As if the French offering to sell Russia an amphibious assault ship wasn’t bad news for Georgia, Eli Lake at The Washington Times reports that:
The Republic of Georgia is charging a Paris-based satellite provider with caving in to Russian pressure after the company blocked a Georgia-based Russian-language station from broadcasting into the Caucasus region.
“After eliminating most of the Russian-language independent media inside its borders, Russia’s attempt to silence the first Caucasian channel in collaboration with the state-owned French firm represents an alarming precedent of international political censorship,” Georgia’s ambassador to Washington, Batu Kutelia, said in an interview with The Washington Times.
“After eliminating most of the Russian-language independent media inside its borders, Russia’s attempt to silence the first Caucasian channel in collaboration with the state-owned French firm represents an alarming precedent of international political censorship,” Georgia’s ambassador to Washington, Batu Kutelia, said in an interview with The Washington Times.
The French infamously negotiated a cease-fire agreement during the Russo-Georgian war of 2008 which was promptly ignored by Moscow. Then they stepped up talks to sell a Mistral-class amphibious assault ship to the Russian navy, a vessel that would be of tremendous assistance should Putin decide to invade Georgia…again. Now they’re rubbing salt in a gaping wound that is French-Georgian relations by censoring Tblisi’s TV? If there were ever a strike three…
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