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a tool for disintegrating Georgia. We believe¸ the activity of the Russian-speaking
authors is based not only on the fact that the Head of the
ECRML Secretariat is Alexey Kozhemyakov, the former adviser to
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The work of the Russian government in this direction is very systematic;
see, for instance, Rustem Vakhitov’s article entitled "Dividing
People", published in "Literaturnaya Gazeta" (Literary Newspaper) on
November 6-11, 2008, represents one of the recent "scientific" treatise
of scientific-ideological diversion by the Kremlin that has been designed
by A. Dugin’s creativity; The article considers scientific Kartvelology
and objective history of Georgia, in particular, as an ethnonationalist
theory; according to the associate professor R. Vakhitov who is
the Kremlin’s ideologist, the Megrels and the Svans are not Georgians
(they are "national minorities"), and the Georgians never existed as a
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unified nation until the 20 century; it turned out that Zviad Gamsakhurdia
had transformed "ethnonationalism" into the political-state doctrine,
and at present Mikhail Saakashvili is developing an ethnonationalist
state… this biased "historiographic review" considers it to be the
manifestation of "ethnonationalism" that Georgian government declares
the Megrels and the Svans as Georgians and fails to consider their "languages"
as the regional minority languages; it turns out to result in the
fact that Georgia does not join the "European Charter for Regional or
Minority Languages" (it is also noteworthy that R. Vakhitov "mistakenly"
identifies the ECRML as a "convention on national minorities and their languages")
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Mr Alexey Kozhemyakov, Head of the Charter Secretariat (Secretariat of the European
Charter for Regional or Minority Languages)
http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/education/minlang/secretariat/default_en.asp:
Alexey Kozhemyakov graduated from the faculty of International Relations at Moscow
State University (speciality: Law), he earned a doctoral degree in 1990 and worked as
an invited lecturer at the same university in 1992. He worked as an adviser for Mikheil
Gorbachov, special adviser to European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. After
joining the Council of Europe by Russia in 1996, Kozhemyakov was appointed to
hold a high position – a secretary at the Council of Europe. He held a position of a head
of the public and private law departments and a head of the department of decentralization
of regional and minority languages.
250 For criticism on this “ideological diversion” see: T. Putkaradze, “European Charter
for Regional or Minority Languages” and the issue of language policy planning in
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