Keti Bochorishvili
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As Salome Zourabichvili is dismissed from her ministerial post, observers say the rift is deepening between Georgia’s government and opposition.
President-elect Saakashvili begins to confront Georgia’s economic collapse and endemic corruption.
An upsurge of fighting on the Georgian-Chechnya border had sparked the worst quarrel in years between Tbilisi and Moscow.
Parties loyal to President Shevardnadze were humiliated in Georgia's local elections, amid scenes of chaos and claims of vote-rigging.
The impoverished villagers of the Kodori Gorge fear the consequences of a breakdown in the Georgia-Abkhazia peace process