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...government linked the mutiny to a coup plot it claims to have discovered two months ago, said Utiashvili, the Interior Ministry spokesman. Government officials showed the press a video claiming to show Givi Khvaladze, a former official at the Defense Ministry, outlining plans to seize control of the government with 200 military vehicles, heavy armor and 5,000 Russian soldiers. "Russia will come to our assistance" and will help "liquidate the leaders" of the government, he says in the video, according to Interfax. Khvaladze as well as a handful of other high-ranking officials are under arrest, while others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Military Mutiny in Georgia | 5/6/2009 | See Source »

...stories are reversed in Tbilisi, capital of Georgia, where lurid posters portray Moscow's leaders Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev as Hitler and Mussolini and show a gluttonous Russia devouring Georgia, asking "Who's Next?" Givi Tadiashvili fled from a village near Tskhinvali, where he said looters showed up after the bombing ended, demanding water and wine to drink. They made his neighbor drink first, to make sure the liquids were not poisoned. Three villages were burned near his home. "They do it to show their aggression. It's their revenge not to let us go back," he says. Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Toll in Georgia | 8/20/2008 | See Source »

...autocrat was on his way out in a former Soviet satellite. Late last year it was Eduard Shevardnadze, President of Georgia. This time, it was Aslan Abashidze, for the past 13 years the authoritarian boss of Ajaria; an autonomous republic in Georgia's southwest corner. "It's over," said Givi Targamadze, chairman of Georgia's Parliamentary Committee for Defense and Security. "The only thing that remains to be seen is who will come from Moscow to take Mr. Abashidze to Russia." That same night, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, Igor Ivanov, arrived to tell Abashidze it was time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Name of the Rose | 5/9/2004 | See Source »

...Givi G. Gumbaridze, who has been Georgia's KGB chief for two months, was elected to replace Patiashvili. Gumbaridze, 45, previously served as party leader in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital city of 1.2 million people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Georgia's Premier Ousted After Riot | 4/15/1989 | See Source »

...givi, gift (acc.), givis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volapuk. | 2/5/1887 | See Source »

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