Alan Kasayev exclusively to Vestnik Kavkaza
Configuration of the top of one of two highest mountains of the Caucasus Mountains, Kazbek, is well-known to me: for many years I watched it from windows of my own apartment. My point of view was located from the side of the RSFSR (for those who don’t know - Russian Soviet Federated Socialistic Republic). Later the abbreviation was cut to two capital letters, according to the current geopolitics. So, the top of Kazbek which was in left from my balcony is a bit higher than another top which was in right. It is 14-meter higher than its neighbor – 5.047 meters.
It is the top which still current president of happy and more and more independent from him Georgia climbs on everyday. However, the tops seem different from Mikhail Saakashvili’s windows – the highest one is from the left. And the mountain is named differently – Mkinvartsveri. What can we do? Geopolitics…
“I am bored to live in Georgia in last 10 months,” Mikhail explains his uplift. “Premier Bidzina deprives me of maneuver and power; maybe on Kazbek, I mean on Mkinvartsveri, I will find happiness again…” Something like that. Maybe he will. Moreover, this mountain whatever you name it changes lives of people who climbed on it.
For example, in 1910 a small-town Vladikavkaz reporter, Sergey Kostrikov, climbed on one of two Kazbek peaks and in a couple of years he changed name and became Sergey Kirov. 9 years later he turned from an ambassador of Russian in five letters in independent and happy Georgia into its conqueror, or willing connecter, as you wish. Later this Kirov-Kostrikov was the governor of Leningrad.
Does the almost former president of Georgia want to associate someone? I don’t think so. First of all, he has already done –a country fellow of Sergey Kirov, not a reporter, but an economist from St. Petersburg, Andrey Illarionov, is in harness with him. Secondly, nobody will appoint Saakashvili the ambassador in Russia.
