ReynaudGallas

I think that should make no surprise that Georgia – the country which name appeared in the head-lines of all newspapers for about a month to pass – is virtually going to pieces. The thing is that Georgia in the shape as it is now appeared during the era of the USSR, which was done by means of joining together (not without force though) separate small dukedoms inhabited by various ethnic groups (like the Khevsureti, the Kakhetis, the Imeritis, the Ajarians, the Ossetians, the Abkhasians, the Svans, the Azerbaijanis, the Armenians, the Megrelis, etc.). So it appears that current Georgia is like a patchwork quilt when these patches can no longer hold together.
Of course, the very fact that all these nations got united together not by their own will but via force contributes to separatist moods. Besides, many of the abovementioned nationalities are greatly dissatisfied with the current regime of Saakashvili as he failed to do anything for them despite his election pledges. Now again, after Saakashvili commited a genocide against South Ossetians, all other nationalities of present-day Georgia became seriously worried about their future. Exactly that is why peoples of of Ajaria, Samtse-Javakheti, Mingrelia, Svanetia, Marneul region and Kvemo Kartli would be more and more perseveringly demant separation from Georiga correctly reasoning that that's the only way to save their culture, national identity and the territory they have been inhabiting for a thousand of years.
To sum it up, that's solely Mr Saakashvili's fault that Georgia is breaking up. And yet there are also a few people also to blame – the ones who were supporting Saakashvili, whether by money or by weapons.