Hundreds of ethnic Georgians confronted Russian peacekeeping forces in the breakaway region of South Ossetia Thursday, throwing paint and gasoline on them and forcing them to stop blocking a road project, officials said.
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June 29, 2007An opposition party leader alleged that the fatal shooting of another opposition figure had ben ordered by the government, but the top government figures rejected the claim, Pravda.Ru reports.
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May 22, 2007Leader of 21st Century – Language, Homeland, Faith opposition party Guram Sharadze, 66, was killed last night in central Tbilisi, Georgia, the REGNUM news agency reports.
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Russia and the United States clashed sharply over Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia on Tuesday as the United Nations Security Council debated renewing a U.N. mission in the Caucasus state.
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April 11, 2007Russia waived its six-month-old embargo on air links with its ex-Soviet neighbor Georgia on Saturday to allow a planeload of people to visit relatives in Russia for Easter, the Reuters news agency reported.
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April 8, 2007Georgia’s Ministry of Justice has announced it is suing Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for departing Georgian citizens illegally, the UPI reported March 26.
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March 27, 2007Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has criticized the Russian peacekeeping effort in his country’s breakaway regions, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, effectively saying Russian troops should leave, Reuters news agency reported March 15.
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March 17, 2007Several dozens people were detained as Georgian law enforcers held a special operation against bribery in the country’s tax service, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Tuesday quoting a source in Georgian Interior Ministry.
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March 14, 2007The Georgian Parliament passed a declaration supporting Georgia’s aspirations for NATO membership with 160 votes to 0 on March 13, Civil Georgia web-site reports.
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Shelling of villages in upper Kodori Gorge was “a well-planned provocation aimed against Georgia’s unity and territorial integrity,†Georgian Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze said on March 12.
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March 12, 2007
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