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	FOR MEDIA: GEORGIA & USA VISIT
		In one storied moment, Minister Saakashvili brought incriminating photos to a televised meeting of the government, photos that were proof of corruption among his ministers who were at the table.
		Mikheil Saakashvili and the late Zurab Zhvania, a member of Parliament from the “United Democrats” party, united to reject the election results and called on the public to protest and to protest in public.
		Saakashvili was determined that the protests would be determinedly non-violent, lawful and constitutional.
	www.georgiawelcomesusa.com /biography.htm (1773 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| International \| Winner takes all
		Mikhail Saakashvili, the 36 year-old leader of the "velvet revolution", the charismatic New York lawyer, the uncompromising foe of corruption, is now Georgia's president.
		Saakashvili in turn made a solemn promise that these elections will be the last in which the citizens of the autonomies will not take part.
		Saakashvili's ongoing personal crusade for fairness and justice is likely to put his life in danger and threaten to turn his ambitious dream into a terrible nightmare.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/672/in3.htm (1082 words)

	"Global Leaders": Interview with Mikhail Saakashvili
		Mikhail Saakashvili: Well, I really, first of all we should realise that how much perceptions have changed in our country, I mean in the Soviet Union, people know very little about Turkey, even if their villages had been next to each other across the border.
		Mikhail Saakashvili: Well I mean… in terms of corruption as I told you now we are also saying that the World Bank Report that in all transitional economies we are the number one fighters in the world of corruption.
		Mikhail Saakashvili: Well, first of all, I mean, we obviously have a very strong and cordial relationship with the United States, but we are primarily a European country.
	www.global-leaders.tv /en/archive/mikhail_saakashvili.asp (4943 words)

	President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili \| Biography, Speeches, Breifings, Articles
		Saakashvili's companions, supporters and members of the National Movement were congratulating Saakashvili on this victory yesterday at the Philharmonic, where they were eagerly waiting for the announcement of the exit - polls results.
		Mikhail Saakashvili studied in Ukraine, France and in the United States, at Columbia University law school, where he was later hired by one of the law firms in New York.
		Saakashvili was elected MP to Vake district according to the majority system twice.
	www.saakashvili.com /page2.html (430 words)

	Mikhail Saakashvili (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mikhail Saakashvili (born December 21, 1967), Georgian jurist and politician, is the President of Georgia.
		In January 2000, Saakashvili was appointed Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
		Saakashvili was sworn in as President in Tblisi on January 25, 2004.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Mikhail_Saakashvili.html (934 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Profile: Mikhail Saakashvili
		Mikhail Saakashvili, 36, has built himself the reputation of a crusader against corruption and an enemy of poverty.
		Mr Saakashvili is proud of his own achievements, which he believes qualify him to deal with his country's problems.
		But while Mr Saakashvili has vigorously pursued his goal of radical change and a "velvet revolution", he appears to retain an affection for his former mentor.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3231852.stm (528 words)

	Mikhail Saakashvili: new romantic or modern realist? Nino Nanava - openDemocracy
		Saakashvili has proved by example that he was the right person to lead the country in the process of resistance that led to the resignation of Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Saakashvili, the US attorney and Georgian justice minister, is capable of implementing real change by identifying real obstacles, as opposed to Gamsakhurdia’s paranoid depictions of ‘agents of the Kremlin’, ironically inclusive of the then US president, George Bush senior.
		Fourth, Saakashvili is (unlike Gamsakhurdia) surrounded by a core of professional politicians of proven ability — including interim president Nino Burdzhanadze, another of the constitution’s ‘founding fathers’, and interim state minister Zurab Zhvania, the arch political organiser who invited Saakashvili back from New York.
	www.opendemocracy.net /articles/View.jsp?id=1637 (1056 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Saakashviliâs campaign against corruption
		Even as Georgians rejoiced Mikhail Saakashvili's victory, activists stated that the new government would have to prove it was better at fighting corruption than the former president, otherwise Saakashvili would share his fate.
		Mikhail Saakashvili, a former justice minister in Shevardnadze's government from 2000-2001, was voted into office 4 January 2004 with 96 per cent of the vote.
		Originally seen as Shevardnadze's groomed pupil, Saakashvili left his position as the justice minister, citing that he believed it was "immoral" to remain a part of the corrupt government.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10423 (1848 words)

	Georgia, a new emerging economy
		Mikhail Saakashvili, the president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia often returns to his pet subject of the retrieval of the territorial integrity of Georgia.
		President Saakashvili said in an interview with Reuters that he was counting on the USA's assistance in the recreation of the territorial integrity of his country.
		Mikhail Saakashvili confirmed his absolute helplessness: the incumbent Georgian government is unable to solve the problem of territorial integrity on its own.
	www.newnations.com /archive/2005/December/ge.html (2183 words)

	Georgian election worsens Russian-US tensions
		Mikhail Saakashvili is almost certain to be announced as the landslide winner of Georgian presidential election held on January 4.
		Saakashvili has announced his initial intentions in government to be a serious crackdown on corruption, to establish the rule of law and protect the Georgian judiciary and state.
		Saakashvili is their man and Washington will not allow that fact to slip his mind even for a second.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2004/jan2004/geor-j12.shtml (1504 words)

	John Laughland: Georgia on their mind \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Saakashvili started his march on Tbilisi last November with a rally in front of the statue of Stalin in his birthplace, Gori.
		Unfazed, the western media continue to chatter about Saakashvili's democratic credentials, even though his seizure of power was consolidated with more than 95% of the vote in a poll in January, and even though he said last week that he did not see the point of having any opposition deputies in the national parliament.
		Not only was Saakashvili minister of justice under Shevardnadze, but the thuggish Zurab Zhvania, the prime minister, had the same job under Shevardnadze, during which the worst abuses of power (now denounced) occurred.
	www.guardian.co.uk /georgia/story/0,,1183424,00.html (888 words)

	Russia, Georgia, South Ossetia, Prospects of War - CDI RW 27 August 2004
		MOSCOW (RIA Novosti commentator Arseny Palievsky) - The statement made by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to the effect that his country was on the verge of war sounded like an explosion in the lull in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone.
		Other experts agree that the anti-Russian statements made by Mikhail Saakashvili are nothing more than bluff and an attempt to curry favour with the voters and the West after the failure of his blitzkrieg in South Ossetia.
		Mikhail Saakashvili only talks about a new way for Georgia and puts the blame for the suffering of the Georgian people on their past idols - presidents Gamsakhurdia and Shevardnadze.
	www.cdi.org /Russia/320-8.cfm (893 words)

	Columbia Magazine
		Mikhail Saakashvili was inaugurated as president of Georgia in Tbilisi on January 25, 2004.
		Saakashvili found the place in a post-Soviet shambles — full of drab, decrepit wooden desks and chairs, along with evidence of the cats Shevardnadze had brought in to address the building’s rat problem.
		Saakashvili and other reform-minded Georgians with patriotic pangs have come home to help out, putting into action their classroom studies of elections and other democratic institutions.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/alumni/Magazine/Winter2005/saakashvili.html (2157 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive - Saakashvili Claims Victory In Georgian Poll
		There were six names on Sunday's ballot paper but Mikhail Saakashvili, a 36-year-old reformer with pro-Western leanings, was the overwhelming favourite to take the top job in the impoverished and chaotic former Soviet republic.
		Saakashvili, who has a Dutch wife and speaks fluent French, English, Georgian and Russian, as well as Ukrainian, studied at Columbia University law school in the US and briefly served as a minister in Shevardnadze's government.
		He quit and joined the opposition, and when a 2 November parliamentary election was widely deemed to have been rigged by the government, he spearheaded weeks of mass protests on the streets of Tbilisi.
	english.aljazeera.net /English/archive/archive?ArchiveId=434 (402 words)

	Georgia Update - European Forum
		Besides that, Saakashvili has the goal to become a member of both NATO en the European Union and the government is restoring its territorial integrity in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
		Mikhail Saakashvili became the joint presidential candidate of the ruling coalition.
		Mikhail Saakashvili is seen as a pro-Western man. He studied in the US and is married to a Dutch woman.
	www.europeanforum.net /country/georgia (7100 words)

	Mikhail Saakashvili, Schema-Root news (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mikhail Saakashvili decided to grant the Russian actor Stanislaw Sadalski with the honored citizenship of Georgia.
		Zhvania, along with President Mikhail Saakashvili, was a key leader in the weeks-long street protests known as the Rose Revolution, which toppled former...
		Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said earlier that "it is time for Georgia's complete Reunion by means of returning [the self-proclaimed republics of]...
	www.schema-root.org /region/europe/central_&_eastern/georgia/government/officials/mikhail_saakashvili (1072 words)

	Mikhail Saakashvili Sworn in as Georgia's New President
		Mikhail Saakashvili pledged to defend Georgia's constitution and the dignity of the nation's people as he took the presidential oath of office outside the parliament in Tbilisi.
		Saakashvili, who has said he wants to be a unifier, thanked the United States for its support of Georgia as it seeks to implement reforms.
		Saakashvili swept this month's presidential election after leading opposition protests against fraudulent parliamentary elections and what was seen as years of corruption and misrule.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2004-01/a-2004-01-25-3-Mikhail.cfm (236 words)

	Georgia's Saakashvili Looks to the West (phillyBurbs.com) \| Europe
		Mikhail Saakashvili took the helm of the troubled Caucasus Mountain nation Sunday in an inauguration ceremony packed with symbolism, raising a European Union flag alongside Georgia's new banner and saluting soldiers he said will help strengthen and unify the fractured country.
		Saakashvili, who led protests that prompted the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze in November, promised to tackle the deep-seated problems he has inherited as head of a country wracked since the 1991 Soviet collapse by poverty, corruption and civil war.
		Saakashvili pledged to improve relations with Russia, which dominated Georgia for more than two centuries and still wields strong levers of control, providing most of the country's energy, maintaining two military bases on its territory and consulting with separatist regions.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/89-01262004-233947.html (556 words)

	Mikhail Saakashvili - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Mikhail Saakashvili (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი) (born Thursday, December 21, 1967), Georgian jurist and politician, is the President of Georgia.
		Saakashvili graduated from the School of International Law of the Kiev State University (Ukraine) in 1992.
		Saakashvili was sworn in as President in Tbilisi on January 25, 2004.
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Mikhail_Saakashvili (1067 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Georgian president denied entry to independent-minded province
		Saakashvili and his entourage were heading to Adzharia for campaign appearances ahead of Georgia's March 28 parliamentary election.
		Saakashvili and his aides went to the neighboring Poti region, where security officials also were summoned for immediate talks, Georgian television reported.
		Saakashvili, who was elected in January, has vowed to rein in the province.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040314-0804-georgia-adzharia.html (603 words)

	Newsvine - State of Emergency in Nation of Georgia
		TBILISI — U.S.-allied President Mikhail Saakashvili declared a state of emergency Wednesday in the capital of Georgia, where six days of demonstrations have fueled a worsening crisis.
		Saakashvili said in a televised address that Russian spy agencies were behind the protests and that three Russian diplomats were being expelled because of espionage activities.
		Saakashvili said he regretted the use of force, but argued that it was necessary to prevent the country from sliding into chaos.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2007/11/07/1078794-pro-opposition-tv-shut-in-georgia (721 words)

	NCSJ - NY Times Profile: Mikhail Saakashvili
		Saakashvili promises the country will be ready for European Union consideration within three years, will have reconstituted borders within five years and will operate under the rule of law pretty much immediately.
		Saakashvili argues that the difference is in the historical moment -- he has learned from the others' failures, he says -- and in his electorate too.
		Saakashvili told me that he realizes that many of the country's most pressing problems, like territorial integrity and judicial reform, will have to be dealt with gradually, with careful compromises.
	www.ncsj.org /AuxPages/053004NYT_Saak.shtml (2765 words)

	USATODAY.com - Leader of breakaway Georgian province declares state of emergency (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Saakashvili has pledged to rein in Adzharia in a bid to unite the fractured country he has led since January.
		Saakashvili said that air, land and sea routes to Adzharia would be closed and the government would also move to freeze foreign bank accounts belonging to Adzharian officials.
		Saakashvili has made uniting the Caucasus Mountain country a key goal since his election, but the escalating tension stoked fears of hostilities like those that led to devastating wars in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, two rebellious provinces that broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-15-georgia-adzharia_x.htm (622 words)

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		Saakashvili's war rhetoric appears to be a stratagem to force a confrontation with Russia, claiming Russian forces cannot maintain security in the region — with the hope that Georgia's newfound ally, the United States, will side with it as Saakashvili attempts to reclaim authority over all of sovereign Georgia.
		Saakashvili desires to complete the "Rose Revolution" in a bid toward nationwide reunification as a substitute for slow and uninspiring economic and political reform results centered on his Tbilisi-centric constituency.
		Saakashvili is pushing to reunite his divided country on the back of his own sense of nationalism, anti-corruption and personal sense of political survival.
	www.inthenationalinterest.com /Articles/Vol3Issue32/Vol3Issue32Lavelle.html (977 words)

	Russia-Georgia Talks (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mikhail Saakashvili replies that Georgian wine is rapidly finding other markets and Russia should drop its case before there is "no more wine left." Both leaders appear to be trying to get in the last word.
		MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI: Firstly, I think that Vladimir Vladimirovich has absolutely correctly just confirmed once more Georgia’s territorial integrity because if you walk from Sochi you end up in Abkhazia, and Abkhazia is Georgia, just in case anyone had any doubts about the geography of the matter.
		MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI: But they’ll have to hurry because all our wine will be gone and there will be nothing left.
	www.sras.org /7036/news2.phtml?m=657 (3696 words)

	Mikhail Saakashvili and the Menace that Shall Remain Nameless - Kommersant Moscow
		Saakashvili leaves the room immediately after finishing his speech and does not participate in any parliamentary discussion, claiming that every president in every other country in the world does the same.
		Mikhail Saakashvili did not seem to notice, or at least did not comment on their absence.
		Saakashvili would like to involve the US and Europe more and accordingly decrease the participation of the force that has dominated the effort thus far.
	www.kommersant.com /p750396/Georgia,_Mikhail_Saakashvili,_NATO,_Russia (1032 words)

	New Georgia leader targets Shevardnadze - World News - MSNBC.com
		Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Mikhail Saakashvili, apparent winner of the presidential elections, during an interview in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.
		Mikhail Saakashvili, leader of the wave of November protests that drove out Shevardnadze, won an apparent landslide victory in presidential elections Sunday, six weeks after Shevardnadze stepped down.
		On Abkhazia, Saakashvili said he would seek peaceful dialogue, but he demanded that the ethnic Georgians who fled the province in the war — an estimated 60 percent of Abkhazia’s residents — be returned to their homes.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3878653 (788 words)

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