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US to Activate European Missile Shield Shooting Dinosaurs: Ogden on the Georgian Film Industry by NICHOLAS WALLER SOCIETY PAGE 11 facebook.com/ georgiatoday www.georgiatoday.ge Issue no: 843 • MAY 13 - 16, 2016 • PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY PRICE: GEL 2.50 In this week’s issue... Georgia Drops 10 Spots to 111 for Environmental Performance NEWS PAGE 2 Council of Europe Launches Action Plan for Georgia (2016-2019) POLITICS PAGE 7 Georgian President Backs Georgian-born Marriage Bill, Zguladze Out as Ukrainian Refuses to FOCUS Government Purges Take Stance ON UKRAINE Reformists on Same-Sex TODAY PAGE 3 Unions SOCIETY PAGE 8 US to Activate European Missile Shield Shooting Dinosaurs: Ogden on the Georgian Film Industry BY NICHOLAS WALLER SOCIETY PAGE 11 he United States will activate Foreign Premieres of “They its European missile defense shield beginning Thursday will Return” by Director Zaza despite vehement protests from Russia who see the sys- Nanobashvili Ttem as a direct threat to Moscow’s security in Europe. CULTURE PAGE 12 The project has been a decade in the making as Washington looked to develop Young Pianist a ballistic missile defense shield for its NATO allies in Europe. The system was Sandro Nebieridze originally intended for possible Iranian- made medium-range rockets, but Moscow Wins Grand Prix in saw the development of the system as a direct threat to the credibility of its nuclear Moscow deterrence. Continued on page 2 CULTURE PAGE 15 GEORGIA TODAY 2 NEWS MAY 13 - 16, 2016 Casualties Mount in North Georgia Drops 10 Spots Caucasus as Violence to 111 for Environmental Spreads in April-May Performance of an organized crime group known as the Kizily- BY NICHOLAS WALLER urt Gang. Six local policemen were later wounded in an insurgent attack at a security checkpoint in Chechnya he North Caucasus experienced a on May 9. Chechnya’s Interior Ministry said the dramatic spike in violence across the incident near the capital Grozny left three police region in April as shootouts and sui- offi cers severely wounded, though none was expected cide bombers claimed dozens of lives to succumb to their injuries. in the restive region. Islamic insurgents fi ghting in the isolated moun- TThe majority of the attacks took place in the tains of Chechnya claimed responsibility for the Scotland-sized republic of Dagestan on the Chechen attacks. The incident took place on the 12th anni- and Azerbaijani borders. versary of the assassination of then-Chechen Pres- At least nine people were killed and two others ident Akhmad Kadyrov, who was killed in a bomb- wounded in mid-April during intense weeklong ing at Grozny’s central stadium during a Victory clashes between armed Islamic insurgents and Day parade. Russian security service troops in Dagestan, accord- Chechnya and Dagestan have been the epicenter ing to reports by independent North Caucasus of a low-level guerilla war between insurgents news outlet Kavkaz Uzel. seeking to establish an Islamic state in the North Clashes occured in a village in Dagestan’s moun- Caucasus. tainous Sograti Gunib district when a 25-year-old The confl ict stems from the period following the man identifi ed as Akhmed Shamkhalov opened fi re brutal Chechen wars in the 1990s. on local police offi cials during a routine document After Moscow re-established control over the check. republic, many former secular independence fi ght- Shamkhalov was killed in the ensuing shootout ers turned to ever more brutal methods of combat- The EPI revealed the Nordic nations of Finland, BY NICHOLAS WALLER and was later linked by Russia’s FSB security ser- ing their erstwhile enemy, while embracing an Iceland and Sweden as the world’s most eco-friendly vices to a local militant group that had repeatedly imported form of radical Islamist ideology that had countries. threatened attacks on Russian interior ministry been brought by Arab volunteers in the early 2000s. Georgia’s South Caucasus neighbors Azerbaijan offi cials in recent months. he Yale Center for Environmental Law and Armenia were placed 31st and 37th on the list, A second deadly clash on April 14 in Dagestan’s and Policy’s recently published Envi- respectively. Dzhengutay Buinaksk district – an area closer to ronmental Performance Index (EPI) Azerbaijan’s relatively high rating is somewhat the regional capital Makhachkala – broke out when placed Georgia 111th on its list of 180 controversial with regards the heavily industrial- traffi c police operating in the area were fi red upon countries. ized areas along the Caspian Sea, namely the age- by a driver and passenger who were later identi- TThe ranking sees Georgia drop 10 places com- ing Soviet-era oil facilities near Sumgayit, where fi ed by local pro-Moscow offi cials as members of pared to its previous ranking in 2014 high rates of cancer and ground water poisoning a local insurgent group. The EPI index – fi rst published in 2006 – quanti- are common. Local offi cials in Dagestan on April 29 reported fi es and marks the environmental performance of Sumgayit is often listed as one of the top 10 most that a retired police chief from the region’s Shamil a country by analysing its policies towards nine polluted sites on Earth alongside Russia’s Dzhezhinsk District had been shot and killed by militants. major environmental issues. chemical weapons plant and Norilsk’s mining and Russia’s National Antiterrorism Committee said According to the report, Georgia still lacks a smelting facilities, as well as Ukraine’s abandoned on May 4 that three gunmen had been killed in an coherent policy on a number of key environmental Chernobyl nuclear power plant. operation in Dagestan’s central Kizilyurt District. issues, including freshwater quality, toxic chemical Somalia, an East African country that has endured The committee identifi ed one the militants killed exposure, municipal solid waste management, wet- constant warfare since 1991, ranked last on the EPI in the operation as Omar Sabuyev, the alleged leader land loss and recycling. index, coming in at 180. US to Activate European Missile Shield Continued from page 1 sition to the system is based on the Kremlin’s inability to reach a level of parity with NATO’s “This system now gives us the capability to pro- conventional ground forces, which continue to tect our NATO allies in Europe,” US Deputy Sec- maintain a vastly superior edge in quality, supply retary of Defense Robert Work was quoted by and training over their Russian counterparts. Reuters as saying on May 11. He added that the Russia’s Defense Ministry in keenly aware that system, installed at an air base located in Romania, despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars is not directed toward Russia. on a massive military modernization overhaul after The Kremlin, however, has reacted with repeated a brief war with Georgia in 2008, Moscow’s nuclear threats to counter a US-led defense system with deterrent remains the country’s only reliable trump the deployment of Iskander medium-range tactical card. nuclear warheads in Russia’s exclave Kaliningrad The Romanian missile-defense site will form the region and in Crimea, which Moscow invaded and heart of a larger network of US warships that are illegally annexed from Ukraine in March 2014. armed with radar and missile interceptor systems. The issue of missile defense has been one of the The ships will jointly patrol the Black, Mediterra- most toxic bones of contention in US-Russia bilat- nean and Baltic seas on a rotational basis with other eral relations since the collapse of the Soviet Union. naval ships belonging to fellow NATO members. Washington has sought to assuage Russian fears A second missile defense installation located in over the years that the shield is not directed at or Poland is expected to go online by early 2018 capable of intercepting Moscow’s missile systems. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will Military analysts both in Russia and abroad believe arrive in Romania to attend the system’s launch on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s strident oppo- Thursday. GEORGIA TODAY MAY 13 - 16, 2016 NEWS 3 Georgian-born Zguladze Out as Ukrainian Government Purges Reformists Affairs,” said Avakov. came to prominence immediately after BY NICHOLAS WALLER Zguladze fi rst joined the Ukrainian the 2013-14 Maidan Revolution overthrew government as one of dozens of foreign disgraced former pro-Russian President – mostly Georgian – pro-Western, reform- Viktor Yanukovych, and powerful oli- n a move widely seen as a major ist politicians who were given key posi- garchs who have long-standing ties to blow to Ukraine’s reform move- tions in the post-Maidan Revolution corrupt old guard politicians and warm ment, the country’s Georgian-born Petro Poroshenko government. The relations with the Kremlin. First Deputy Interior Minister group was tasked with fundamentally Ukraine’s deeply entrenched oligarch Ekaterina Zguladze tendered her overhauling Ukraine’s political culture class – led by Donetsk-based, pro-Russian Iresignation to the country’s cabinet of and steering the nation of 50 million out billionaire Rinat Akhmetov – has in ministers late Wednesday evening. of Russia’s orbit and towards Euro-Atlan- recent months forcefully pushed back Zguladze, a fi ery 37-year-old reformer tic integration. against any attempt to overhaul the coun- known by her diminutive “Eka”, previ- Ukraine’s corrupt, and often criminal, try’s corrupt post-Soviet political and ously served in the administration of Soviet-style police force was seen as a economic structure. former Georgian President Mikheil major obstacle towards implementing Saakashvili. She has been instrumental fundamental reforms. As she had previ- REFORMISTS OUT AMID in overhauling Ukraine’s notoriously ously done in Georgia during her six-year GOVERNMENT DISARRAY corrupt police force since being appointed term as First Deputy Minister of Internal As the post-Maidan governing coalition to her position in December 2014.
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