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...small South Caucusus nation of Georgia, the pace of change over the last few weeks has been enough to take your breath away. Just last month thousands of students were celebrating in the streets of Tbilisi, singing praises of the “bloodless revolution” that unseated Georgian President Eduard A. Shevardnadze. In a seeming about-face, yesterday the autonomous Georgian province of Adzharia announced that it would be boycotting participation in the Jan. 4 presidential election. This latest development has dealt a painful blow to the opposition movement, which had been gaining momentum the country...
...Afghanistan. Georgia seems like a particularly vulnerable country in this respect. As highlighted by the announcement yesterday in Adzaharia, Georgia is more of a disconnected confederation of states than a country. Like Afghanistan, many of the leaders in regional provinces have far more authority than the government in Tbilisi and view the central authority with varying degrees of skepticism. In order to prevent terrorist activities from formenting in Georgia, the leading candidate for president, Mikhail Saakashvili, if elected should concentrate his efforts on shoring up the Tbilisi control and reducing the influence of regional leaders...
...urge to play a role in Saakashvili’s efforts to transform the country. Saakashvili, who is likely to win the election in January, is an American-trained lawyer, but he is inexperienced and he may be susceptible to Russian efforts to instill a malleable atmosphere in Tbilisi. Given the economic incentive for Russia to exploit the region’s resources, and the security concerns in neighboring Chechnya, it seems unlikely that Russia will see Saakashvili’s ascent as any significant reason to change their oppressive policy toward the region. This makes it even more important...
...Georgian velvet revolution!" proclaimed jubilant radical opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili as he and hundreds of cheering supporters burst into Tbilisi's parliament Saturday afternoon. By nightfall, the country was in chaos, its leadership uncertain, its territorial integrity threatened - and there were still some fears that the velvet might become stained with blood. The legislative body, elected in Nov 2. polls that were marred by charges of widespread vote rigging, had been ordered into session by President Eduard Shevardnadze, but only 114 of the 235 deputies had bothered to show up. The security services, who had earlier said they would...
...they fail to speed progress in meeting membership conditions. The Commission also warned Ankara that the absence of a settlement for Cyprus "could become a serious obstacle" to Turkey's hopes of starting talks on E.U. entry in 2005. Flawed Result GEORGIA Thousands of protesters gathered in the capital, Tbilisi, in support of opposition groups claiming that parliamentary elections in the former Soviet republic were rigged by President Eduard Shevardnadze's government. Interim results had a pro-Shevardnadze bloc vying for the lead with a regional grouping allied to the government, despite exit polls that showed popular support...