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• EUROASIA: Azerbaijan is getting prepared to export its gas to Europe

  Published: September 2, 2007, 6:15 pm

  Tags: Socar, Shakh Deniz, Azerbaijan, Baku Tbilisi Erzurum Pipeline, Turkey, Greece, Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan Pipeline, Rovnag Abdullayev, Azerbaijani National Oil Company

  On August 30, President of the Azerbaijani... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• CASPIAN STATES: Iran seeks oil swaps

  Published: September 3, 2007, 5:33 pm

  Tags: Energy Assets, Ilsa, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Libya, Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan Pipeline, Caspian States, Russia, Opec, Usa, Global Market, Transneft, Nioc, Iran Libya Sanctions Act

  Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Georgia: Thousands Rally For Detained Ex-Minister

  Published: September 28, 2007, 12:22 pm

  Tags: World, Georgia, Tbilisi

  Several thousands of protesters gathered today in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, to support former Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili, who was arrested Thursday (September 27) on corruption-related charges.

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• EUROASIA: Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline Project

  Published: September 29, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Islamabad, Kabul, Usa, Ashgabat, China, New Delhi, Transneft, Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan Pipeline, Russia, Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan Pipeline

  Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, armchair journalists and strategists have promulgated the concept that a new Great Game is afoot in Eurasia. This time, the prize is not land but access to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Women Asked To Strip Off For New City Show

  Published: October 18, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Tbilisi, Artist, Asked, Baring, Bradshaw, Called, Clash, Culture, Dancing, Defence, Fellow, Fought, Glasgow, Laura, Looking, Meaning, Nic, Nude, Participants, Project, Searching, Shapes, Showby, Sizes, Stage, Strip, Times, Titled, Zero

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• Thousands Rally Against Pro-Western President of Georgia

  Published: November 3, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Thousands, Rally, Against, Pro Western, President, Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, United States, Irakli Okruashvili, Tbilisi, Reuters Group Plc, David Darchiashvili, David Usupashvili, Eduard A Shevardnadze, Geneva, European Union, Nato

  TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 2 -- Tens of thousands of protesters thronged Tbilisi's main avenue Friday to rail against Georgia's pro-Western president, Mikheil Saakashvili, four years to the month after he was swept to power by the street uprising known as the Rose Revolution.

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• Fearing Eruption, Villagers Flee From Volcano

  Published: November 4, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fearing, Eruption, Villagers, Flee, From, Volcano, Al Qaeda, Ibrahim Gambari, Mikhail Saakashvili, Afghanistan, United Nations, Angela Merkel, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Moammar Gadhafi, Tbilisi, European Union, Germany, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Mexico, Myanmar, United States

  Thousands of opposition activists jammed the streets of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Saturday for a second day of protests, demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation and earlier parliamentary elections.

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Kosovo, Europe, Irakli Okruashvili, Mikhail Saakashvili, Ethiopia, European Union, Serbia, Turkey, United Nations, United States, Georgia, Asmara, Bashar Assad, Madrid, Muhammad Nasif, Orhan Pamuk, Recife Brazil, Tbilisi, West Africa, Afghanistan, Eritrea, Euro

  Dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe spent three weeks at sea off the coast of West Africa and threw nearly 50 bodies overboard after their vessel lost power and supplies dwindled, officials said.

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• Chaos Erupts in Georgia, Tension with Russia Grows

  Published: November 7, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Georgia, Russia, Tbilisi, Mikhail, Politics, President, Riot, Saakashvili

  Tension between Russia and the US are growing and tensions betweens Russia and Georgia seem to have boiled over with recent demonstrations and now the expulsion of three Russian diplomats from the read more

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• Georgia cracks down on riots with emergency decree

  Published: November 8, 2007, 10:56 am

  Tags: World, Georgia, State Of Emergency, Tbilisi

  After months of tension and more than a week of strikes, the Georgian Government has locked down the country's capital, declaring a 15-day state of emergency.

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• Hollow Victory

  Published: November 9, 2007, 7:25 pm

  Tags: Georgia, Tbilisi, Mikhail Saakashvili

  Georgia's riots may be over, but for President Saakashvili it's also the end of his stint as the darling of the West.

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• Georgia Looks Toward Election as Calm Returns to Capital

  Published: November 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Georgia, Looks, Toward, Election, Calm, Returns, Capital, Badri Patarkatsishvili, Ekaterina Sharashidze, Irakli Okruashvili, Mikhail Saakashvili, Nino Burjanadze, London, Matthew J Bryza, Tbilisi, Georgia S Parliament, Russia, U S Department Of State, United Oppositi

  TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 9 -- Two days after riot police clashed with anti-government protesters in Georgia's capital, the streets returned to normal Friday as the government worked to turn national and international attention toward a special presidential election scheduled for Jan. 5.

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• As Georgia Moves to End Emergency, Visiting Envoy Presses U.S. Agenda

  Published: November 16, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Georgia, Moves, End, Emergency, Visiting, Envoy, Presses, U S, Agenda, United States, Matthew J Bryza, Mikhail Saakashvili, George W Bush, Tbilisi, Georgian Foundation For Strategic And International Studies, Millennium Challenge Corporation, U S Department Of Stat

  TBILISI, Georgia, Nov. 15 -- When visiting State Department official Matthew J. Bryza appeared on Georgia's state television Wednesday night, much of the country tuned in, in part because there wasn't much else to watch.

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• Saakashvili wins election in Georgia with 52.5% - exit polls

  Published: January 5, 2008, 10:01 pm

  Tags: World, Elections, Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Tbilisi

  TBILISI, January 5 (RIA Novosti) - Mikheil Saakashvili has won Georgia's presidential election in the first round with 52.5% of the vote, according to early exit polls organized by Georgian TV companies.

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• 20,000 Protest Georgia's President

  Published: February 16, 2008, 2:35 am

  Tags: Georgia, Tbilisi, Culturite, Elections, Mikhail Saakashvili, Notices, Protest, Rally, World

  A huge protest rally was held in Georgia over claims that the current president won a January election by fraud."TBILISI, GEORGIA More than 20,000 opposition supporters rallied in Georgia's capital Friday, trying to increase pressure on President Mikhail Saakashvili...read more

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