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Georgia's government has called Tuesday's mutiny at a military base near Tbilisi part of a coup attempt orchestrated by Russia, but opponents of beleaguered President Mikheil Saakashvili accuse him of using the incident to crack down on mounting domestic opposition. Soldiers in tanks and armored personnel carriers raced to the base in Mukhrovani, 20 miles from the capital, to confront mutinous soldiers, about 500 of whom were arrested after the standoff ended peacefully...
...Georgia Brandishing Sticks, Throwing Carrots More than 60,000 protesters converged on Tbilisi on April 9, calling for President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign over his mishandling of last year's conflict with Russia. The demonstrators, representing a wide range of opposition parties, criticized Saakashvili's lavish lifestyle and his defeat in the war over the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Some threw carrots and cabbage at the presidential residence, released a live rabbit (to represent, they said, his rabbitlike cowardice against Russia) and mocked him in political theater performances. But after a week, the number of protesters had dwindled...
...Frankly, I didn't expect Russians to open fire. I thought they clearly saw that this was an official cortege.' Georgian President MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, accusing Russian forces near the Georgian border of firing upon his motorcade during a trip with Poland's President...
...There were certainly war crimes committed, certainly not by us.' MIKHEIL SAAKASHVILI, Georgia's President, denying that his armed forces targeted civilians during their August attempt to reclaim the South Ossetia region...
...rivalry between the two has persisted, and the summer's hostilities between Russia and Georgia sharpened the differences between the President and his erstwhile partner over Ukraine's direction. Yushchenko rushed to side with Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili and urged NATO members to expedite Ukraine's NATO membership; Tymoshenko was sharply critical of his response, arguing instead for neutrality and promising voters that she would keep Ukraine out of conflicts between other countries. While committed in principle to NATO membership at some point in the future, she is in no hurry to force the matter or take any steps that...