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Georgia: The red menace returns to Georgia

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Siberian Light reports that the scourge of illegal tomato plants [1] has suddenly manifested itself in the shadow of the Georgian Parliament building. Registan adds the overlooked tidbit [2] that there may be political overtones to the contraband fruit; after all, the original news story [3] notes that “in recent months tomatoes have become the missile of choice for protestors in a number of former Soviet states.”