Eka Kevanishvili is a correspondent in Tbilisi for RFE/RL's Georgian Service.
For Betkil Shukvani, leaving the London Olympics without a medal was disappointment enough, especially when Georgian officials failed to defend his complaint about an unfair ruling in his final judo match. Then he threatened by officials who resented his open allegiance to opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili.
For two weeks, a government-appointed temporary administrator was placed in charge of Cartu Bank, a key part of the business empire of opposition political figure Bidzina Ivanishvili. Now bank managers are back in their offices and they are not pleased with what happened while they were gone.
Teachers in Gali, the one district in breakaway Abkhazia where at least 40,000 ethnic Georgians are living, say they are coming under pressure from local officials to drop all Georgian language instruction and give up their standard textbooks.
