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	Mikheil Saakashvili - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikheil Saakashvili (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი) (born December 21, 1967) is a Georgian politician and the current President of Georgia.
		Mikheil Saakashvili was born in Tbilisi, the capital of the then-Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia to a Georgian intelligentsia family.
		In January 2000, Saakashvili was appointed Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikheil_Saakashvili (1830 words)

	Rose Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mikheil Saakashvili and his supporters marched on the parliament carrying roses as a symbol of nonviolence
		Mikheil Saakashvilli claimed that he had won the elections (a claim supported by independent exit polls), and urged Georgians to demonstrate against Shevardnadze's government and engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against the authorities.
		In the January 4, 2004 presidential election Mikheil Saakashvili won an overwhelming victory and was inaugurated as the new President of Georgia on January 25.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rose_Revolution (1309 words)

	Mikheil Saakashvili 1994
		Mikheil Saakashvili '94 LL.M. On November 22, 2003, Mikheil Saakashvili, wielding the prickly red flower that would come to represent the "Rose Revolution" of the Republic of Georgia, stormed the parliament building calling for the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Saakashvili have suggested his presidency might be impaired by inexperience and his youth, they may be underestimating a president audacious enough to raise the EU flag over the Georgian Parliament - ahead of actual admission to the union.
		Saakashvili was soon mounting daily protests - drawing tens of thousands of discontented supporters - against parliamentary elections marred by fraudulent practices.
	www.law.columbia.edu /intl/intl_students/m_saakashvili (473 words)

	Sudden Fame
		Saakashvili's plump, open, 36-year-old face was little-known outside Georgia until that late November Saturday (22 November) when television cameras recorded him leading his followers on a charge into parliament.
		As Saakashvili recounts it, he soon became sickened by the cronyism and corruption he found in the Shevardnadze government, a political and administrative rot that led to the "Revolution of the Roses" three years later.
		Saakashvili orchestrated the revolution deftly, urging the protesters to avoid violence and bloodshed, choosing a red rose as a symbol.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /new_page_46.htm (856 words)

	FOR MEDIA: GEORGIA & USA VISIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mikheil Saakashvili resigned his seat in Parliament to be eligible to run locally for Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo).
		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.
		It was Mikheil Saakashvili who made the historic decision that the protestors should enter the Parliament itself to stop the session.
	www.georgiawelcomesusa.com /biography.htm (1773 words)

	BBC NEWS \| 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 /2/hi/europe/3231852.stm (528 words)

	Georgia Saakashvili Strikes Bargain in Adzharia
		A smiling Saakashvili emerged from 3 1/2 hours of talks with Adzharian leader Aslan Abashidze at his residence in Batumi, the region's capital, claiming success in resolving a standoff that earlier in the week had threatened to spill over into civil war.
		Saakashvili agreed to lift the blockade of Adzharia, imposed on Monday, at midnight Thursday, in return for a pledge from Abashidze to give Tbilisi a bigger say in the region's affairs and to guarantee fair parliamentary elections in the republic.
		Saakashvili said that Abashidze had also agreed to review cases of alleged political prisoners and to remove armed checkpoints within Adzharia and between Adzharia and the rest of Georgia.
	www.templetonthorp.com /de/news565 (284 words)

	Georgia (country) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		[1] The revolution was led by Mikheil Saakashvili, Zurab Zhvania and Nino Burjanadze, former members and leaders of Shavarnadze's ruling party.
		Mikheil Saakashvili was elected as President of Georgia in 2004.
		On January 4, 2004 Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the National Movement - Democrats (NMD) (former United National Movement) won the country's presidential election and was inaugurated on January 25.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georgia_(country) (6088 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - “Diversity Is Our Strength” — Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili
		Saakashvili said that "formally" 3,000 Russians are stationed at the base, though he believed the real figure was much lower.
		To respond to the community’s demands, Saakashvili said he is promoting an "incentives-based approach," that includes transferring some public services, such as the passport department, away from the regional seat at Akhaltsikhe to Akhalkalaki (a demand made by community leaders), and giving local government responsibility for budget management.
		Saakashvili conceded that the region is lacking in Georgian language specialists because few Georgians or Georgian-speaking and trained language teachers reside in or near Ninotsminda or Akhalkalaki.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav042205.shtml (1383 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Saakashvili Addressed the Nation, Parliament (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Saakashvili did not specify, though, whether these elections should be direct or whether the mayors should be elected by members of elected councils.
		President Saakashvili also said that the number of parliamentarians should be reduced from the current 235 to 150, as it was decided by the national referendum carried in November, 2003.
		Saakashvili said he is ready to travel to Moscow and again extend a hand of friendship, “which has been hanging [in the air] for one year,” to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=12346 (1021 words)

	Georgia Saakashvili Sworn In as New President
		Mikheil Saakashvili, a fiery 36-year-old U.S.-educated lawyer and anti-corruption crusader, was inaugurated Sunday as Georgia's new president, taking the helm amid high hopes that he can bring prosperity to the country.
		Saakashvili, his hand on Georgia's constitution, took the presidential oath in front of the parliament building where two months ago he led protesters who evicted longtime former President Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Saakashvili said that one of the new leadership's key tasks is to "uproot corruption" that has kept the economy mired in its post-Soviet morass.
	www.templetonthorp.com /pl/news513 (862 words)

	News: Caucasus (Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia), Georgia: Saakashvili: UN must change focus on conflict resolution
		Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on September 15 that the UN "must change" and the issue of conflict resolution must become a higher priority for the United Nations.
		President Saakashvili was speaking while addressing a high-level plenary meeting of the 60th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday.
		Saakashvili said that democracy "is on the rise in our region… but it needs security and stability in order to be permanent.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6GAHRR?OpenDocument (480 words)

	Wikinfo \| Mikhail Saakashvili (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mikhail Saakashvili (Georgian: მიხეილ სააკაშვილი) (born December 21, 1967), Georgian jurist and politician, is the President of Georgia.
		Saakashvili's given name is also used in the Georgian form Mikheil (he is commonly known as "Misha").
		After an increasingly tense two weeks of demonstrations, Shevardnadze bowed to the inevitable and resigned as President on November 23, to be replaced on an interim basis by parliamentary speaker Nino Burjanadze.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Mikhail_Saakashvili (1097 words)

	President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili \| Biography, Speeches, Breifings, Articles
		Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili leveraged his widespread support to rid his country of a long-standing problem.
		Mikhail Saakashvili has won the majority of votes in presidential elections in Georgia - which totals to 96% so far..
		Mikheil Saakashvili at the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
	www.saakashvili.com (223 words)

	Saakashvili Offers Regional Autonomy
		President Mikheil Saakashvili addressing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
		STRASBOURG, France -- Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Wednesday that an offer of regional autonomy to the breakaway province of South Ossetia could be also extended to the rebel region of Abkhazia.
		Saakashvili, speaking at the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, said he would present proposals for setting up a local government and police force in South Ossetia to resolve a standoff between his government and separatists there.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/01/27/016.html (408 words)

	Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
		Mikheil Saakashvili honored with a Muskie Alumni Leadership Award by Rick Ruth, Director of Policy Evaluation, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, at the 10-Year Anniversary of the Muskie Program in June 2002.
		ECA program alumnus Mikheil Saakashvili became the second president of the Republic of Georgia on January 4, 2004, in a landslide election.
		ECA honored Saakashvili with the Muskie Alumni Leadership Award in 2002 as part of the ten year anniversary of the program.
	exchanges.state.gov /news/2004/jan8.htm (530 words)

	Russia Blog: Thousands Protest Saakashvili in Georgia
		The opposition claims that the Georgian economy is suffering from Saakashvili’s foreign policy, which they contend has raised the prices for energy and other goods by needlessly antagonizing Russia.
		Georgia's new President Mikheil Saakashvili was inaugurated on January 25, 2004, and made promises to tackle Georgia's internal corruption and its endemic poverty.
		Supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili claimed an overwhelming victory in Georgia’s March 28 parliamentary election - a vote that international observers viewed as the fairest in the country’s post-Soviet history.
	www.russiablog.org /2006/03/thousands_protest_saakashvili.html (1467 words)

	Online Magazine - Civil Georgia
		The decision was widely anticipated, as Mikheil Saakashvili was a driving force of the three-week long street protests demanding Shevardnadze’s resignation.
		Mikheil Saakashvili also said that his National Movement party and United Democrats party, led by Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania, will form a joint election bloc to run for the parliamentary elections, the date of which is not scheduled yet.
		U.S.-educated, 35-year-old lawyer Mikheil Saakashvili first came in the politics in 1995, when he was elected in the Parliament as a member of the Shevardnadze’s party Citizens’ Union of Georgia.
	www.civil.ge /eng/article_elections.php?id=5673 (668 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Doubts Shadow Saakashvili’s Ajaria Election Victory
		Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has triumphed in the June 20 election for Ajaria’s local parliament, but one Saakashvili supporter has warned that irregularities in the poll could lead to his party breaking with the president’s ruling National Movement bloc.
		According to preliminary official figures, the Mikheil Saakashvili-Victorious Ajaria bloc won 75 percent of the 125,000 votes cast in the ballot, Ajarian Supreme Election Commission (SEC) Chairman Irakly Pagava told reporters in Batumi on Monday, Interfax reported.
		A campaign by Koba Davitashvili, a member of parliament and former ally of Saakashvili, to secure Ajarian voters’ signatures for a petition to abolish Ajaria’s autonomous status was denounced by SEC Chairman Irakly Pagava as "illegal," the Civil Georgia site reported.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav062104.shtml (1162 words)

	Russia Threatens Democracy, Tries to Undermine Georgian Government — Saakashvili - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mikheil Saakashvili, president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, warned yesterday that Russia is trying to undermine his government in hopes of intimidating democracy activists from rising up against corrupt regimes like the one he toppled three years ago, The Washington Post reports.
		Saakashvili, an American-trained lawyer who led the Rose Revolution in Georgia and inspired two other “color revolutions” in the region, complained that Moscow has employed hard-nosed tactics aimed at starving his tiny mountain nation economically and breaking it up physically.
		Saakashvili wrapped up a visit to Washington highlighted by two hours of meetings at the White House, including an Oval Office session with President Bush, who publicly called the Georgian “my friend” and promised to “make the path a little smoother for Georgia” to join NATO over Russian objections.
	feeds.russianews.net /?rid=e798dafc9ae8a3bd&cat=723971d98160d438&f=1 (943 words)

	Online Magazine - Civil Georgia
		The preliminary results of the exit polls suggest that frontrunner presidential candidate Mikheil Saakashvili received 85,8% of votes in Sunday’s snap presidential elections.
		Mikheil Saakashvili thanked his supporters, who where gathered in the Philharmonic Hall, and Georgia’s each citizen.
		Mikheil Saakashvili will hold a press conference today where he will outline details of his plans after taking over the President’s office.
	www.civil.ge /eng/article_elections.php?id=5940 (678 words)

	GW News Center
		Mikheil Saakashvili was elected as president of Georgia on January 4, 2004, with 96 percent of the vote.
		A former student at the GW Law School, Saakashvili served as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Issues, Rule of Law and Administrative Reform, chairman of the Majority Fraction of the Georgian Parliament and later as justice minister of Georgia.
		Established in 1988, The George Washington University's President's Medal is the highest honor awarded by the president of the University.
	www.gwu.edu /~media/pressrelease.cfm?ann_id=10782 (229 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Saakashvili Gives ‘Last Chance’ to Abashidze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Mikheil Saakashvili’s ultimatum to Aslan Abashidze follows explosion of two key bridges in Adjara, linking troubled region with the rest of Georgia, by the local authorities on May 2 - an act described by the Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze as a self-defense against anticipated incursion of the Georgian armed forces.
		Mikheil Saakashvili said that Abashidze should disband his illegal armed groups and ensure protection of human rights and Georgia’s constitution in the region.
		But President Saakashvili dismissed Adjarian leadership’s claims as “ridiculous.” He said that explosion of bridges aimed at stopping outflow of Adjarians from the region.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=8931 (693 words)

	The Ultimate Georgia (country) Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		Georgians were expelled from Tskhinvali as well, and many Ossetian families were forced to abandon their homes in the Borjomi region and move to Russia.
		Reversing the effects of ethnic cleansing and returning refugees to their home places was one of the main pre-election promises of Saakashvili's government.
		On January 4, 2004 Mikhail Saakashvili, leader of the National Movement - Democrats (NMD) (former United National Movement) won the country's presidential election and was inaugurated on January 25.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Georgia_(country) (2001 words)

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		Saakashvili has since delegated the business of running Georgia's shattered economy to Zhvania, who has been made prime minister with enhanced powers, and to another widely welcomed appointee, former Russia-based oligarch Kakha Bendukidze, who is the new economics minister.
		"So far Saakashvili does two things," Tinatin Khidasheli of the Georgian Young Lawyers Association commented in April "He travels and gives press conferences." Georgia matters to the West because of its strategic setting, between Russia and the Middle East and because it is soon to be host two Caspian Sea energy pipelines.
		Saakashvili has risked and won in two very difficult situations, in the standoff over the Georgian parliament last November and in the autonomous republic of Ajaria in May. On both occasions he prevailed and no blood was spilled.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /absoluten/showarticle.php?articleID=595 (1128 words)

	President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili \| Biography, Speeches, Breifings, Articles
		The President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili met with
		Mikheil Saakashvili was born on December 21, 1967 in Tbilisi.
		In 1997 the Georgian Mass Media and NGOs recognized Mikheil Saakashvili as the Man of the Year.
	www.saakashvili.com /biography.html (251 words)

	26 September 2001 Central Asia - Caucasus Analyst (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shevardnadze's resignation was followed by the resignation of the high-profile leader of the reformist camp, Minister of Justice Mikheil Saakashvili.
		Saakashvili indicated he did not intend to cooperate with the ministers of law-enforcement agencies he had personally accused of corruption.
		Unlike Zhvania, Saakashvili has been more active, suggesting various legislative reforms, all of which have met harsh resistance from other cabinet members.
	www.cornellcaspian.com /analyst/010926_H2.htm (1203 words)

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