BERG...man. See below selective translations from the posts of Caucasian Knot's bloggers. See more in the Russian version

Actions of the opposition have degraded – "impossible to invent on purpose". Or – "I hate both parties, I-H-A-T-E-T-H-E-M-A-L-L!"

"Where has Misha got these clowns?", "Damn it! What shall we do? – President is a looser, opposition is top of ugliness", "Couldn't these stupid guys really think of anything more interesting?", "It is nasty what happens in Tbilisi, we're guilty ourselves", "And do you really want Misha to stay?", "I hate both of them, I just hate!" – Here are just a number of phrases, which you can meet, in this form or other, in any Tbilisi forum or in any conversation with Tbilisi residents. Yes, other formulations and opinions can be also met, but I most often meet these ones.

Yesterday, I wanted all the day to write something to the blog, but everything was so liquid and luscious, that my desire vanished by itself...

So, what do we have as of today? The number of cages in central Tbilisi, as well as garbage, is more and more, but the count of protesters doesn't go up... All the news of Russian and Georgian media about the motor columns moving from the regions to Tbilisi, somehow aren't embodied into figures... Tbilisi, like the Marian Deep, swallows poor provincials by its bowels... But maybe they are just driving here and there; I'm serious: can you explain me, if columns of vehicles arrive to Tbilisi, why the opposition can't bring together even 10,000 to a rally? Oh, yes, I am subjective, I have sympathy, but Nino Burdzhanadze, who speaks about 100,000 at the rally (poor she) – she's objective… You may get into any serious news agency, or TV company, similar figures are there... 10-15,000 – the maximum!

So, the only interesting thing yesterday was with the leader of the opposition, I write "the leader" deliberately, because he has the highest rating – Levan Gachechiladze has once again revealed his toughness... This time in relation to "journalists". I write it in inverted commas, because it is indeed in inverted commas!

"Levan Kubaneishvili, director of the Public Television, wouldn't meet me, he's afraid, because he knows that I promised to give him box on the ear and then to talk... And I'll really do it publicly, wherever I meet him; let them imprison me for 30 days for the box on the ear, because Georgia is for its whole life in prison." He explained his words by the fact that "it's better to deprive them (journalists of Public Television) of journalistic accreditation. Because what they show, it'll be better to show nothing at all to Georgia. I feel a smell of bloodshed from this television more, even more than from 'Rustavi-2', for example."

Well, and so on and so forth. Yes, since I try to be completely frank, don't think that in this context I call to pity the Public Television, and I call them victims. Yes, nobody has the right to threaten journalists, especially the people claiming the president's chair. But on the other hand, damn that journalistic solidarity, invented by someone; there's solidarity with same-thinkers.

That is, the Public Television, as many of my colleagues, serious and influential journalists believe, is a huge barrel with money; they resort to compromise with any idea, if it makes profits, and, certainly, their managers are not fighters for independent opinion and objectivity; the channel is obviously pro-governmental, although, of course, the opposition appears there, and quite often. My last sentence is for you to be clear: what we call in Georgia an encroachment on civil freedom, in many CIS countries is the ceiling of dreams.

P. S. I'll write about any news in this blog during the day!