The Georgian Defense Ministry yesterday denied information published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper that ministry representatives spoke against the actions of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili in South Ossetia at a recent meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Nonetheless, that information bolstered the spirits of the Georgian opposition, which demanded Saakashvili’s resignation. Kommersant decided to measure the depth of the internal division in Georgian society and the presidential prospects of opposition leaders.
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According to the German newspaper, high-placed representatives of the Georgian armed forces told their colleagues at NATO that they “were against the military invasion of South Ossetia and tried to convince Saakashvili not to start a war,” since they understood their “powerlessness in a confrontation with Russia.” The same publication quotes diplomats in Brussels as saying that the …