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Poll: Over 70% of Georgian population favors better relations with Russia

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Dec. 9, 2011, 4 p.m. | Russia and former Soviet Union — by Interfax-Ukraine

The majority of the Georgian population supports the resumption of the dialogue with Russia.

TBILISI - The majority of the Georgian population supports the resumption of the dialogue with Russia, according to a poll taken by the International Republican Institute (IRI). When asked "whether they agree on the resumption of the dialogue with Russia," 73% fully agreed, 17% partially agreed and for only 4% the resumption of the dialogue with Russia was unacceptable.

In the same poll, 54% of respondents named unemployment as Georgia's greatest problem, 18% - territorial integrity, 9% - economic problems, 2% - social problems and 2% - poor relations with Russia.

The study was conducted on Oct. 27 through Nov. 11. A total of 4,000 people were randomly selected.
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Anonymous Dec. 9, 2011, 5:54 p.m.    

"Resumption of dialogue" does not translate into "better relations".

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 7:10 a.m.    

Precisely, and resuming dialogue is all that the Georgian government has been asking for in the past years to no avail. Instead of doing this survey in Georgia, they should have done it in Russia, where clearly no one is ready for a dialogue of any kind with anyone. Only banging fists on the table.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 7:32 a.m.    

Georgia will become friends with Russia and usa will be left in the cold. When EU impodes in a week or so many european countries will side with asia against the demon usa.

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Anonymous Dec. 9, 2011, 7:56 p.m.    

Of course the US banana republic in the Caucasus wants better relationships with Russia - the &quot;achievements&quot; by the US-supported dictator SuckASSvilli are inequality index like most banana republics, unemployment of 19%, GDP per capita $4500 - as bad as subsharan Africa, heh, heh, heh :D

Ukraine economy is doing much better on all three indexes because the Ukraine people grew brains and kicked the US-supported orange traitors out of power and improved their relationships with Russia.

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Anonymous Dec. 9, 2011, 9:33 p.m.    

Oh really? The events in Russia as of late are probably causing Yanuk to lose some sleep. If it can happen there it is will eventually happen in Ukraine too.

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Anonymous Dec. 9, 2011, 10:35 p.m.    

he sleeps well, few thousand criminals is nothing.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 1:01 a.m.    

The Georgian economy is doing surprisingly well considering that the country is not spoiled by petrodollars and that it simultaneously deals with a bitter behemoth like Russia, which organizes terrorists acts across Georgia with the hopes of scaring the investments away.

As for being a banana republic, this criticism should not be coming from Russia of all places, considering that its main export is oil/gas, and that even in this single field Russian efficiency stands somewhere next to Nigeria. As Sergey Brin brilliantly put it, Russia is like Nigeria with snow.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 7:30 a.m.    

Sergey Brin should be more conserned by israel which is going to be turned into glass by islam.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 8:18 a.m.    

Gruzia economy is doing so well, that Gruzia is the MOST IMPOVERISHED of the former USSR, especially after Gruzia lost its most important market - Russia.

Gruzia is typical US banana republic and is going down the craper much what their US masters are doing, heh, heh, heh :D

Regarding Russia &quot;efficiency&quot;, tell your US owners to stop begging Russia to give a lift of their astronauts to the ISS and to stop buying Russia-made rocked engines for ATLAS-5. Doh what a brainless xoxol moron :D

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Anonymous Dec. 12, 2011, 4:17 a.m.    

Georgia did not lose anything, it merely switched from Russia as the biggest market to Turkey.

Also, the US is not using Russian rockets to send astronauts to space because it cannot do it on its own. It uses Russian services because they are cheaper. And even that's risky, considering the recent incident with a Russian spacecraft that got stuck in the orbit. Now that's something that would make anyone laugh.

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Anonymous Dec. 9, 2011, 9:31 p.m.    

When Putin and his ex-KGB cronies are gone a very big step to better relations will have been taken.

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Anonymous Dec. 9, 2011, 10:34 p.m.    

when Georgia CIA puppet is gone then Russia and Georgia will be friends again :)

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 1:03 a.m.    

After ethnic cleansing of Georgians in the separatist regions and the deportation of Russian Georgians in seat-less cargo planes like animals, I'm afraid the Georgian population will have a negative view of Russia regardless of who is in charge.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 1:03 a.m.    

Georgia like Ukraine also needs to remove presidential authority and adopt a Parliamentary system of governance.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 7:06 a.m.    

Yeah, so that they are always in deadlock like the U.S. Congress and end up being taken over by Russia before they figure something out.

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Anonymous Dec. 10, 2011, 8:33 a.m.    

Actually the US is very impressed by how their banana republic dictator deals with the opposition in Gruzia - this experience is very valuable for the ongoing &quot;American Spring&quot; revolution that unfolds in the US, heh, heh, heh :D

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