Georgia the NGO Heaven Which is Hell for Everyone Else

Georgia the NGO Heaven Which is Hell for Everyone Else

23.11.2015 Author: Henry Kamens

Notwithstanding the failed coup plot in Georgia, the real news here these days is a story which will probably slip under the radar: a new NGO is in the making. The one thing this country doesn’t need is another NGO – especially one funded by the same people who fund the others.

We are told that this new organisation will be led by Andro Barnovi. Where have we heard that name before? He is associated with a group of reactionaries who are dead set, according to locals, on destroying the country and ruining the lives of many ordinary people. The first targets ate likely to be those wise and unfortunate persons who know why the provocateurs and bought-and-paid-for media arrived in their villages, close to the dividing line between Georgia proper and South Ossetia, last summer.

The wise and unfortunate villagers have a number of nice names for Barnovi, so nice they can’t be published anywhere but in a pornographic magazine of D.H. Lawrence novel. They say that his new organisation, the Free Zone “NGO”, is nothing more than another coagulation of slimy Saakashvili foot soldiers taking every opportunity to cause trouble. They often get exactly the result they are looking for (which is to give Andro “The Snake” Barnovi a few more vile seconds of fame) by being either Grade 1 “useful idiots” or outright liars.

Andro Barnovi was a member of United National Movement but he still stays as UNM- member (secretly). He is also connected with Bacho Akhalaia, a former Minister of Defense and bag man and weapons dealer for the former United National Movement. He has both friends and foes. He is in conflict with some current member of the Georgian government, David Sergeenko, current Minister of Health, among others.

Among his birds of feather, include such well known “henchmen” and friends such as Nika Rurua and various young writers (Lasha Bughadze, Rati Amaghlobeli, and Basa Janikashvili). Georgians do not trust him as the hue of his skin is not typical for Georgians; they claim “he can’t be real Georgian, as his skin color is kind of different.

Lies, big lies and NGOs

The current situation in Georgia can be summed up by the recent video of one of the typical fist fights in the Georgian parliament, which quickly went viral on YouTube. The video itself is a mock-up, as the fight in question happened quite a while ago. However the point of interest is the appearance of film star John Travolta, who is shown standing looking around with a confused and bewildered expression.

Travolta may not have actually witnessed the fist fight but he would not be the first Westerner to come here on the basis of what he had been told, or could find out from the most accessible sources, who found such a vast difference between propaganda and reality that he began to question the value of any news story about anything. The first reaction of such people is to dismiss this as an aberration and concentrate on other things, which is the real reason why Georgia’s food and wine, excellent though it is, is given such focus in the West. But then they realise Georgia’s strategic location. Then they understand who the players in this deception are, and realise they are intimately connected to all that is going on.

That is why they start to pay attention to incidents such as Andro Barnovi has decided to leave Saakashvili’s former ruling United National Party (UNM) about one month ago and set up an NGO. Until now he has been Chairman of the Board of the Saakashvili Presidential Library, which is mostly a gathering place for coup plotters and student agitators, as few people want to read the president’s books or see the heavily sanitised papers released to the public. He is also Founder and Leader of the Movement for Independence and EU Integration, a means of silencing opposition to the previous government by saying that if you questioned any aspect of the official attempts to join the EU you were against Georgia’s independence and a traitor to the country.

Lots of other interesting things can be inferred about Barnovi from his Facebook page and media reports. One of these things is that his friendships depend on which side he thinks his bread is buttered. His beloved Misha, who sponsored his torture campaigns in Western Georgia before putting him in charge of his books, is now discredited in Georgia and on the run from its police. Now Andro needs to look after his own financial interests and find a better job which he thinks will distance him from his mentor, as if the Presidential Library and his role in all its works never existed.

Barnovi’s newest NGO is as yet unnamed – Free Zone is an existing one, a sort of militia which the UNM uses as muscle at various opportunities.

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