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Andrey Razbash passed away

28.07.2006

Well-known Russian TV personality, film director and producer Andrey Razbash got a heart attack and died at the age of 54. Until his death, Razbash was producing programs for Russian TV channels.. Before that he used to work as the general producer of Russian ORT TV company.

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The proper way of removing the worthy political figure

28.07.2006

Georgian President Mikhail Sahakashvili didn’t attend the non-official summit of CIS countries and dedicated his free time to regulating the Georgian government. The cadre reforms were done based on the many demands of the people and the opposition and referred to the state minister of conflict settlement Georgi Khaindrava. His name wasn’t on the list …

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Georgian government disbanded

26.07.2006

On July 21, the president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili disbanded the Georgian government. The new staff of the government has already been arranged. According to “ITAR-TASS”, Mikhail Saakashvili postponed his visit to Moscow to take part in the non-official summit of CIS countries, where he was going to meet with Russian president Putin. There are …

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Saakashvili and Russia

21.07.2006

President of Georgia is going to leave for Moscow on July 21. Besides his visit to participate in the CIS summit, Saakashvili is also going to meet with Putin one more time. This meeting was initiated by the Georgian president. The Russian president agreed to meet him like he did a month ago in St. …

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Baku-Jeyhan will function

15.07.2006

President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili will leave for Turkey to take part in the opening of the Baku-Tbilisi-Jeyhan pipeline. Saakashvili is going to meet with Turkish Prime Minister Rejep Erdoghan, as well as the presidents of Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Azeri oil reached the harbor on Armenian independence day on May 28 (over 4 billion dollars …

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“Recreating”, obscene isolation

15.07.2006

Last week, Russia closed the Higher Lars supervisory-passing point-the only one recognized on the Russian-Georgian intergovernmental border. The unexpected closing, which was due to the current reconstruction, has already caused some problems because there are over 100 cars piled up at the Higher Lars point and nearly 150 people are waiting to get permission to …

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The government and the collapse in our heads

09.07.2006

People come up with different ideas in the summer when everything is quiet on the political field (this year one of the reasons is the world soccer cup). For instance, I often ask myself whether only the government is guilty for the fact that everything is not so good as it could be. Sometimes it …

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Putin’s “obeisance” before “the Great Eight” meeting

22.06.2006

After the meeting of Putin and Saakashvili in St. Petersburg, politicians started expressing their opinions during a week and when doing so, they often state terms such as “effectiveness”.  Analysts note two things when speaking about this: first, there is difference between the understandings of territorial integrity that these two parties have. When speaking about …

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Did the negotiations fail?

15.06.2006

On June 8, the Russian www.kremlin.org web page published an article written by professor Ajdin Ajiev dedicated to the Karabagh conflict resolution entitled “Conflict resolution crisis”. According to this Azeri reporter, the turn of events following the successful meeting of the Azeri and Armenian presidents in Bucharest brought one more failure in the “Praha process”. …

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Russians who call themselves “SS”

15.06.2006

The number of murder cases in Russia committed by nationalistic skinheads is going up. This year, they killed over 20 people, as well as attacked and stole from others. There isn’t concrete information and statistical figures because there isn’t any information about such cases out of Moscow. It is said that the skinheads are the …

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