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Old December 5th, 2017 #1
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Default Supporters Free Ex-Georgian President Detained in Ukraine

Ukrainian authorities have detained the former president of Georgia who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner.

Dec. 5, 2017, at 8:30 a.m.

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA, Associated Press

MOSCOW (AP) — Hundreds of protesters chanting "Kiev, rise up!" blocked Ukrainian police as they tried to arrest former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday. He later escaped with help from supporters and led them on a march toward parliament, where they planned to call for President Petro Poroshenko to resign.

The detention of Saakashvili, now an anti-corruption crusader in his adopted home and arguably the country's most popular opposition politician, has raised fears that Ukraine could be facing its most acute political crisis since the 2014 revolution. Ukrainian prosecutors accuse him of colluding with Ukrainian businessmen who have ties to Russian intelligence as part of an effort to topple the president.

Saakashvili poses a threat to Poroshenko, who appointed him as governor of Ukraine's Odessa region before the two had a falling out. Saakashvili resigned in 2016, complaining that his efforts to root out corruption were being obstructed by officials.



When the SBU, Ukraine's Security Service, went to detain Saakashvili at his home in Kiev on Tuesday, he climbed onto the roof and reportedly threatened to jump off. SBU officers went after him, detained him and led him to a waiting van.

Several hundred supporters surrounded the van, refusing to let it drive off. Footage from the scene showed protesters picking up cobblestones and construction rubble to build barricades. One protester climbed atop the van and waved the Ukrainian flag.

After Saakashvili escaped, he told his supporters that he would "lay down his life for the freedom of Ukraine" and called on them to follow him to the Supreme Rada. He also called on Ukrainians to rally on Maidan, Kiev's main square, the epicenter of protests in 2013 and 2014, to demand Poroshenko's resignation.

Footage showed Saakashvili with the yellow-and-blue Ukrainian flag around his neck marching in central Kiev, surrounded by crowds.

He was Georgia's president for nearly a decade before he was prevented from running again by term limits. He left the country in 2013.

Poroshenko revoked Saakashvili's Ukrainian citizenship in July. Saakashvili forced his way across Ukraine's border with Poland earlier this year, with help from protesters.

Saakashvili's standoff with Poroshenko ignited long-simmering popular discontent with the slow pace of reforms the latter has promised.

The Security Service said in a statement that Saakashvili is facing a criminal investigation for "assisting members of criminal organizations or hiding their criminal activities."

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuri Lutsenko said on TV that prosecutors have evidence that Saakashvili's representative received $500,000 from Ukrainian businessmen with ties to Russia to finance protests.

Saakashvili spearheaded several protests in Kiev, but they typically drew fewer than 4,000 people. At one of the rallies, Saakashvili called on Poroshenko to resign.

"All the rallies were financed by foreign oligarchs that aimed to seize power by illegal means," Lutsenko said. The prosecutors plan to ask the court to place Saakashvili under house arrest, he said.

Analysts in Kiev, however, don't see the Saakashvili case sparking protests big enough to challenge Poroshenko.

"Saakashvili has a small but a noticeable number of hyper-active supporters ready for action," Kiev-based analyst Volodymyr Fesenko told The Associated Press. "They can make a lot of noise but most Ukrainians are wary of negative and unpredictable consequences of a new Maidan."

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/ar...pporters-rally

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His wife is a Dutch leftist piece of shit who work for several charity organisations like the red cross,also she is pro EU.So i think that they want to kick out the jewish puppet Porosjenko and give the EU total controll in a other way {so they can kick more against Russia,because that is what they want in the EU in particular the Dutch government with their lies about the MH17 case}.

Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs–Saakashvili (born 23 December 1968) is a Dutch–Georgian activist and diplomat who was the First Lady of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, when her husband Mikheil Saakashvili was president of the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Roelofs
 
Old December 7th, 2017 #2
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Saakashvili is a puppet of the US and the jews just as much as Poroshenko. The US and NATO supported him against Russia in the South Ossetia war in 2008.
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Old December 8th, 2017 #3
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At that time Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was the secretary general of NATO,the Russian minister of foreign affairs Sergej Lavrov had much criticism on what Jaap de Hoop Scheffer say about how the Russians act.So the Dutch involvement goes further then the leftist piece of shit Roelofs.

Jaap de Hoop Scheffer was also the person who arranged NATO membership for Croatia and Albania,his sick speech about that you can read here.
 
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