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nsnbc : Former Georgian President and ex-governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, Mikhail Saakashvili, has returned to Odessa. Some 200 people attended a demonstration in support of Saakashvili on September 30, in central Odessa city, in front of the Potemkin staircase. Meanwhile, members of the so-called AutoMaidan turned on loud music in n attempt to disrupt the gathering.

Scuffles erupted between Saakashvili supporters and the AutoMaidan, and the police created a cordon around the AutoMaidan protesters. Saakashvili dismissed his opponents as titushki, or pro-government thugs.

Always  with a keen eye for the theatric, drama, or some would say comedy or the tragic comic, Saakashvili did not disappoint this time either. He was standing behind a monument to Duc de Richelieu, the French aristocrat and prime minister who became governor of Odessa in the early 19th century using him  for comparison with himself – Mikhail Saakashvili -another foreigner appointed to run the city. In fact, appointed by President Petro Poroshenko who turned against Saakashvili as much as Saakashvili turned against Poroshenko and the oligarchical circles around him.

“Once you have come to Odessa, it will be (in your life) forever. I can’t boast that I’m a third or fourth generation Odessa resident like many of you, but neither was he,” Saakashvili said at the demonstration, pointing to Richeliu’s statue.

Saakashvili’s visit comes as Odessa faces increasing instability. The city never fully recovered after the violent standoff between Kiev protesters and regional – predominantly Russian speaking – protesters and members of trade unions and others who had become “undesirables” after the 2014 coup in Kiev. The city has also neither recovered from the – according to victims representatives – still not fully investigated and still largely unpunished 2014 Odessa massacre.

There are economic factors for Odessa’s lagging recovery by the division of the people, some backed by Russia, others backed by a pro-EU, pro-US regime in Kiev, and others disappointed by both and rallying around Saakashvili who isn’t without skeletons in his closet and most certainly not unproblematic, even an economic infusion would hardly be sufficient to pull Odessa out of the mire.

Recently, clashes between protesters and the police were triggered by a September 15 fire at a children’s camp that killed three kids and a court decision on September 18 to acquit 20 pro-Russian protesters and release five of them from custody on charges stemming from the May 2014 fire. Odessa (Odesa) Mayor Hennady Trukhanov has been blamed by critics for the fire at the children’s camp.

“They stole all the money and built it out of the worst materials,” Saakashvili said at the rally, referring to the children’s camp. “Trukhanov went to Kyiv with a suitcase of cash that he had stolen from Odesa residents and gave it to (President Petro Poroshenko’s Deputy Chief of Staff Vitaly) Kovalchuk. And they agreed that they would play down this scandal.” Trukhanov and the Presidential Administration have denied accusations of corruption.

The groups that clashed with Saakashvili supporters – Odesa’s AutoMaidan, Self-Defense, and Civic Security Council patriotic groups – have been accused of being financed by Odessa Mayor Hennady Trukhanov. They deny the allegation. Last year, they assaulted and dispersed a tent camp of anti-Trukhanov protesters.

After being appointed governor, Saakashvili announced an ambitious plan to root out corruption in the city. He built a center to speed up the provision of administrative services, started the creation of a graft-free customs terminal and began construction of a strategic highway to the Romanian border. Poroshenko’s supporters accused Saakashvili of failing to complete his projects. Saakashvili resigned in November 2016, accusing Poroshenko and the central government of blocking his plans.

“I don’t need a single government job in Ukraine,” he said. “I dream only of one thing – replace the government in Kyiv because they prevented me from changing Odessa and then come back to Odessa and change it together with you.” Saakashvili urged Odesa residents to attend an October 17 rally that he and his allies are planning in Kiev. The rally will be devoted to the establishment of anti-corruption courts, canceling lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution and adopting a new electoral law that would decrease oligarchs’ influence on elections.

Now one thing is certain – and that is that Saakashvili – with Odessa as power base – taps right into the historically greatest potential for protest in the country and that even though the rebelling Donbas republics and the city of Donestsk and Lughansk are not under Saakashvili’s sway.

Saakashvili said that Trukhanov is just “a small scoundrel who was a security guard of (Alexander) Angert and (Vladimir) Galanternik and cut off fingers in the 1990s.” Trukhanov and Odessa businessmen Angert and Galanternik have been accused of spearheading corruption in Odesa and were members of a mafia gang in the 1990s, according to an Italian police dossier.

Documents published by Slidstvo.info show that Trukhanov owns a hidden network of offshore firms that control companies which have received city contracts. According to documents published by ex-Odesa Mayor Eduard Gurvits, ex-lawmaker Yegor Firsov, and Slidtsvo.info, Trukhanov also has Russian citizenship, which is banned by Ukrainian law for officials. Trukhanov, Angert and Galanternik deny accusations of wrongdoing.

“But Trukhanov is a small tentacle of a big squid in Kyiv,” Saakashvili said. “Until we cut off the main head, it doesn’t make sense to cut off small tentacles.” Saakashvili said Trukhanov would be among the first ones to be jailed once an anti-corruption court is created. “Recently an elephant was brought through the streets of Odessa and put in a cage,” he added. “Why should the elephant be there? Trukhanov and the whole city council should be in a cage.”

After the rally, Saakashvili walked around Odesa’s central streets surrounded by supporters. Later he came to Russov House, a historic 19th century landmark where a fire had just broken out. The house has experienced several fires in recent years in what critics suspect to be an effort to free up the area for a lucrative construction project.

Saakashvili had his citizenship suspended by Poroshenko in July in what he has called a measure that violates the Constitution, Ukrainian and international law and due process. He broke through the border on Sept. 10 and then launched a tour around Ukraine, rallying supporters. Ukrainian authorities have so far refused to give Saakashvili documents specifying the grounds for his loss of citizenship. “We will break through all the fences,” Saakashvili said at the rally. “We are not afraid of their barbed wire, titushki (pro-government thugs) and special forces… I want to be a free citizen of a post-kleptocratic Odesa where we will build a city of our dream.”

F/AK – nsnbc 02.10.2017