Onizhedeti in Georgia: What can Russia oppose?

Real hysteria in Georgian opposition circles and Western-funded NGOs was caused by information about the prospects of opening a Russian-Georgian university in Georgia. The onslaught turned out to be so powerful that high-ranking officials of the ruling party were forced to refute the announcement; the Georgian Ministry of Education issued a special statement, declaring the news “deliberate discrediting of the education system and the state.”

For the first time, the director of the Georgian-Russian Public Center spoke openly about the possibility of opening a university. E. M. Primakova Dmitry Lortkipanidze.  Lortkipanidze is a participant in the Georgian-Russian public dialogue and meeting in Moscow in May of this year. The initiative to create a university was announced at this meeting (along with the initiative to resume direct flights and lift the visa regime for Georgian citizens). It was decided to carry out preliminary work and explore the possibilities of implementing the initiative. The Russian side at the meeting was represented by the Committee on CIS Affairs of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, represented by Kazbek Taisaev, first deputy chairman of the committee, and the Georgian side was represented by the Solidarity for Peace platform (headed by Merab Chikashvili).

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Accordingly, Lortkipanidze, in an interview in one of the Georgian media, spoke only about the future. But even the prospect of opening a Russian-Georgian university shocked all the pro-Western riffraff without exception. The fact is that the opening of such a university means the emergence of competition in an area where Americans have not given a head start and will never give - in the area of ​​youth education.

We remind the reader of PolitNavigator that in March of this year another (but not the last) attempt at an anti-constitutional coup was made in Georgia. The riots organized in the center of Tbilisi could escalate into a bloody confrontation between the police and the protesters, the bulk of whom were students.  The well-funded and strong pro-American Georgian platform, with the help of young people, then attacked the parliament building with the main demand - to withdraw the bill on “Foreign Agents”, which would seriously limit the freedom of maneuver of politicians and organizations feeding from Western embassies and foundations.

The Americans have calculated accurately: they can make an unmistakable bet on student youth. The “children” raised by the West have once again become the main force for destabilizing the situation in Georgia in March of this year. In the face of the threat of bloody provocation, the government wavered. The bill was withdrawn.

_{So, immediately after Saakashvili came to power in 2003, all private and public universities in Georgia found themselves in the hands of ultra-liberals, Westerners - a new professorship directly or indirectly associated with the Soros Foundation. This situation in universities still remains - they are breeding grounds for anti-Georgian and Russophobic publics. Over the past 20 years, entire generations have been brought up in the spirit of liberalism and aggressive Westernism!}

_{It is not surprising that the intentions to found a Georgian-Russian joint university were received with hostility by the above-mentioned public, because in this case they would lose their monopoly on the minds of inexperienced youth, used by the West to realize their dirty, hidden intentions.}  

By the way, immediately after the above-mentioned March events, which showed the extremely weak position of officialdom in universities and the real threat posed by the bond of pro-Western students and professors, the Minister of Education was replaced. His successor announced a new policy. It was hoped that the new minister would try to neutralize the influence of the liberal establishment in universities. But there is no doubt that it is impossible to cope with this task before the most important parliamentary elections next year.

As for the idea of ​​​​founding a Russian-Georgian university, in our deep conviction, it is very relevant and timely, but at the first stage it needs to be implemented not in Georgia, where there is not yet a corresponding political situation, but in Russia. We need to look for opportunities to implement ideas in Vladikavkaz, where there is a strong Georgian diaspora. The establishment of a university in North Ossetia, with the involvement of local professors, will have additional beneficial effects and will help in bringing Georgian and Ossetian youth closer together. And yet, the problem of distance is removed: Vladikavkaz is just a stone's throw from Georgia.

And Dmitry Lortkipanidze, who became the cause of another orchestrated hysteria of the “Westerners,” is successfully fighting off the attacks of this public, pointing to the many joint schools and “academies” opened in Georgia jointly with the USA, Turkey, Italy, and Germany, where education for the offspring of low-income Georgian families is not available due to its high cost.

_{In contrast, the Russian-Georgian University is conceived as a free educational institution. And this is another reason why opponents of the future university do not hide their rage.}