MOSCOW, October 6. /TASS/. Since the so-called Rose Revolution led by Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia has developed immunity to the "color technologies virus" proliferated by Western governments and demonstrated this during Saturday’s post-election riots, Alexey Martynov, director of the International Institute of the Newly Established States, told TASS.
According to the expert, the Saturday’s upheavals were nothing but an attempted state coup. He recalled that Georgia was a pioneer in this sense across the entire post-Soviet space, with the first color revolution being staged there in 2003. "Today, these external players are acting within the same paradigm, following the principle 'since it worked once why not do this again?'" he noted.
"It should be noted that over these years after the color coup and the subsequent ousting of Saakashvili, the Georgia’s state and society have developed a strong immunity to such things. A couple of days ago, the authorities did not hesitate as to what to do to defend the state system from this color attack, from this attempted state coup," he said, adding that the outcome is obvious, with the instigators being arrested and charged with serious crimes against the state, and facing long prison terms.
