org