Word: mikheil
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...Soviet Union's last years when the then-Soviet Republic elected an ardent nationalist as president. The rift intensified during the breakup of the Soviet Union, when the Russian military helped Ossetian and Abkhaz separatists. And relations have deteriorated to a breaking point since the current government of Mikheil Saakashvili came to power in a popular uprising two years...
...Tbilisi. Georgia's Interior Minister accused the men of spying on the country's military, and claimed they were planning a "serious provocation." Russia called the charges unfounded and recalled its ambassador in protest. Relations between Moscow and Tbilisi have steadily worsened since the 2004 election of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has pledged to move the country toward the West...
...SENTENCED. VLADIMIR ARUTYUNIAN, 27, to life in prison for the attempted assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili; in Tbilisi, Georgia. Arutyunian, a Georgian citizen of Armenian descent, hurled a live hand grenade at the two leaders during a rally last May, but it fell short and failed to detonate. Arutyunian later killed a policeman in a shootout during his arrest. He was shown on television admitting that he threw the grenade, but his lawyer said he will appeal the sentence...
...month by leaders of other former Soviet republics. They had gathered in Poland to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the trade-union movement Solidarity, which led Poland's revolution. That was followed by "a second wave of liberation of Europe. Freedom and democracy will prevail everywhere, including Belarus," said Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of Georgia's rose revolution in 2003, and now the country's President. But the opinions of the outside world matter little to Lukashenko. Late last month, his secret police arrested two visiting Georgian activists and raided apartments of students who created and e-mailed cartoons lampooning Lukashenko...
...Bush wasn't the only one well treated in Georgia. The country is known for its hospitality. As President Mikheil Saakashvili put it during his press conference with President Bush, "Georgians have a belief that guests are a gift from God." I learned this first hand. I was the only Western journalist staying at the Baumond, a small bed and breakfast fifteen minutes from Freedom Square. As everyone else was slipping in to the high threadcount sheets at the sleek and thoroughly modern Courtyard Marriot, I was being shown in to what looked like aunt Edna's room...