May 24, 2011. Georgia’s Pre-sident Mikheil Saakashvili is playing chess with Tbilisi’s mayor Gigi Ugulava at the opening of the capital’s Sand Park. Incidentally, in his speech dedicated to this event the Georgian leader commented on the actions of the ra-dical opposition and stated that the “street masquerade” was no surprise for him. “Historically the chief vizier, who was out of the tsar’s favor or a vassal of some country, would escape to Persia or Petersburg and say: ‘I am the leader and I will tie up Georgia and surrender it to you, of course if I become its tsar or vizier instead.’ Thus, we Georgians are witness to a deja vu, with one difference: whereas in those times they could do so, and Georgia was divided, nowadays nothing will come out of this, because we have the Georgian state. Their calculations are simple: to bite in some way by throwing a bomb, causing troubles, throwing stones. They forget that we have already gone through all of this and this will never stop the state-building process in Georgia. Not Misha the Builder or Gigi the Builder will remain in history on their own, but the entire population who sought unity,” Saakashvili stated.
