It is currently about two decades now, since a significant part of the Georgian public has been actively condemning the activities of the Open Society Foundation. This fund disguises its destructive goals by supposedly useful projects, but the results of its activity in Georgia were manifested in the “pink” coup of 2003, the fight against the Orthodox faith and the GOC, and the introduction of stamped dogmas into the youth instead of the ability to think freely. The Open Society Foundation poses a threat to the country and this has been said more than once.
It should be noted that, based on its priorities, the Soros Foundation causes great irritation among its critics, so this criticism is often emotional. However, emotions alone do not mean that the thought (in this case, criticism) is wrong. Newsfront will attempt to expose the destructive actions of the Soros Foundation (Open Society – Georgia) step by step and collect critical assessments made by representatives of the Georgian public. At the same time, we will defend the principle of the need to observe objectivity and an analytical approach. If the opponents wish, we will provide the platform and the opposite side.
So, today we will begin by collecting a list of “Sorosites”, that is, persons whom the foundation introduced into the Georgian political spectrum and actually turned Georgia into an experimental Soros training ground.
What is it all about when a fund created by a representative of a foreign state prepares personnel for appointment to key positions. This in itself is a fact that carries a great threat to Georgia. The presence of such appointees is incompatible with a sovereign state, which Georgia claims. Nevertheless, the Soros Foundation was able to staff its most important state posts with its former employees and thereby undermine the sovereign development of Georgia.
During the reign of Saakashvili’s regime, I remember that there was such an indefatigable Kakha-Alexander Lomaya, first the Minister of Education, and then the Secretary of the Security Council, a very influential politician to the court Saakashvili, who previously worked as the director of the Soros Foundation, “Open Society – Georgia” and was particularly intolerant to people with different political views than himself. Once, he expelled one ordinary employee from work because the wife of this employee, a journalist by profession, began working on local TV as a moderator of an information broadcast during the reign of Aslan Abashidze in Adjara.
Linaia’s guilt in inciting the 2008 war and its infamous end is significant. We all remember how, smiling at the top of his mouth, he accompanied General Borisov to Gori and carried out all his whims.
Before that, Lomaya did everything to destroy the education system, drove out a huge number of qualified professors and teachers from universities and introduced his little “suckers” there. The name Lomaya is associated with an attempt (and by no means an unsuccessful attempt) to introduce “gender” and “sexual” topics into schools, minimizing the number of hours of Istrian Georgia and the native language of literature, expelling the Russian language, closing and selling off research institutes, and many more phenomena.
But not only Lomaya was different. The entire “elite” around Saakashvili was brought up from Soros roots. After the November rallies in 2007, Pridon Dochia published in the newspaper The Times a list of former Open Society Foundation employees who held high political positions at that time:
Lado Gurgenidze – Prime Minister;
Zurab Nogaideli – former Prime Minister;
Kakha-Alexander Lomaya – Secretary of the Security Council;
Goka Gabashvili – Minister of Culture and Sports;
Lexo Aleksishvili – former Minister of Finance;
Gia Kavtaradze – former Minister of Justice;
Giorgi Papuashvili – Chairman of the Constitutional Court;
Gigi Ugulava – Mayor of Tbilisi;
Zurab Chiaberashvili – representative of Georgia in the Council of Europe;
Giga Bokeria – parliamentarian, one of the leaders of the parliamentary majority;
Givi Targamadze – Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security;
Maya Nadiradze – leader of the parliamentary majority;
Khatuna Gogorishvili – chairman of the parliamentary committee on procedural issues;
Levan Ramishvili – Head of the influential NGO Institute of Freedom;
Thea Tutberidze – one of the leaders of the “Liberty Institute”;
David Darchiashvili – Head of the Open Society Foundation (later he also became an influential parliamentarian – a note from the Newsfront);
Gia Hubua – Rector of Tbilisi State University;
Gigi Tevzadze – Rector of the State University named after Ilya Chavchavadze;
Gia Bugadze – Rector of the Academy of Arts;
Lasha Bugadze is a writer close to the government (the son of Gia Bugadze is a note from the Newsfront).
At the same time, representatives of the then government and today’s opposition were deprived of the attention of the Soros Foundation:
Tina Khidasheli – representative of the Republican Party, one of the leaders of the united opposition, which only a few months ago resigned as head of the board of the Georgian branch of the Soros Foundation;
David Usupashvili – Chairman of the Republican Party (spouse of Tina Khidasheli – note. Newsfront);
David Zurabishvili – parliamentarian, member of the Republican Party;
Levan Berdzenishvili – parliamentarian, member of the “Republican Party”;
David Berdzenishvili – parliamentarian, member of the Republican Party;
Irakli Okruashvili – former Minister of Defense, supporter of the opposition;
Rati Amaglobeli – poet, supporter of the opposition.
– wrote Pridon Dochia in 2007.
As you know, most of the people represented on this list are politically active to this day. But there are also officials – former employees of the Soros Foundation, who continue to determine public policy using specific government posts.
“Tumbling their biographies, it turns out that several years of work experience in the Open Society Foundation is almost a prerequisite for getting into the government or parliament. With rare exceptions, all these Bidzin’s cadres at different times worked in that organization, which is popularly known as the Soros Foundation. Maybe the global force that decided to teach Saakashvili a lesson in 2012 completely took control of the processes?!” – publicist Bakur Svanidze wrote on April 27, 2018 in the newspaper Georgia and the World, referring to the following parliamentarians:
Irakli Kobakhidze – at that time the chairman of the Parliament;
Archil Talakvadze – by that time – the leader of the parliamentary majority, today – the chairman of the Parliament;
Mamuka Mdinaradze – leader of the Georgian Dream faction;
Tamar Chugoshvili – at that time the chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations
and others, starting with Zardiashvili and ending with Sofia Katsarava.
The Sorosites from the Georgian Dream, as well as their predecessors, the Sorosites from the National Movement, are particularly intolerant of dissenters. The same Bakur Svanidze rightly notes:
“Over the past period, the tendency has become especially noticeable when those persons /Soros’ cadres/ who were elected to the parliament by the lists of Gr. Mechty who were elected as the chairman of the committee or his deputy, consider themselves not to be colleagues of the other parliamentarians, but their bosses.
The saddest thing is the fact that such a vicious example to colleagues sets the chairman of parliament. We have already noted Kobakhidze’s statements that “the processes in the Parliament of Georgia are usually controlled on the basis of hierarchy and this is normal”, directly discourages his tendency to dictatorship and the speaker clearly wants not to cooperate with parliamentarians, but to manage them.
These days, the leader of the parliamentary majority, Archil Talakvadze, did the same with the chairman of the Parliament, who did not like some comments of the deputy David Chichinadze with the media and, no less, no more, summoned the deputy to his office.
“Yes, I didn’t ask to come to the office for a conversation, but I ordered – “David Chichinadze will have to answer difficult questions in my office!”
It turns out that if the deputy does not give satisfactory answers to the “difficult questions”, he may not leave this cabinet alive.