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The parties to last year's war between Georgia and Russia are marking its anniversary with harsh words and quiet, glum ceremony. The war killed at least 390 people, displaced tens of thousands and left a legacy of animosity between leaders and fears among...
Tags: Russian, South Ossetia Cost Russia, Georgian, South Ossetian, Mikheil Saakashvili, Vladimir Putin, Saakashvili Shows Staying Power, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr Saakashvili, Mr Putin
Vice President Joe Biden has begun a three-day visit Monday to Ukraine and Georgia that U.S. officials say is aimed at offering U.S. proposals for strengthening ties with the two former Soviet republics. Biden meets Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko...
Tags: Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, Joe Biden, Russian Orthodox Church, Georgian, Ukrainian-Libyan Cooperation Commission, Mikheil Saakashvili, presid joe, U.S, Mr Saakashvili, vice presid
Protesters in Georgia blockedthe capital's main avenue through the night and into the secondday of an opposition campaign to demand President MikheilSaakashvili resign. Some 60,000 rallied on Thursday outside parliament to demandSaakashvili go, accusing...
Tags: Georgian Public Broadcasting, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr Saakashvili, georgians president, president mikheil, Tbilisi, opposition leaders, national disobedience, Russian
Russian media widely picked up the report by Georgia's Alia tabloid newspaper, which cited an unnamed source as saying Mr Saakashvili attacked Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili, without providing a reason why. Mr Saakashvili is known for his hot temper,...
Tags: saakashvili, georgia, russia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr Saakashvili, Saakashvili Throws Punches, prime minister, president mikhail
Georgia may have staged the shooting of a convoy carrying the Polish and Georgian presidents, say leaked Polish security service reports. A convoy carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili near Akhalgori last...
Tags: saakashvili, georgia, russia, Georgian, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr Saakashvili, Russian, South Ossetian, parliamentary commission
Mr Saakashvili said "the enemy" was still at Georgia's door and he had to address "shortcomings" in the military. Last week, Mr Saakashvili dismissed the country's prime minister, Lado Gurgenidze, in a cabinet shake-up. The president has been facing growing...
Tags: saakashvili, georgia, war, Georgian, Mr Saakashvili, Mikheil Saakashvili
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili proposed Grigol Mgaloblishvili, the Georgian ambassador to Turkey, for prime minister, RIA Novosti reports. The Georgian president told the country's parliament earlier in the day that Vladimir Gurgenidze had agreed...
Tags: saakashvili, georgia, Georgians Contemplate Future, war, prime minister, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr Saakashvili, Lado Gurgenidze, georgians president
Saakashvili leads Georgia election, opposition cries foul Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared victory on Thursday as early results showed his ruling party was on course to win a majority in a parliamentary election that the opposition said...
Tags: Georgian, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mikheil Saakashvili, Mr Saakashvili, georgia opposition, president mikheil, Central Elections Commission, United National Movement, boycotts parliament, European Union
President Mikheil Saakashvili claims he won the parliamentary elections in Georgia. Exit polls say the United National Movement won won 63% of the vote while the opposition cried foul.
Tags: georgia, saakashvili, Georgian, Mikheil Saakashvili, parliamentary electing, United National Movement, Mikheil Saakashvili, georgians president, Mr Saakashvili, claimed victory