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Georgia To Provide Separatist Regions' Residents With Free Education

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June 19, 2012

Georgia's Ministry of Education has announced that it's ready to provide free university education to all residents of Georgia's two separatist regions who have obtained "status-neutral" documents.

Georgia launched the status-neutral internal and travel documents for the residents of Abkhazia and South Ossetia earlier this year, in accordance with the state strategy on what it calls its "occupied territories."

Separatist officials of the two breakaway regions condemned Georgia's new " status-neutral " documents after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in Tbilisi recently that U.S. authorities would recognize the new documents.

Russia recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after fighting a brief war with Georgia in 2008.

Most of the rest of the world continues to view the regions as part of Georgia.

Based on reporting by Interfax and Gruziya online

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by: Jack from: US

June 19, 2012 14:58

And this welfare policy by a NATO minion will be paid by US taxpayers, who unwittingly fund Wahhabi extremists and other enemies of Christendom.

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by: Andrew from: Auckland

June 19, 2012 20:27

Geeze wayne Jack, get over yourself.

The Georgians, Abkhaz (in Abkhazia anyway) and South Ossetians are Christians.

Russia sponsors far more Islamist terrorism (Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Hamas but to name a few) as well as mass murdering governments such as the Syrians. BTW, Russia is supplying the Taliban, AQ, and was supplying the Muj in Iraq......

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by: Jack from: US

June 19, 2012 22:06

that was not me, it was a friendly RFE/RL staff member. And you Andrew must be a republic of Georgian, correct? Do you still have Stalin's portraits all over your bedroom? The rump republic of Saakashvilli is the only place on Earth where they still erect statues to Stalin on city squares.

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by: Andrew from: Auckland

June 20, 2012 18:47

Jack, you are wrong, as usual.

Russia is the only country where they erect statues and monuments to Stalin. At least a dozen monuments to Stalin have been erected by the Russians in the last 10 years under Putin, along with his glorification by the Russian state on victory day, in Russian school history books etc.

Meanwhile in Georgia his last statue was removed from his home town in Gori.

In Russia Stalin is "the great Russian leader" and a hero, while in Georgia he is a villain and an embarrassment.

Also note Stalin was part Georgian, part Ossetian, and part Russian.

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by: Michael from: NY

June 27, 2012 19:06

This is a lie. Georgia is itself a terrorist state that only 4 years ago had the nerve to invade a nation state that broke free of its oppressive grasp years before. Not to mention their illegal invasion of Abkhazia (illegal in regards to the LEGAL situation surrounding the fall of the USSR and the rise of these new satellite states after 1991, before you check your handler for more information, look that up first) in the early 1990s. Let's not forget the Chechens in Georgia who have links to terrorist groups. When will this hypocrisy stop? No one buys your story, Georgians!

by: Mamuka

June 20, 2012 02:00

There are still Georgians in Gali district who might want to do this. But what about all the refugees from South Ossetia who now live in resettlement camps around Georgia? Do they get the same offer.

by: Eugenio from: Vienna

June 20, 2012 04:45

How about offering free education to citizens of Georgia itself? Or maybe even doing something to provide the Georgian refugees who have been expelled from Abkhazia and Osetia over the last 20 years some sort of descent housing within Georgia. Ah, yes, I know: the Georgian govt has no money for that at the time of the economic crisis, when its own sponsors from the EU/US are going around the globe begging for money, like yesterday in Los Cabos in México :-).

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by: David from: Los Angeles

June 27, 2012 19:10

Thank you! I also found this extremely hypocritical. In regards to money, seems Georgia has it but it's conveniently tucked away in the personal offshore bank accounts of Misha and certain other clowns in this pitiful excuse of a nation's government. That money would do much better to be given for their own people and not a people that want nothing to do with the brutal and ignorant Georgian nation. Waiting for my secret friend Konstantin to jump in at any time with his lovely poetry!

by: American Troll

June 22, 2012 08:09

Easy promise, considering they stopped having kids to teach. They could teach the working-age adults instead, but they're all in Moscow driving taxis and dodging bullets from soccer hooligans. That leaves "How to Check Your Email" classes for the WW2 vets.