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About predictions, friendship and absurdity

21.04.2006

We can predict pretty well what’s next for the Georgian-Russian relations. But it is not enough to predict because what is happening now is more like absurdity. Russia has stopped the import of Georgian wine products to its territory. Before that, the number of Georgian wine product exports to Russia used to be 80% of …

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Nuclear power plant in Turkey

21.04.2006

Turkey will have its first 500 megawatt nuclear power plant by 2015. The Turkish government has decided to get the nuclear power plant working in the Sinopi region near the Black Sea. This nuclear power plant, which is going to be constructed throughout the course of 6-8 years, is expected to cover nearly 5% of …

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The “Safarovs” were arrested

21.04.2006

Baku police arrested a group of young people for organizing an illegal demonstration for defending Ramil Safarov, who has just recently been sentenced to life in prison by the Hungarian court. Hundreds of youth had tried to organize a march, but the police were able to stop the demonstration. The students have tried to get …

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Turkey: on the threshold of a new militant revolution

21.04.2006

Iranian authorities are only after one thing by coming up with new nuclear technologies each week: to justify buying war-heads from Ukraine back in the 90s. I would just like the reader to know that at the time, the prime minister of Ukraine was P. Lozarenko, who is currently in the U.S. and is being …

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“Pestiferous” impact

15.04.2006

Georgia has lost most part of its export, which was one of the main sources to fill the Georgian budget. Russia affected the weak economy of Georgia by closing the import of alcoholic drinks from Georgia. According to the official information from Russia there were pestiferous materials in the imported wine and brandy. But Moscow …

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Badri is in danger

10.04.2006

“Silence is equal to confessing to a crime,” said Badri Patarkatsishvili during the meeting of the Businessmen’s Federation and accused the Georgian authorities of spending 160 million lari, which they had stolen from businessmen through racketing. His allegations sounded very convincing. During his speech, Patarkatsishvili emphasized a couple of times that his criticisms are correct …

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Couldn’t sell the soul

07.04.2006

A 24 years old young Chinese tried to sell his soul with the help of the Internet. The number of participants in the virtual auction was 59 and the highest price offered was $85. This young man was a citizen of Shanghai and told one of Hong-Kong newspapers that he didn’t need his soul any …

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Patarkatsishvili attacks

07.04.2006

The true leader of the new Georgian opposition is well-known businessman, president of the businessmen’s union of Georgia and president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Georgia Badri Patarkatsishvili. This was the announcement made by ideologist of the “National Movement” party and vice-president of the committee on legal issues of the National Assembly of …

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Piatrovski is accused

02.04.2006

“Day.az” touched upon director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piatrovsi’s visit to Armenia and stated that the well-known Middle Eastern scientist has offended the Turkish people by giving out wrong historical information. “Piatrovski forgot about his scientist when he started going back to his Armenian roots,” wrote the Azerbaijani newspaper. This protest has to do with …

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Lukashenko could keep his position

02.04.2006

Nobody was surprised about the results of the presidential elections in Belarus. According to the Central Electoral Commission of Belarus the existing president, Alexandr Lukashenko got 82% of votes. The oppositional candidates got few votes (Alexandr Milinkevich – 6%, Sergey Haydukevich – 3,5%, Alexandr Kozulin – 2,3%). The voter participation capacity covered over 90%. Of …

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