Word: tbilisi
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...suspicion that the Congress would turn into a totally rubber-stamp legislature, however, was dispelled minutes into the opening session, when a Latvian delegate strode uninvited to the podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that...
...great Napoleon, who fearing neither bullets nor death, led the nation to victory, but owing to sycophants and his wife, transformed the republic into an empire." Marju Lauristin, a prominent Estonian nationalist, asked who in the ruling Politburo "knew in advance that troops would be used in Tbilisi." Others complained about Gorbachev's failure to improve his people's standard of living and mentioned rumors that he is building a fancy dacha for himself on the Black Sea in Crimea. Even the man who stood up to nominate Gorbachev for President, author Chingiz Aitmatov, did so with a few cavils...
...government at daily press briefings, packaging information with slivers of barbed wit. When clashes between troops and nationalist demonstrators in Shevardnadze's native republic of Georgia claimed the lives of 20 people last month, the Foreign Minister canceled a visit to East and West Germany and flew to Tbilisi. He has called the peacekeeping mission "my toughest challenge" so far. The result: a purge of the party and government leadership...
...when Moscow attempted to replace Georgian with Russian as the republic's official language, protesters flooded the avenues of Tbilisi. But the region's party secretary defused the crisis by boldly stepping before the angry crowds and announcing that he agreed with them. His name: Eduard Shevardnadze...
...more independence from Moscow. The Supreme Soviet last week issued a double-edged decree that is not likely to improve matters. It replaces discredited laws against dissidents but conveniently enables the state to imprison those found guilty of "kindling inter-ethnic or racial hostility." Unless ethnic passions in Tbilisi can be lulled, the Georgians may find themselves among the first to test that...