Soros foundations are autonomous institutions established in particular countries or regions. The priorities and specific activities of each Soros foundation are determined by a local board of directors and staff in consultation with George Soros and OSI boards and advisers. In addition to support from the Open Society Institute, many of the foundations receive funding from other sources.
The apparent goal of the Soros Foundation is to promote the activities of western institutions such as the National Endowment For Democracy that was set in 1983 by the then US President Ronald Reagan to promote free market pro western style democracies and viewpoints.
It is worth noting that 26 US Congressmen, merchants and leading political figures are among the Board of Directors of the Soros Foundation.
In view of the strategic geo-political significance of Caucasus and Central Asia, the Soros Foundation has become active in most of these states in the interests of international free markets. Over the recent years the Soros Foundation has made inroads in all Central Asian states to pave the way for creating influential organisations in these regions.
Certain countries like Turkmenistan have restricted its activities. The Soros Foundation is however very active in Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrghyzstan, that recently saw a change of government.
Central Asian states have become rather sensitive to the presence of the Soros Foundation , with political experts in Central Asia and Russia raising the probability of the spread of the undermining of governments on the patter of the developments in Georgia that were hailed by the western media as the Velvet Revolution.
Some believe these so-called revolutions are have been co ordinated by the US as part of its strategy to take control of the former Soviet States.
Its activities came further into limelight after the November 2003 developments in Georgia, which the media calls the Velvet Revolution.
On November 2, 2003 Georgia witnessed parliamentary elections, but the opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze led by Michael Saakashvili alleged election fraud and after holding an organized demonstrations on November 22 they seized the parliament and forced the government to resign.
Shevardnadze after resignation disclosed the role of the Soros Foundation in the November 2003 incidents of Georgia. He said the billionaire, George Soros, injected several million dollars to fuel the November 2003 incidents.
He said he was not sure which countries supported the riots against him, but he could say with certainty that international groups such as the Soros Foundation were the main financial backers of his opponents.
Shevardnadze said: "The goal of Soros Foundation was to create conditions similar to those in Yugoslavia, a country where protestors overthrew Slobodan Milosevic."
He said: "We wonder how international institutes interfere in the internal affairs of sovereign independent countries."
Shevardnadze also castigated the US ambassador to Georgia, Richard Miles, for intensifying the riots.
A year prior to the eruption of crisis in Georgia, the US embassy in cooperation with the Soros Foundation had allegedly selected a group of supposed students and sent them to Siberia for training by CIA and Pentagon agents for stirring up riots. Two months before November 2003, this batch returned to Georgia and began training one thousand more people.
After the so-called Velvet Revolution in Georgia, Soros announced:
"I am confident with the developments in Georgia and I have funded millions of dollars for creating similar changes in Central Asian states and the other states of the Caucasus.My Charity Foundation supports reforms in all of these countries.”
Revolutions by common rules
Similarity of conditions and scenarios of the latest color revolutions (and lebanons cedar revolution) is striking indeed. Pre-election indoctrination of young voters (they went on to become the locomotive force of the revolutions afterwards) was carried out and financed everywhere by organizations like Freedom House, International Republican Institute, Soros' Open Society Institute. Moreover, it turned out that executives of these organizations moved from one country to another as "instructors of the revolution".
Soros Foundation
National divisions of the Soros Foundation operate in over 30 countries including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine.
George Soros himself admitted assistance to "democratic processes" in these countries.
Georgia
Soros Foundation Open Society - Georgia was established in 1994. Grants to various projects have been available since 1996. They have amounted to almost $20 million since. The Foundation's annual budget for grants amounts to approximately $3 million .
Kyrgyzstan
Soros-Kyrgyzstan Foundation was established in 1993. To quote from its website, "the Foundation backs civic initiatives in the spheres of support of the media, health care, culture, education, science, law, and economy."
Ukraine
Revival International Foundation (Soros Foundation - Ukraine) was established in 1990. Official figures indicate that its expenses in 2004 (by December 15) amounted to $5,406,465.
Internews International
This is an international organization that backs media projects (headquarters in Paris, France). It makes an emphasis on support (personnel teaching included) and development of nongovernment electronic media outlets. Internews International has divisions in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus (closed by the authorities in 2003), Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Ukraine. There is no information on their financial activities in open sources.
Georgia
Internews - Georgia was established in 1995. The organization actively helps regional radio broadcasters and TV stations. To quote insiders, "Internews Georgia was established to help appearance of the independent media as the means of freedom of speech." Soros' Open Society - Georgia is one of its major partners.
Kyrgyzstan
Established in 1995, Internews - Kyrgyzstan supports nongovernment media outlets, arranges seminars for correspondents, provides law support, and organizes a TV program exchange. It has the central office in Bishkek and a bureau in Osh. Soros - Kyrgyzstan is a major partner.
Ukraine
Internews - Ukraine was established in 1993 to facilitate development of independent electronic media outlets. Its partners are the US Agency of International Development and Revival International Foundation.
Soros helped bankroll the 1989 coup d'etat that catapulted dissident playwright Vaclav Havel to the presidency of the Czech Republic. The relatively bloodless uprising acquired the nickname "Velvet Revolution."
To this day, people use the term "velvet revolution" to denote Soros-sponsored coups.
Defenders of Soros paint his velvet putsches as benevolent, arguing that Soros has freed millions from tin-pot despots such as Slobodan Milosevic. Maybe so.
How exactly does one perpetrate a velvet revolution anyway? The seven-step strategy Soros used against Milosevic provides an instructive blueprint.
Step 1: Form a Shadow Government
Step 2: Control the Air Waves
Step 3: Economic destabilisation of the state through economic sanctions and civil disobedience.
Step 4: Sow Unrest
Step 5: Provoke an Election Crisis
Step 6: Take the Streets in rallies or tent cities.
Step 7: Outlast Your Opponent
The Rose Revolution and the Rise of Saakashvilli
Funding from Soros-related organizations A significant source of funding for the Rose Revolution was the network of foundations and NGOs associated with George Soros. The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies reports the case of a former Georgian parliamentarian who alleges that in the three months prior to the Rose Revolution, "Soros spent $42 million ramping-up for the overthrow of Shevardnadze." Speaking in Tblisi in June of 2005, Soros said, "I'm very pleased and proud of the work of the foundation in preparing Georgian society for what became a Rose Revolution, but the role of the foundation and my personal has been greatly exaggerated."
Among the personalities who worked for Soros' organizations who later assumed positions in the Georgian government are:
Alexander Lomaia, Secretary of the Georgian Security Council and former Minister of Education and Science, is a former Executive Director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation (Soros Foundation,) overseeing a staff of 50 and a budget of $2,500,000.
David Darchiashvili, presently the chairman of the Committee for Eurointegration in the Georgian parliament, is also a former Executive Director of the Open Society Georgia Foundation.
Former Georgian Foreign Minister Salomé Zourabichvili wrote:
These institutions were the cradle of democratization, notably the Soros Foundation … all the NGO’s which gravitate around the Soros Foundation undeniably carried the revolution. However, one cannot end one’s analysis with the revolution and one clearly sees that, afterwards, the Soros Foundation and the NGOs were integrated into power.
– Salomé Zourabichvili, Herodote (magazine of the French Institute for Geopolitics, April, 2008
The Orange Revolution in Ukraine
Activists in each of these movements were funded and trained in tactics of political organization and nonviolent resistance by a coalition of Western pollsters and professional consultants funded by a range of Western government and non-government agencies.
According to The Guardian, these include the U.S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the Bilderberg Group, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute.
The National Endowment for Democracy, a foundation supported by the U.S. government, has supported non-governmental democracy-building efforts in Ukraine since 1988.
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