Synopsis

A year has passed since the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and it is now appropriate to draw a preliminary assessment. Can the young government team, largely educated in the West, led by President Saakashvili, succeed in establishing the former Soviet republic? In the summer of 2004, Saakashvili approached Kakha Bendukidze, a Georgian-Russian oligarch and multi-millionaire, asking him to apply his expertise to his homeland – to revitalize its economy as he had done for heavy industry in Russia. Ben