by Victor Gomez GEORGIA The Power of the Mkhedrioni There are two main centers of power in Georgia. One is governed by the constitution and by parliament Chairman Eduard Shevardnadze; the other is run by an armed band of renegade fighters known as the Mkhedrioni – a Georgian word for “horsemen” or “knights” – and led by a man named […]
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