MOSNEWS reports that the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has accused Russia of supplying weapons to separatists in Armenia’s northern neighbor. The accusation comes as Civil.ge reports that Saakashvili and his Defense Minister vowed once again to unite Georgia “soon.”

“I was in Abkhazia several days ago together with several soldiers. I have stayed there for several days. I was sleeping in the forest there. And I vowed, while being there, that none of us will walk on our territory as partisans any more. This time will come soon, time when we return Abkhazia,” Okruashvili said without specifying were exactly in Abkhazia he was, or what was the mission of this trip.

“But there are still people in Georgia, which try to pant seeds of hopelessness; these people, I mainly refer to our opposition, say that serving in the army is wasting of time and say that Georgia should not buy new arms… We are a warrior nation and if not this ability we would have been destroyed… We have no right not to unite Georgia,” Irakli Okruashvili said.

That news is alarming enough in the volatile South Caucasus, but mention of a “Patriot Camp” composing of teenagers from all over Georgia brings back memories of the Komsomol Youth Movement in the Soviet Union. In fact, all three South Caucasus Republics now appear to have caught on to the idea of brainwashing and controlling their youth. Have the days of Kmara passed?

These summer camps were called “Patriot Camps” and aimed, as the organizers said, boosting patriotic spirit among the youth. About 11,000 participants of, as organizers also call it, “the President’s Program” gathered in the Sport Palace in Tbilisi on September 11 at a forum under the name “Patriots are Coming.”

The next day, Saakashvili left for the United States where he will attend the 60th General Assembly of the United Nations. Saakashvili will also meet with the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and sign an agreement to receive $295 million in assistance from the Millennium Challenge Account, $102.2 million of which is earmarked for the rehabilitation of infrastructure and roads in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region partly inhabited by ethnic Armenians.

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