By empty (1/23/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Georgian authorities are using the situation surrounding gas and electricity deliveries from Russia to distract attention from other problems affecting the country, chairman of the Igor Georgadze charity foundation in Georgia Irina Sarishvili- Chanturiya said. \"The events are profitable to for the Georgian authorities who are using the explosions to distract attention away from the real problems facing the country,\" she told Interfax on Monday. \"Armenia, which has also suffered from these explosions, has not echoed the comments of the Georgian authorities,\" she said.
The Georgian authorities are using the situation surrounding gas and electricity deliveries from Russia to distract attention from other problems affecting the country, chairman of the Igor Georgadze charity foundation in Georgia Irina Sarishvili- Chanturiya said. \"The events are profitable to for the Georgian authorities who are using the explosions to distract attention away from the real problems facing the country,\" she told Interfax on Monday. \"Armenia, which has also suffered from these explosions, has not echoed the comments of the Georgian authorities,\" she said. \"Should Russia really be interested in exerting pressure on Georgia, it is difficult to imagine that it could not have found other effective methods of doing so,\" she said. (Interfax)