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Both are produced by Rustavi 2, a fiercely independent TV channel much unloved by the government. Often the focus of the exposés has been feared Interior Minister Kakha Targamadze, who in October went on air in a Rustavi 2 studio to accuse the channel of "treason" and to threaten, "We will shut you down...
...Soviet Foreign Minister from 1985 to 1991, Shevardnadze has ruled Georgia for the past 29 years, initially as First Secretary of the Georgian Socialist Republic's Communist Party. Things had been the same for so long that it seemed they would never change. But at the end of October, Rustavi 2 was raided by agents from the Security Ministry - and loyal viewers decided they had had enough. Thousands took to the streets in protest. Shevardnadze, facing a popular crisis, fired his entire cabinet...
...revelation clearly startles Russians. An official report from Estonia excoriates the republic's Economy Minister for "complete passiveness and impotence"; he did not make chemical and pulp plants install antipollution devices required by law. Izvestia is complaining about a metallurgical plant that has illegally "poisoned" the air of Rustavi, near Tbilisi. In Russia's far north, Pravda says, an oil-drilling crew did not take "the most basic precautions" to avoid polluting the Pechora River...
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