From the Rose Revolution to the Carrot Manifestation

Monday, 13th of April, the ex-prime-minister of Georgia Zurab Nogaideli, announced that he and his followers refused to continue the manifestation. Nogaideli says he cannot agree with the methods that the opposition started to use from April 10 on. In spite of the split, the opposition announced their plan to enlarge the regional participation in the rally.
At the same time in his interview published 12th of April in the Newsweek magazine, Saakashvili announced he is not going to resign, but will stay at his post until his presidential term will expire, meaning four years more. He also said the opposition consists of corrupt officials, who lost their jobs after the Rose Revolution and who are disappointed in the life now. Besides, he added, that main sponsors f the manifestations in Tbilisi are Russian oligarchs. He was just wondering if the Russian government is implicated in this sponsorship. During the same interview he expressed his disappointment about his eastern partners, who suspend their relations with Georgia, waiting for the results of the mass protests.  
Experts give three main reasons why the manifestation in Tbilisi fade and less people come to take part in it. The main reason is that the population of Georgia is still not completely recovered after the August events, when Russian tanks were only 35 kilometers away from Tbilisi. People are scared of new destabilization especially when Saakshvili himself announces that the concentration of Russian military forces in Georgia and around it is now even higher than in August.
The other factor is the extremely cold weather, which is pretty unusual for this season. And the last one is the unpopularity of some of the leaders of the opposition. But the fact that less and less people take part in the mass protests make their actions more aggressive. For instance, on the 14th of April the residence of the Georgian president was surrounded and blocked -wich means the protesters broke the law. Georgian political experts maintain though that the main purpose of the opposition is not to organize a revolution but to keep a trouble spot in the capital.
Disorders in the streets of Tbilisi sometimes have a sardonic character. On April 13, protestors replied to the request of the mayor to collect their own garbage by bringing it all to the entrance of the city hall. Two days before one of the leaders of the opposition said in his speech, that Saakashvili is nothing but a rabbit, a rabbit who is scared of his own people. After that he suggested that people bring cabbage and carrots to feed their rabbit. Inspired by the allegory, people started throwing the vegetables in the courtyard of Saakashvili’s residence.