Georgian opposition leader Nino Burjanadze last week was in Kiev, where she publicly denied the allegations that her ill-fated coup d’etat was a Russian-backed conspiracy. She added that if it had been orchestrated by Russia, she would have been able to overthrow Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili with 4,000 armed men.
Such grandstanding echoes Igor Giorgadze, Georgia’s former security chief who refuted charges that he attempted to kill President Eduard Shevardnadze in 1995 by saying, “If I had, I would have been successful.”
