The US and some European countries keep telling the world they support Georgia because it is a western-style democracy. Interesting. In fact, very interesting.
There was an opposition television station in Georgia until last November, when it was shut down by the Georgia Interior Ministry. Government officials entered the station's studios at gunpoint and smashed some of its equipment, Reuters reports.
Human rights organizations have condemned president Saakashvili for denying media access to opposition voices in the country.
Georgian authorities have blocked most access to Russian news broadcasters and websites since the outbreak of the conflict with Moscow. Georgia's Interior Ministry claimed the action was not anti-democratic.