Twelfth Bough (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Bearing in mind yesterday's post about Dmitry Karlik, the Russian immigrant who murdered a family of six that lived across from the Chabad Lubavitch shul in Rishon Letzion, Israel, a case which has "rocked the entire nation" of Israel although good luck finding any news about it, and which is now under the personal jurisdiction of Benjamin Netanyahu and Internal Security Minister Yitzhak...
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Referring to the Afghan "election" for which our boys died and are dying, Jeremy Vine remarked that "Putin was not convincingly elected", either. Tell me, Jeremy, I know you're Hatfield and I know you used to edit Palatinate , but even so, you might know this: was it Putin (not now the President, as you do not appear to know), or was it Saakashvili, who managed a Soviet-style ninety-seven...
The Public Record (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
In September, in an interview with Fox News, President Mikheil Saakashvili explained that Georgia was “absolutely” willing to host prisoners from Guantánamo. “You know, whatever we can do to help America in its war on terror, we will do,” he said.
Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Georgia is the latest film from Renny Harlin, a film that sounds far from the usual titles associated with the man who brought us Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Deep Blue Sea, and the other version of Exorcist: The Beginning, however he's lining up an interesting cast to a thriller set against the very real world of the Russian and Georgian conflict in 2008. The film will see Andy...
FP Passport (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Eurasianet's Molly Corso reports that Tblisi and Washington are in talks over Georgia accepting detainees from Guantanamo Bay: Georgian National Security Council Secretary Eka Tkeshelashvili stated that negotiations about a prisoner transfer are "ongoing." She would not specify the nature of the talks, or discuss any potential timetable for a transfer. President Mikheil Saakashvili has made...
Global Dashboard (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Here in Tbilisi, where I’ve come to attend a friend’s wedding, the city is filled with nervousness and excitement. A few days ago, the police sealed off Freedom Square and Rustavali Avenue, in the heart of the city, then an official government calvacade arrived, and president Saakashvili hurried to a podium and told the gathered [...] Related posts: What’s Georgian for Agranat? Russo-Georgian...
CORRESPONDENT (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
It's not every day that Hollywood descends on Tbilisi. Sure, Renny Harlin is not the star action director he was in the early 90s when he was making films like "Die Hard 2" and "Cliffhanger." And Andy Garcia is no longer at the top of Hollywood's A-list. But by the way Georgia reacted to their arrival, you'd think Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt had come to town. It's not every...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) is in Tbilisi shooting a script about last year's brief and nasty battle over South Ossetia. Andy Garcia is playing president Mikheil Saakashvili, whose government is enthusiastically supporting (and possibly funding) the project....
The Independent (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Andy Garcia is playing a very different type of leading man this week. The Hollywood star, best known for his very American roles in The Untouchables and Ocean's 11, has taken on the part of Georgia's flamboyant leader Mikheil Saakashvili in a big-budget film about last year's Russian-Georgian war.
Swampland (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Add another complication to the tangle of relations--with a happy face--that is the U.S.-Russian relationship. It does not concern nuclear weapons, Iran, missile defense, Saakashvili's Georgia or even Vladamir Putin's creepy penchant for baring his pecs. Rather the dispute centers around a notorious criminal, whom Russia authorities seem intent of protecting from prosecution. Viktor Bout, a [...]
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Andy Garcia has jetted to Georgia to film his latest role as President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Sify (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Hollywood filmmakers have recreated a rally in Georgia's capital while filming a movie about the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, with Andy Garcia playing President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Hollywood filmmakers have recreated a rally in Georgia's capital while filming a movie about the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, with Andy Garcia playing President Mikhail Saakashvili.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Andy Garcia plays Saakashvili in 'anti-war' film directed by Renny Harlin of Cliffhanger fame His fans portray him as a plucky leader defending his small country from Russian aggression. The Kremlin depicts him as an unstable madman, fond of chewing his own tie. But now Hollywood is to give its own take on Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's controversial pro-US president, in a new movie set during last...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Andy Garcia arrives in Georgia to play President Mikheil Saakashvili as the conflict with Russia gets the Hollywood treatment.
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mexture | 06/10/2008
The Ukrainian president went to power thanks to the orange revolution in Ukraine, since then the Ukrainian government is experiencing a period of instability. Viktor Yushchenko has supplied the Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili with tanks and army artillery that have been used to invade South Ossetia on the 08 August 2008, also there are voices that Georgian tanks pilots have been trained in Kiev
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