Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

When the cat’s away the mice will play?

While President Petro Poroshenko is on a visit to the US, former Odesa oblast governor Mikheil Saakashvili stages a picket near the Presidential Administration
20 September, 2017 - 18:40
Photo by Artem SLIPACHUK, The Day

Mikheil Saakashvili arrived in Kyiv not on October 17, as he promised just the other day, but a month earlier. And he appeared, of all places, near the Presidential Administration. The ex-president of Georgia organized, together with his fellow fighters, a picket to demand that he be given the documents by which he had been stripped of Ukrainian citizenship. Saakashvili said that, once he got the documents, he would go to court to appeal against the president’s decision to revoke his citizenship. The only thing is that the PA’s occupant is away from Ukraine these days – he is in the United States to address the UN General Assembly and hold a series of bilateral meetings, including one with US President Donald Trump. Is it perhaps for this reason that Saakashvili dared come to Kyiv and stage a picket? In general, this action, especially the participants, among which were MPs Serhii Leshchenko, Yehor Soboliev, and Yurii Derevianko, is a question only to political experts, but also to psychologists: what is the history of each of them, who is leading, who serves whom, and what is the goal of this gathering?

By Ivan KAPSAMUN, The Day
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