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		<title>Georgian Economy At A Glance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2006 05:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Galt &#038; Taggart Securities: Georgian economy is resilient and on the growth path from which it will not be easily dislodged<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=76&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Russia Steps Up the Pressure On Georgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only Russian-made products I still use in my daily life are gas in my kitchen and matches I light it with. While I cannot yet expect the disappearance of matches - as they apparently aren't a product strategic enough for Russia to cut it's supply to Georgia - soon I won't be able to tell for sure that the gas I'm using is Russian.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=75&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Business in Georgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaxa Bendukidze is actually the one who is to be thanked for the liberalism in the economy.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=73&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saakashvili To Visit Israel: Russia&#8217;s irritated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 15:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>FT On Possible US-Russia Horse-Trading</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A UN decision on Iran&#8217;s nuclear program next week coming, The Financial Times writes, that while majority of observers think that US exchanged last week&#8217;s resolution on Georgia for Russia&#8217;s support of sanctions against North Korea the Bush administration rejects any suggestions of the horse-trading with Russia. &#8220;We will not sell out Georgia,&#8221; declared Matt [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=69&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vladimir The Cinical</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports interesting details of the informal EU-Russia meeting in Lahti last Friday. As expected Putin used well-known European divisions on Russia openly jeering at Balts when they tried to rise the issue of Russian treatment of Georgia. Jacques Chirac, the French president, indicated that Europe should adopt a light touch. But Aigars Kalvitis, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=62&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saakashvili comments on Putin&#8217;s accusations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saakashvili slamed Putin over the accusations that Georgia is to blame for the worsening of relations with Russia. &#8220;I remeber general Grachev [Russian minister of defence 1993, during the war in Abkhazia], saying that Georgians paint jet-fighters in Russian colors and bomb their own cities [in Abkhazia]. The difference [beetwen Putin's and Grachev's accusations] is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=68&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Misha wants it again</title>
		<link>http://djdrive.wordpress.com/2006/10/21/misha-wants-it-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Oct 2006 15:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid escalated confrontation with Russia and no perspective of things getting better there Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is apparently trying to guarantee himself and his ruling United National Movement (UNM) from surprises due to a possible Moscow involvement. Saakashvili asked the parliament to cut his term by several months and hold parliamentary and presidential elections [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=60&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Chechnya&#8217;s psycho zookeeper</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popbitch &#8211; это еженедельная коллекция британских &#8220;светских&#8221; сплетен, которая, как говорят, оперативнее даже The Sun. Кадыров попал в выпуск вместе в Боно, принцем Гарри и другими завсегдатаями британских таблоидов. Коротко, ясно и по делу. 15 минут славы Рамзана только начинаются. Meet Chechnya&#8217;s psycho zookeeper Did Ramzan assassinate his harshest critic? Prime suspect in the murder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=40&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the West needs to stand by Georgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If Russia is allowed to continue bullying its neighbour, its neo-imperialist appetite will spread to our front door&#8220;.- Edward Lucas The Times, UK Перевод на русский на Georgia Online (хороший саит с информацией из и о Грузии).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=djdrive.wordpress.com&amp;blog=490066&amp;post=39&amp;subd=djdrive&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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