Issue 4270. Last Updated: 11/08/2009

In Search of Georgia's Culture of Democracy

By Tsotne Bakuria
Speaking to a television journalist late last month in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili -- leader of the Rose Revolution and darling of the administration of President George W. Bush -- defended the crackdown on free media in Georgia, saying the country lacked a ""culture of democracy.""

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