The release of surveillance tapes by the Georgian interior ministry in recent days - ‘evidence’ which allegedly suggests that opposition activists were buying weapons and making ready to use them to stage a coup during mass protests in early April......more
Matthew Collin in Georgia: March 2009 Archives
War in South Ossetia - The Movie
This is the trailer for Olympus Inferno, a propaganda action movie about last year's war in South Ossetia that's due to be shown on Russian television later this month. According to Reuters: "The fictional account tells of a U.S.-based entomologist......more
Tbilisi Awaits 'Hot Spring'
Georgia's fractious opposition isn't united, and probably never will be, but the various parties and factions seem to have come closer to a collective action plan to oust President Mikheil Saakashvili through street protests - in other words, they basically......more
Matthew Collin in Georgia:
Matthew Collin reports for Al Jazeera from Georgia, and is the author of several books including 'The Time of the...