Just as Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was addressing a dinner held at President Mikheil Saakashvili's modern glass "palace" in Georgia's capital city of Tbilisi last month, praising the country's commitment to democracy, 18-year-old Melor Vachnadze was outside on the street being beaten by police and arrested for daring to offer a one-man protest against the authoritarian regime.
(This week, Russia has accused Georgia of reigniting violence in the breakaway province of South Ossetia by firing mortars and grenades into the South Ossetian capital city, Tskhinvali, over the past several days.)
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