It just looks like a left wing hit piece to me. Did I miss something?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1151881/posts
Tbilisi tells Moscow to stay out of its affairs
Russian Journal ^ | June 03, 2004
Posted on 06/11/2004 1:53:38 PM EDT by RussianConservative
TBILISI - Georgia told Russia on Wednesday to stay out of its affairs in a sharpening dispute over its breakaway South Ossetia region, where Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is trying to re-assert central control. The foreign ministry of the ex-Soviet republic defended its action in sending troops on Monday to the internal border with the region to protect anti-smuggling checkpoints that Georgia said Russian peacekeepers were trying to remove.
That action drew a sharp rebuke from Moscow which complained of "provocative acts" by the Tbilisi government and a danger of "violence and bloodshed". In a statement, Georgia's foreign ministry said: "This affair concerns Georgia's territory and Georgia is a sovereign state and has the right to take action to uphold the law on its own territory, just like Russia and other states."
The turbulent, multi-ethnic region of which Georgia is a part is a transit route for oil from the Caspian basin, making it strategically important for both Moscow and Washington. Saakashvili recently brought Georgia's renegade Adzhara region back into the fold by forcing out the local leader, and has made clear he has now set his sights on regaining control over South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia.
But both have rejected the advances of the U.S.-educated leader who won a landslide election this year after a bloodless revolution. A four-way commission set up after South Ossetia's 1991-2 separatist war met in the region on Wednesday in an attempt to defuse the war of words.