Interview with Nino Kitia, December 2005 (completion)
But there is a limit to everything! They don’t leave him alone. Due to Nino, or more accurately — due to her husband Grigol Vashadze he may be imprisoned. He is accused of stealing 64 thousand... I think that the whole budget of the School was less than this!.. And in the real life, Tamaz has sacrificed his own apartment in order to run the First “Chabukiani-Balanchine...” International Festival of Ballet Art".
Today I’m absolutely alone. Tamaz was the only breadwinner in the family. And the threat on the phone! They called twice and said: hey, girl, take care! They forced Tamaz to keep silence. Now they want to force me...
— And why doesn’t he go to the procurator’s office, especially if he is right?
— After the first night in Moscow on October 10 he deliberately came here and went to the procurator’s office trying to prove he was right. Though his friends tried to convince him not to come to Tbilisi. And they told him very clearly there: we’ll start the investigation only after we imprison him. Or when he pays the pledge of 100.000 Lari. Due to pressure, insults and tortures they may force Tamaz to admit something that he has never committed. He also has to thing about his children’s security...
I rely on the Lord! My internal voice prompts me that the Lord will not leave us alone! He sees everything! It is not allowed to put innocent people in such situation.
— You should ask this question in the Government...
— It’s clear, I’ll put it to them. I want to address officially to the chief executives in the Government and to ask them to guarantee our security. But what decision will make the authorities that declared Nino Ananiashvili heroine — I don’t know. When once Nino says: Tamaz is my colleague, leave him alone! And my husband will come back home! But I have doubts, because she keeps silence. Actually it’s not enough to be a good ballerina in order to be a good human being. By the way, when Tamaz started to denounce Nino, no-one wanted to believe that she could have made such a decision, but after scandal with the Pioneer Palace, many made sure that Tamaz was right. I’d like to ask Nino Ananiashvili or her husband Grigol Vashadze to stop the persecution of my family. Take pity at least for the sake of the children, who miss their father and wait when he comes back home!
The interview was conducted by NATO POTSKHISHVILI
Newspaper “Asaval-Dasavali” (www.tamazvashakidze.com/eng/refugee.html)