Interview with Nino Kitia, December 2005 (continuation)
Two months after the husband’s dismissal there was a special commission that came to the Ballet Art School, but they couldn’t find anything against Tamaz. Then it was the turn of the Control Chamber. It was curious that they had to check the documents for the period from 1998 to 2004, but in practice they checked the papers only for the last two years, that is the period when Tamaz worked as director! On the 18th of November, when the Control Chamber people were still working at the School, Zviad Bakradze has invited the accountant, took away the keys and dismissed her from her functions without case referral. The accountant informed the Minister of Culture Goka Gabashvili about that fact. Naturally she wanted to decline all responsibility for that. Who knows, how much cheating was there. But it’s absolutely true, that certain papers disappeared!
— But Tamaz Vashakidze was put on the wanted list only few days ago, a year after
the events that you spoke about...
— Only because they couldn’t find anything against him. Nino’s family has become more active after Tamaz organized the world first night in Moscow... Some days later a man from the Procurator’s Office came to see me to maternity hospital. My whole pregnancy period passed in emotional stress. And then the immature delivery started. And there were problems with the baby...
The chief investigator of the procurator’s office Alexander Mgeladze came to interrogate only three days after I gave birth to our baby and was transferred from intensive care department. He asked me where was Tamaz, though they knew pretty well that he was making a production in Moscow. First they blocked all the ways to Tamaz here, and then they reached him abroad (he had invitations from different countries). Now graduates from the times of Tamaz take part in performances of Nino Ananiashvili! They say that he saved Georgian ballet at the time, when he could take care of his personal career.
— As far as I know, Nino Ananiashvili and Tamaz Vashakidze were not only partners, but also friends...
— Yes, they were rather close friends. When Nino was appointed artistic director of the Opera and Ballet Theatre, Tamaz called her and said: my congratulations to Georgian people because of Nino Ananiashvili return! But... My husband could not believe for a long time, that Nino could do all that... Nino could not forgive him, that he had not closed his eyes to injustice that she committed and had filed a case demanding to restore him in his functions. People from the procurator’s office don’t leave me alone; they come and go without warning and even search in my wardrobe trying to find Tamaz there. When Nino gives birth to her child, she’ll probably understand better what it means when children are isolated from their mother, and the policemen storm in the house! By the way, Tamaz did not make any radical declarations for a long time only because Nino was pregnant.... . . >>