Other protest events against Russian policy are also being staged in various European cities as well as in Tbilisi today when an EU summit in Brussels is debating the stance on the Russian-Georgian conflict. "The situation in our country is terrible not only for Georgia, but also for all civilised countries in the world," said a Georgian post-graduate student in Prague, Zurab Lalijashvili, one of the participants in the human chain today. He carried a Georgian flag on his shoulders. "Russian aggression Hungary apologises for occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ...
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radar treaty in Prague next week ... is not what we want in the 21st century," he added. Jimi Dabrundashvili, from the Samsoblo Georgian association that organised today's event, said the protest should call on the whole world to support Georgia as much as possible and make Russia fulfil all the six points of the ceasefire on which the Russian and French presidents agreed. Samsoblo also held other protest events against the Russian steps in Georgia outside the Russian embassy in Prague in the past days. In reaction to the Russian-Georgian conflict, the Czech cabinet of Mirek Topolanek has supported the territorial integrity of Georgia. Czech diplomacy promotes this position in Brussels today. Czech President Vaclav Klaus, on the contrary says only Georgia, headed by pro-Western President Michail Saakashvili, is to blame for the conflict. Famous Russian journalist Andrei Babitski, who watched the demonstration in Prague, told CTK and public Czech Radio that in his opinion, the South Ossetian leadership had no means to provoke the Russian reaction, and this is why Moscow was responsible for the situation. Russia thereby wanted to prevent Georgia and Ukraine from entering NATO, however it will probably achieve exactly the opposite, he added. "I think that Russia has miscalculated [the situation] since the right of the strongest is not accepted so unanimously any more," Babitski said.
(Ceske Noviny)
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