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MP Insulted so-called Russian “Sect” for not being “Ethnic Georgians”

July 25, 2008


Approximately 200 employees of village Ulianovka, Sighnaghi district I. Lomouri Experimental Station of Agriculture Institute rercently held a demonstration. They protested against the decision of Ministry of Economical Development of Georgia dated June 30, 2008 that placed 4 Hectares of agricultural land on the privatization list. The scientists of I. Lomouri Agricultural Institute used to conduct genetic experiments, which included’ variety selection and breeding and cross-breeding new plant varieties.

The inhabitants of village Ulianovka fear that they might lose their jobs and sources of income when the land is sold off. Nugzar Tarkhnishvili, Signaghi single mandate MP and Shota Tarkhnishvili, Interim Governor of Kakheti Region met with the protesters. However, more then 10 reprentatives of CSD Kakheti Division observed the demonstration.

They did not allow the peasants to hold demonstration and promised if they held the demonstration they would be detained. However, the peasants from Sighnaghi yesterday held the demonstration in front of President’s Chancellery in Tbilisi. The CSD representatives were treating the journalists who came to cover the demonstration with aggression. One of the CSD men used foul language against the journalist and tried to take his camera as the journalist took a picture of the car that the CSD representatives was sitting.

The participants informed the Human Rights Centre that Nugzar Abulashvili, the Georgian MP insulted the Malakn, a small ethnic group of Russians who live in village Ulianovka because they were not ethnic Georgians. “He rushed to me and said to ask for land for the Russians, and then he said: “You Malaknis are a sect and you have no right to talk so much,” and retold by Ludmila Kapelova, one of protesters. Other eyewitnesses confirmed to the Human Rights Centre that Nugzar Abulashvili had indeed insulted the ethnic Russians during the course of the demonstration.

Gela Mtivlishvili, Kakheti  

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