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	Choloki River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Choloki River (in Georgian: ჩოლოქი) in Georgia forms the border between the autonomous province of Ajaria and the province of Guria.
		During the Crimean War, Russia’s 13,000 troops consisting mainly of Georgian militias under General Lieutenant Prince Ivan Malkhazovich Andronnikov (Andronikashvili) routed Sinan Pasha’s Turkish corps of 35,000 strength on the left bank of the Choloki River on June 4, 1854.
		The bridge over Choloki river that was a main road link between Ajaria and the rest of Georgia was blown up on May 2, 2004 by the ousted leadership of the Autonomy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Choloki_River (191 words)

	Encyclopedia: Georgia (country) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Rustavi is a city in the southeast of Georgia, in the province of Kartli, situated 16 miles (25 km) southeast of the capital Tbilisi on the Kura river.
		The Rioni River is the principal river of western Georgia.
		Kura (Georgian Mtkvari, Azerbaijani Kür) is a river in the Caucasus Mountains.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Georgia-(country) (9163 words)

	Choloki River -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Choloki River (in Georgian: ჩოლოქი) in (A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War) Georgia forms the border between the autonomous province of (An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea) Adzharia and the province of (additional info and facts about Guria) Guria.
		For a time in the nineteenth century it formed the border between (A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923) Turkey and Imperial (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
		Another military episode took place on April 16 1918, when the Georgian National Guard under General-Lieutenant (additional info and facts about Giorgi Mazniashvili) Giorgi Mazniashvili repulsed a (A Turkic language spoken by the Turks) Turkish invasion force.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/choloki_river.htm (224 words)

	Batumi citizens start leaving
		Citizens of Batumi, the capital of Adjaria, are fleeing from the city, reported the Rustavi 2 TV channel.
		People are crossing the automobile bridge across the Choloki River (Adjaria's administrative border) and moving towards the adjoining Potiysky district, Western Georgia.
		The checkpoint at the Choloki River is guarded by task forces of Adjaria's law-enforcement structures numbering about 400 people and a few armored vehicles.
	eng.kavkaz.memo.ru /newstext/engnews/id/641894.html (164 words)

	Georgia (country) - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The tension between the Georgian government and that of Ajaria grew increasingly after the elections until late April.
		Climaxing on May 1 when Abashidze responded to military maneuvers held by Georgia near the region with having the three bridges connecting Ajaria and the rest of Georgia over the Choloki River blown up.
		Major rivers in Georgia include the Rioni and the Mtkvari.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Georgia_(country) (1543 words)

	IOL: Rebellious Georgian region given ultimatum
		Choloki - There was defiant silence from Georgia's renegade Adjara region on Monday, the day after President Mikhail Saakashvili handed the province's leadership an ultimatum to bow to his authority in 10 days or face being ousted.
		At the Choloki river, site of one of three bridges blown up Sunday, the Adjaran side was being patrolled by paramilitaries loyal to Abashidze, armed with automatic weapons.
		Meanwhile, people desperate to get across the river had built a makeshift footbridge, but vehicles were still stranded either side of the river.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw1083571380327B262&set_id=1 (672 words)

	Pravda.RU:Georgian President allowed into Adzharia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Part of the concrete platforms on the motor bridge across the River Choloki, that blocked the road from Georgia's Poti district to Adzharia in the past four days, was cleared this morning.
		The road was cleared in view of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili's arrival in Batumi scheduled for Thursday.
		The road near the post on the bridge across the Choloki (Adzharia's administrative border) had been blocked for four days.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/03/18/52847_.html (263 words)

	Adjaria Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		However, pro-Abashidze armed groups blocked the administrative border of Adjaria at the Choloki River and prevented President Mikheil Saakashvili and other members of the government to travel to the Autonomous Republic.
		In retaliation, the two key bridges connecting Adjaria with the rest of Georgia over the Choloki River were blown up by Abashidze's forces to prevent incursion in Adjaria allegedly planned by the country’s central authorities.
		Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Interior Minister Giorgi Baramidze crossed the Choloki River on May 5 and had the talks with Ajarian Interior Minister Jemal Gogitidze.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/A/Adjaria-Crisis.htm (1106 words)

	[A-List] Georgia: 1, 000 US-Trained Special Forces, 2, 000 Troops, Tanks On Adjar Border (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Home-guard Adjarian forces at the Choloki border point are expecting attack momentarily, Jamal Gogitidze, minister of internal affairs of the Adjarian Autonomous Republic, has told journalists.
		Meanwhile, the road between Kobuleti and the Choloki border point is lined with hundreds of cars and vans loaded with supporters of Aslan Abashidze.
		The checkpoint at the Choloki is guarded by task forces of Adzharia's law-enforcement structures numbering about 400 people and a few armored vehicles.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-March/029703.html (1133 words)

	may 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Two Bangladeshi river ferries capsize at 03:30 hrs local time during a sudden storm; 240 passengers are reported missing.
		French police seek 500 kg (1,100 lb) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer stolen from the port of Honfleur at the mouth of the Seine River.
		The separatist region of Ajaria attempts to sever its links from Georgia by blowing up the three bridges connecting it to the rest of the country over the Choloki River.
	yourencyclopedia.net /may_2004.html (6057 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Adzharians destroy bridges to Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The bridge over the Choloki River that forms the internal border with Adzharia was destroyed, footage aired by Russian television network RTR showed.
		A segment of the bridge still protruded from the Georgian side of the river, but the rest was reduced to rubble.
		Saakashvili earlier told independent TV Imedi that "illegal armed formations" in Adzharia were responsible for destroying the Choloki bridge.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/05/02/adzharians_destroy_bridges_to_georgia (496 words)

	The Oakland Press: National: Georgia braces for civil war
		Residents of Adzharia stand near what is left of a bridge over the Choloki River on Sunday.
		The bridge over the Choloki River, which forms the internal border with Adzharia, was destroyed, footage aired by Russian television network RTR showed.
		Abashidze claimed that several Georgian military units set up camp only a half-mile from the border, and plans of a military invasion were published by the media.
	www.theoaklandpress.com /stories/050304/nat_20040503031.shtml (455 words)

	RUSNET :: Georgia gives ultimatum to Ajaria
		Mr Saakashvili was observing the military exercises on the Black Sea coast north of Ajaria when the bridges were blown up.
		Television showed a wrecked span of a bridge near the border, in the village of Kakuti, with concrete slabs in the river and several hundred armed men gathered nearby, Reuters reported.
		The other destroyed bridge crossed the river Choloki, on the border itself.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2004/05/03/print/breakingnews01.shtml (486 words)

	Kommersant: The “Rose Revolution” Devours Its Princes
		However, when several dozen opposition members left Poti and headed for the border on the Choloki River, soldiers of Ajarian Interior Ministry special forces opened fire on them with machine guns.
		For this purpose, he met with Ajaria's Interior Minister, Jemal Gogitidze; negotiations were held on Ajaria's administrative boundary at the Choloki River.
		As Zurab Zhvaniya accompanied by guards was wading to the Ajarian side of the Choloki River he was asked: “How likely is it that Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, who is planning to fly to Batumi, will take Aslan Abashidze with him and that Mr.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?idr=1&id=472270 (1129 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Key bridges blown up in Georgia
		SEIRAN BAROIAN / AP Armed and masked supporters of Aslan Abashidze stand near the remains of a bridge over the Choloki River in Georgia.
		The bridge over the Choloki River that forms the internal border with Adzharia was destroyed, cutting off all auto traffic, footage aired by Russian television network RTR showed.
		Abashidze claimed that several Georgian military units set up camp only a half-mile from the border, and plans of an invasion were published by the media.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/03/cache/176161.html (701 words)

	Georgia Says Russian General Led Ajarian Bridge-wrecking - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In particular, a bridge over the River Choloki was blown up, Georgian media reported.
		The road in the Choloki area on the administrative border with Ajaria in Georgia was closed on Sunday morning, RIA-Novosti news agency was told by a spokesman for the Ajarian Interior Ministry press centre, David Gergedava.
		According to unofficial reports, the reason for the closing of the road is the holding of military exercises in Poti and the arrival of President Mikhail Saakashvili in the town, and also the intention of activists of the Ajarian opposition movement, Our Ajaria, to hold a protest march along the Poti-Batumi route.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/05/03/ajaria_bridges.shtml (507 words)

	Giorgi Mazniashvili (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He served as the general of the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 and WW1.
		After the collapse of the Tsarist Empire, Mazniashvili commanded Georgian national units and defeated a Turkish invasion force at the Choloki River on April 6, 1918.
		In the spring of 1918 he suppressed a pro-Bolshevik revolt in Abkhazia.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/Giorgi-Mazniashvili.htm (311 words)

	Radio Imedi
		The Choloki Bridge restored by the 1st anniversary of peaceful revolution in the Ajara region, unveiled on May 6.
		President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili accompanied with the members of the government and together with the representatives of the local authorities of the Ajara region visited Choloki River at about 4:00pm on May 6.
		I’m very happy that the bridge has been restored by the 1st anniversary of the revolution and no one will dare to destroy it from this day on”, statement by President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili reads.
	www.radio-imedi.ge /eng/index.php?nid=6293 (107 words)

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		There are at present 5,000 supporters of the Adjarian leader, Aslan Abashidze, on the administrative frontier on the river Choloki.
		The majority of them are unarmed citizens who claim they are defending their region, and say they will not permit Tbilisi to remove Abashidze.
		According to the Georgian Internal Affairs Ministry, the authorities of the autonomous region have mobilized on the Choloki heavy military equipment and snipers.
	www.russiannewsroom.com /print.aspx?id=689 (240 words)

	ITAR-TASS
		TBILISI, May 3 (Itar-Tass) - Railroad and automobile communications between Georgia’s autonomous region of Adzharia and other parts of the country have been stalled for the second day running.
		Monday morning, three passenger trains had to stop at the station of Ureki, located eight kilometers away from the Choloki River that serves as an administrative border between Adzharia and other parts of Georgia.
		The people willing to get to Batumi have to walk to from Ureki to the Choloki River, where they can cross the border during the daytime.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/05/03/cache/176527.html (453 words)

	[A-List] Georgian Crisis Creates Regional, World Tensions, Affects Caspian Oil Pipeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		On March 14, a group of armed people at the post near the Choloki river, on the administrative border of the autonomy, did not let the Georgian president heading for Batumi into Adzharia.
		Tbilisi saw this incident as direct insubordination of the autonomy's authorities to the country's leadership.
		"Adzharia's military and law enforcement structures mined the bridge across the Choloki River on the autonomy's administrative border on March 15," the Georgian TV company, Rustavi-2, has reported.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2004-March/029716.html (4167 words)

	Sandgrouse - Georgia bird sightings
		Two Black-throated Divers Gavia arctica at Vartsikhe Reservoir, west Georgia, on 12 January 2003 was an unusual inland record and 42 Little Grebes Tachybaptus ruficollis there on the same date was a record count for the site.
		On 11–12 January 2003, at least 143 Great Crested Grebes Podiceps cristatus were on the Rioni River between Vani and Samtredia.
		Two Bonelli’s Eagles Hieraaetus fasciatus were observed from the Choloki River, near Tikeri, on 22 April 2003, the first spring record on the Black Sea migration route.
	www.osme.org /sand261/georgia.html (505 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Small group of demonstrators wanted to declare Georgia as independent parliamentary republic.
		By winning the wars Russians, gained land but at the same time Georgia expanded its borders from the southern and western sides, and in the East from the Black Sea up to the River Choloki.
		Ilia Chavchavadze and his friend created a group called “Tergdaleuli” (means man who drank water from river Tergi).
	www.geotc.net /histori/ist12_en.htm (423 words)

	Two ministers and five NGO leaders not allowed in Adjaria
		On March 16, armed supporters of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze did not let Georgian Minister of Education Khakha Lomaia through the Choloki post, which is at the autonomy's administrative border.
		Moreover, the heads of five non-government organizations (NGOs) who accompanied the minister were not allowed to cross the bridge across the Choloki River either.
		It has also become known that Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Gogi Khaindrava tried to get to the Adjarian Autonomous Republic today but failed.
	eng.kavkaz.memo.ru /newstext/engnews/id/642574.html (124 words)

	New Times \| World \| THE DOWNFALL OF A PERFECT DICTATORSHIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		It was a senseless step from the military point of view: the Choloki can be crossed not only by a tank but by any four-wheel drive vehicle.
		But the main thing was that they both knew the two of them could not co-exist in one and the same country even the one divided by the Choloki river.
		Beer flowed in a river, respectable citizens sat in cafes restaurants raising glasses to the one and the same toast, and the mob shouted Saakashvili’s name “Misha”, Misha!” on any pretext be it a small Zaporozhets car with the horn blowing or a flout all over the city.
	www.newtimes.ru /eng/detail.asp?art_id=1012 (7694 words)

	Pravda.RU Georgian President crosses Adzharia's border without hindrance
		Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, accompanied by government officials, crossed the administrative border with the Adzharian autonomy at Choloki at 11.40 Moscow time.
		Several hundreds of Adzharian leader Aslan Abashidze's supporters met the President and his escort at the border, chanting "Aslan, Aslan," a RIA Novosti correspondent reports from Choloki.
		Rallymen were holding the flag of the Revival Party led by President Abashidze, while a Georgian flag was not seen in the crowd.
	english.pravda.ru /world/2004/03/18/52850.html (1567 words)

	Adjarians Dismantle Railroad to Prevent Entry of Georgian Formations \| RosbaltNews.COM
		They said the action was taken in order to prevent Georgian military formations and equipment from entering Batumi.
		In addition, word came that a third bridge has been destroyed on the Choloki river, on the administrative border between Georgia and Adjaria.
		Saint Petersburg and Tourism: The Door Is Open
	www.rosbaltnews.com /2004/05/03/66526.html (764 words)

	Pravda.RU Georgian President allowed into Adzharia
		Part of the concrete platforms on the motor bridge across the River Choloki, that blocked the road from Georgia's Poti district to Adzharia in the past four days, was cleared this morning More details...
		Georgian Premier: Adjarian economy feeling effects of blockade
		The opinions and views of the authors do not always coincide with the point of view of PRAVDA.Ru's editors.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2004/03/18/52847.html (1673 words)

	New Times \| World \| THE HOT SUMMER OF MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		So President Mikhail Saakashvili got in the driver’s seat personally.
		Actually it was not a long drive, just some ten yards across a newly rebuilt bridge over the Choloki River, a shallow stream that a day before had been the front line separating Adzharia from Georgia.
		The picture was full of symbols, the most expressive being the windblown and ragged red ribbon to warn that it had been stretched by Abashidze’s guardsmen.
	www.newtimes.ru /eng/detail.asp?art_id=1046 (7314 words)

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