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NEWS ABOUT: Mikheil Saakashvili

Mikheil Saakashvili stories: 38 news summaries

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 Georgia Ends Coup, 
 Russia Cries Foul 

Government withdraws earlier claims of Moscow-backed coup

May 6, 09 5:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Georgian government claims to have crushed an army mutiny at a base near the capital Tbilisi, but it backed away from earlier claims that Russia was backing a coup aimed at ousting or assassinating President Mikheil Saakashvili. The plot organizer has been arrested and several others remain at large.... More »

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Russia • NATO • Georgia • Kremlin • mutiny • Mikheil Saakashvili • Georgians

Bush Makes Last Calls to World Leaders

Round of goodbyes includes Putin, Brown, Saakashvili, Berlusconi

Jan 19, 09 10:34 AM CST
(AP) - With just hours left in his presidency, President George W. Bush today made a round of phone calls to leaders around the globe. A National Security Council spokesman said the president was simply saying his goodbyes, thanking the leaders for the hospitality they had shown him and first lady Laura... More »

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Vladimir Putin • Gordon Brown • Taro Aso • Mikheil Saakashvili • Silvio Berlusconi • George W. Bush • Vicente Fox

Georgia Prez Charges Russians Fired on Motorcade

Shots fired as Georgian leader travels with Polish president to refugee camp

Nov 24, 08 4:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Shots were fired close to a motorcade ferrying Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili and Polish President Lech Kaczynski  to a refugee camp in Georgia near the border with the breakaway region of South Ossetia, officials said. Saakashvili blamed Russian troops at a border checkpoint for the gunfire, reports Voice of America.... More »

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Russia • Georgia • Lech Kaczynski • Mikheil Saakashvili • motorcade • South Ossetia • Rose Revolution • gunfire

OPINION

Georgia Needs Our Help—Not a Seat at NATO

Investment, not guns, is the way to face down Russia: Kristof

Nov 20, 08 7:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Nicholas Kristof travels to Tbilisi, where ambitious, America-loving Georgians live in fear of a resurgent Russia. The United States needs to support this capitalist enclave in the Caucasus, writes the New York Times columnist—but not by letting it join NATO. The reason? President Mikheil Saakashvili may be brilliant and... More »

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Russia • NATO • diplomacy • Georgia • Tbilisi • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia • Nicholas Kristof

Putin Wanted to Hang Georgian President
'by the Balls'

Sarkozy's team leaks transcript pre-summit

Nov 13, 08 4:29 PM CST
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin would’ve had the Russian army destroy the Georgian government and hang President Mikhail Saakashvili “by the balls” if Nicolas Sarkozy hadn’t intervened, the Times of London reports. In a transcript of August’s cease-fire negotiations leaked by the French president’s office, Putin says he... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • France • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • negotiations • Mikheil Saakashvili

Report Rebuts Georgian Claims About Invasion

It suggests nation shelled S. Ossetia
to provoke Russia

Nov 7, 08 7:24 AM CST
(Newser) - Independent military observers have published new accounts that contradict Georgia's claim that it was acting defensively against Russian aggression. The reports suggest instead that the small Georgian army moved into Tskhinvali unprovoked, unleashing artillery and rocket fire without discrimination at civilians and unarmed monitors. It also discounts the claim, made... More »

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Russia • Georgia • war • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia

 Russian Role 
 in CIA Agent's 
 Murder Probed 


Questions linger over 1993 killing as Georgia's geopolitical significance surges

Oct 18, 08 8:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The first shot of a new cold war with Russia may have been fired into a CIA station chief's head in 1993, the Wall Street Journal reports. A vodka-swilling villager was swiftly jailed for the killing of Freddie Woodruff, the top US spy in newly independent Georgia, but that man,... More »

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Russia • CIA • Georgia • Tbilisi • Mikheil Saakashvili • shooting • spies

 Rice: Russia Aimed 
 for Georgia Overthrow 

US broadside comes as Moscow refuses to allow observers into South Ossetia

Sep 18, 08 2:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice blasted Russia today as “increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad,” accusing Moscow of trying to overthrow the Georgian government during its recent invasion, the Guardian reports. The harshest US condemnation of Russia yet comes as Moscow refuses to allow European observers... More »

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Russia • Nicolas Sarkozy • Condoleezza Rice • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia

Cheney, in Georgia, Rips 'Illegitimate' Russian Action

Vice-president vows US will stand in solidarity with Georgia

Sep 4, 08 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney tore into Russia while speaking in Tbilisi today, Reuters reports, slamming its attempt to redraw Georgia's borders as a move that "cast grave doubt" on the reliability of Russia as an international partner. Cheney vowed the US would stand by Georgia, and the White House pledged $1... More »

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Russia • Dick Cheney • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili

Georgia Pushing to Rebuild Shattered Army Even Bigger

Nation hopes for US help in building modern military to face Russia threat

Sep 3, 08 5:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The dust has barely settled from the catastrophic clash with Russia but Georgia's leaders are already keen to start rebuilding the country's pulverized army, the New York Times reports. Ambitious plans are being made to remake the military bigger and better than before—with plenty of US help. But Western... More »

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Russia • military • Georgia • Tbilisi • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia

OPINION

Seeing Red Over Russia, US May Cozy Up to China

Beijing may draw closer to DC: FT

Aug 28, 08 2:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Moscow may physically stand in between Beijing and Washington, but Russia’s aggressive behavior could bring the US and China closer together, Geoff Dyer argues in the Financial Times. The Kremlin’s interference in Georgia has Washington seething, and “a low-level confrontation in Georgia that pits Russia against... More »

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China • Russia • Europe • United States • Beijing • Mikheil Saakashvili • independence movement • George W. Bush • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

 West to Put Screws to Russia

New fury at Russia's formal recognition of breakaway states

Aug 27, 08 2:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The West is preparing to crank up diplomatic pressure on Russia after its challenging move formally recognizing breakaway Ossetia and Abkhazia in the wake of its invasion of Georgia. The US, Europe and NATO have condemned the action, but Russia remains defiant. "We are not afraid of anything, including... More »

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Russia • NATO • Angela Merkel • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • David Miliband • Kremlin • Viktor Yushchenko • Yulia Tymoshenko • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Russians Pull Back, But West Not Satisfied

'Peacekeeping' posts appear likely to remain on Georgian soil

Aug 22, 08 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Having withdrawn from the Georgian city of Gori, Russia said tonight it is in full compliance with a cease-fire agreement, the New York Times reports. Despite criticism from the US and France, nations that helped broker the deal, Moscow continues to occupy the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia,... More »

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Russia • Georgia • United States • peacekeeping force • peacekeeper • Mikheil Saakashvili • ceasefire

OPINION

 Gorbachev: Blame Georgia

Former Soviet leader blasts one-sided America coverage

Aug 20, 08 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - It is important to remember that Georgia, not Russia, struck first in the conflict over South Ossetia, writes former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev for the New York Times. Russian leadership is strong domestically and did not need a victory to rally support—rather, Moscow “was dragged into the fray... More »

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Russia • Georgia • war • Mikhail Gorbachev • attack • Mikheil Saakashvili • invasion

OPINION

Shunning Won't Work:
Invite Russia to Join NATO

Increased engagement with the bear will avert more crises: Meier

Aug 20, 08 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - The kneejerk impulse to punish Russia for its Georgia incursion by withdrawing NATO civilities is exactly wrong, Andrew Meier writes in the Los Angeles Times. The only way the West can get leverage, given the case of nerves the Russians have over NATO’s expansion into former Soviet states,... More »

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Russia • NATO • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • United States • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev

analysis

Old Cold War Rhetoric Won't Work on the
New Putin

He's not Hitler or Stalin; his is a 'subtler game'

Aug 19, 08 2:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Comparing Vladimir Putin to Hitler and Stalin may invoke nostalgia in aging Cold Warriors, argues David Remnick in the New Yorker, but it ignores the realities of contemporary Russia as well as Putin’s actual motives. The Russian leader has been awaiting the chance to vent his resentment of NATO... More »

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Russia • Vladimir Putin • Cold War • Mikheil Saakashvili • South Ossetia

Russia-Georgia Rules Sunday Talk Shows

People asking if
'Russia can be
trusted,' Rice says

Aug 17, 08 7:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Russia-Georgia conflict dominated discussion on Sunday morning talk shows today, Politico reports. "People are beginning to wonder whether Russia can be trusted," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told David Gregory on NBC's Meet the Press. She also stated on Fox News Sunday and Face the Nation that... More »

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Russia • Barack Obama • Georgia • vice president • Mikheil Saakashvili • McCain 2008 • Election 2008

opinion

 Georgia Is the Victim, 
 So Blame Russia

History reveals Russia as the aggressor

Aug 17, 08 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Why blame Georgia for Russia's invasion when Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is clearly at fault? Putin has been seething ever since pro-Western Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in Georgia 3 years ago, writes Matthew Continetti in The Weekly Standard. "Putin has been pressuring Georgia for years," writes... More »

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Russia • NATO • European Union • Vladimir Putin • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • Abkhazia • South Ossetia

Russia, Georgia Built Up
to War for Months

Clash over South Ossetia was long-simmering

Aug 16, 08 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - The explosion of violence in South Ossetia took the world by surprise, but Russia and Georgia had been gearing up for war for months, reports the Wall Street Journal. Both sides had been steadily boosting their military presence around South Ossetia, waiting for the trigger that came with Ossetian shelling... More »

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Russia • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • Dmitry Medvedev • South Ossetia

 Georgia Signs
 Rice's Ceasefire
 Agreement 

Deal calls for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops

Aug 15, 08 11:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mikheil Saakashvili signed a US-brokered ceasefire agreement today following a 5-hour meeting with Condoleezza Rice, CNN reports. As he signed, the Georgian president vowed to “never, ever surrender” to the “21st-century barbarians.” Rice said says she has been assured Dmitri Medvedev will sign the deal, which calls... More »

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Russia • Condoleezza Rice • Georgia • Mikheil Saakashvili • ceasefire • George W. Bush

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