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school Kamila Khevsurishvili threatened coalition supporters to expel their children<br />

from school. 25<br />

5. According to Betkil Shukvani, he decided to leave the Olympic village and return to<br />

Georgia after a drunken Gia Udesiani requested to meet him. As Shukvani stated at a<br />

press conference on July 1 in Georgian Dream‟s <strong>of</strong>fice, he encountered problems after<br />

publicly endorsing Bidzina Ivanishvili.<br />

“It was already decided that I was going to the Olympics, so they couldn‟t do anything to<br />

replace me. On July 22 I met Bidzina Ivanishvili, posed for photos and said that I was<br />

standing with him and sympathized with his cause,” the judoka said.<br />

Information about their meeting was spread and, Shukvini said, at the airport, Georgian<br />

delegation members verbally abused him.<br />

“It was hard on me mentally. I tried to be mentally strong, I was in perfect shape,”<br />

Shukvani said.<br />

<strong>The</strong> judoka also talked about the Olympic Games, how in twelve years <strong>of</strong> competing he<br />

had never seen such poor referees. Shukvani claims that he asked sport minister Lado<br />

Vardzelashvili to react against the referees, but the minister didn‟t answer him. 26<br />

6. Tbilisi City Court is discussing the case <strong>of</strong> Melik Raisian, a member <strong>of</strong> the Georgian<br />

Dream. He is charged for swindle.<br />

A leader <strong>of</strong> the Georgian Dream Sozar Subari attended the process. He said the case is<br />

about an incident that occurred in Akhalkalaki in 2006. Subari clarified that Malvina<br />

Mataridze, a victimized person according to case materials, alleges that Raisian had<br />

extorted 38 000 lari from her in exchange <strong>of</strong> protecting her company.<br />

25 http://www.humanrights.ge/index.php?a=main&pid=15256&lang=geo<br />

26 http://www.humanrights.ge/index.php?a=main&pid=15271&lang=geo<br />

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