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	Zurab Zhvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zurab Zhvania (Georgian: ზურაბ ჟვანია) (December 9, 1963–February 3, 2005) was a prominent Georgian politician of Armenian origin and former Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.
		Zhvania himself became a minister in the transitional government prior to fresh presidential elections held on January 4, 2004, which were won by Saakashvili.
		Zhvania died early in the morning of February 3, 2005 of carbon monoxide poisoning, apparently due to an inadequately ventilated gas heater.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zurab_Zhvania (637 words)

	Encyclopedia: Zurab Zhvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zurab Zhvania was born in Tbilisi, Georgia on December 9, 1963.
		Zhvania organized and implemented a laboratory where all research was conducted and carried out by the student’s themselves.
		Zhvania became an important player in the Georgian Parliament and was soon elected the Co-Secretary of the European Greens.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zurab-Zhvania (427 words)

	Zurab Noghaideli - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zurab Noghaideli (Georgian: ზურაბ ნოღაიდელი) (born October 22, 1964) is the current Prime Minister of Georgia.
		Born in the coastal town of Kobuleti in the southwestern region of Ajaria, Noghaideli graduated from the Moscow State University with a diploma in Physics in 1987.
		During these years, he was considered a member of a political team of young reformists headed by Zurab Zhvania and Mikheil Saakashvili and proved to be quite an effective minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zurab_Nogaideli (484 words)

	The Casper Star-Tribune: Printable Version
		Zurab Zhvania, 41, was found dead before dawn Thursday at the apartment of a friend, who also died; officials say both succumbed to carbon-monoxide poisoning from a poorly ventilated gas space heater.
		Zhvania, along with Saakashvili, was a key figure in Georgia's "Rose Revolution" of November 2003 -- three weeks of mass protests that followed a fraud-infested election and forced longtime President Eduard Shevardnadze to step down.
		Zhvania was highly regarded for his commitment to reform, his work to negotiate settlements of tensions over two separatist regions and for his moderate temperament, seen as a critical balance to the stirring though often provocative statements of Saakashvili.
	www.casperstartribune.net /articles/2005/02/09/news/world/644b2a0ddefc788d87256fa1000d2bc5.prt (612 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Zurab Zhvania
		According to initial reports, the cause of his death was carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas leak at the flat of his friend Zurab Usupov, a regional deputy governor, whom he was visiting in the early hours of the morning.
		Zhvania played a prominent role in the Rose Revolution of November 2003, which swept aside Georgian president and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze, and paved the way for Mikhail Saakashvili's election in January 2004.
		Zhvania was born in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
	www.guardian.co.uk /georgia/story/0,14065,1405705,00.html (589 words)

	Guardian \| Zurab Zhvania
		One of Saakashvili's first acts was to appoint Zhvania, a former rival for the leadership of the opposition movement, as his premier.
		Like Saakashvili, Zhvania was once a supporter of Shevardnadze, and had been active in supporting the latter's return to Tbilisi in 1992 to succeed the first president of post-Soviet Georgia, rightwing nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia.
		Zhvania was generally deemed the more moderate of the two, favouring a consensus-based approach.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5119298-103684,00.html (560 words)

	Sobaka : I Am Georgia and My Prime Minister is Dead: The Murder/Death of Zurab Zhvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania and Burdjanadze embraced Misha Saakashvili, legitimately overthrew the government and replaced it with theirs, to the joy of the vast majority of the population.
		Zhvania was a key player in negotiating resolutions in the Abkhazian and South Ossetian conflicts.
		Zurab Zhvania and Raul Usupov are dead, mourned by their families and countrymen.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2005/zhvania.html (1609 words)

	USATODAY.com - Georgian leaders urge calm after death of PM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania was found dead early Thursday in a friend's apartment, apparently the victim of carbon monoxide poisoning from a poorly installed gas heater.
		Zhvania was one of the leaders of the 2003 "Rose Revolution" protests that propelled President Mikhail Saakashvili to power and brought down his predecessor, Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Zhvania earned deep respect and affection and was seen as a moderating balance to the sometimes-incendiary boldness of Saakashvili, who was elected president in 2004.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-04-georgia_x.htm (811 words)

	ABC News: Apparent Gas Leak Kills Georgian Premier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was killed early Thursday by an apparent gas leak, the interior minister said.Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said in a live broadcast on Rustavi-2 television that Zhvania had been at a friend's house when the accident occurred.
		Zhvania was considered a moderate to counterbalance the more impetuous president, and he was one of the key government figures trying to negotiate settlements with Georgia's separatist regions.
		Zhvania was born in the capital Tbilisi on Dec. 9, 1963.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=467072 (572 words)

	Georgia Georgian Prime Minister Dies
		Zurab Zhvania, who died at the age of 41 in the early hours of 3 February, reportedly of gas poisoning, was one of Georgia's most urbane, intelligent, astute and experienced politicians.
		In July 1998, Zhvania warned that corruption and the government's failure to implement systemic reform had brought the country to "the edge of the abyss." "The fact that laws are not implemented has generated a lack of popular trust in the leadership," he told a meeting of Georgia's NGOs.
		Zhvania threatened to resign and take on the role of "constructive opposition" within parliament unless radical measures were adopted to kick start reform.
	www.templetonthorp.com /cz/news861 (743 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Georgia: Zurab Zhvania is killed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania, 41, who played a prominent role in the ouster of former Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze after allegedly fraudulent elections in November 2003, was at his friend's house when the accident occurred.
		Zhvania's host, Raul Usupov, deputy governor of Georgia's Kremo-Kartli region, was also killed, tells CBC News.
		Zhvania's bodyguard, worried by the prime minister's failure to answer his telephone, broke into the apartment at 5 a.m.
	english.pravda.ru /main/2005/02/03/58073_.html (268 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Zurab Zhvania: Architect of revolution
		Zhvania, who went on to become prime minister in the wake of the revolution, was found dead at the home of a friend on 3 February 2005, the apparent victim of gas poisoning.
		Zhvania became active in the former Soviet republic's politics in the early 1990s as an environmental activist.
		Zhvania refused because the deal would have left Mr Shevardnadze in control of the "power ministries" - those with armed forces at their disposal.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4232193.stm (653 words)

	USATODAY.com - Georgian prime minister dies of apparent gas leak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania, considered a moderate influence in the government of this former Soviet republic, had been trying to negotiate settlements with the separatist regions.
		Zhvania was in a chair; Usupov's body was found in the kitchen.
		Zhvania was a key ally of President Mikhail Saakashvili in leading the November 2003 protests against election fraud that came to be known as the "Rose Revolution." The demonstrations drove Shevardnadze to resign.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-02-03-georgian-pm_x.htm (873 words)

	[ RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY ]
		It was in his capacity as a young and eloquent parliament deputy that Zhvania first came to the notice of then parliament chairman Eduard Shevardnadze, who catapulted Zhvania to the chairmanship of the Union of Citizens of Georgia (SMK), the political party Shevardnadze created as his personal powerbase in 1993.
		Zhvania threatened to resign and take on the role of "constructive opposition" within parliament unless radical measures were adopted to kickstart reform.
		Zhvania's death will be felt all the more acutely in that there is no figure of comparable political stature, authority, and ability in Georgia to replace him.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2005/02/mil-050203-rferl02.htm (1066 words)

	Wikinfo \| Zurab Zhvania by Levan Urushadze
		Zurab B. Zhvania (born on December 9, 1963, in Tbilisi), Georgian politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Georgia.
		However, Zhvania fell out with Shevardnadze over a corruption scandal and resigned as speaker of the Parliament on November 1, 2001.
		On February 18, 2004 Zurab Zhvania was appointed as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Georgia.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Zurab_Zhvania (414 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Georgian prime minister dead at 41 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of Zhvania’s bodyguards broke in through a window after the prime minister failed to answer his cell phone or open the front door and found Zhvania laying dead in an armchair and his friend, Raul Usupov, the deputy governor of the Kvemo Kartli region in Eastern Georgia, laying dead in the kitchen.
		As Zurab Zhvania was not responding to his mobile phone and no one was opening the door for a long period, his bodyguard broke through the window at approximately 4:30 am [local time].
		Zhvania briefly served as a state minister after the revolution before assuming the newly created post of prime minister on 18 February 2004 - a position he held until his tragic death on Thursday morning.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=10705 (472 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zurab Zhvania was a dedicated reformer whose visionary leadership inspired a new generation of political leaders in the Republic of Georgia.
		Zurab Zhvania formed the United Democrats, a party that blossomed into one of the major forces that brought about the Rose Revolution in the Republic of Georgia in November 2003.
		Zurab Zhvania was named Prime Minister of the Republic of Georgia in November 2003, and led governmental efforts to develop and implement far-reaching economic, judicial, military, and social reforms thereby turning the promise of the Rose Revolution into real results that have dramatically improved life in the Republic of Georgia.
	www.gop.gov /Committeecentral/bills/hres108.asp (444 words)

	EurasiaNet Q & A - Zurab Zhvania Asserts Georgia Faces "Criminalization" of Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania, a leading political rival of Shevardnadze’s, has maintained that the judicial system’s decisions were politically motivated.
		Zhvania: The resignation of [Shevardnadze] was considered by my friends and I as being his response to the open letter that I published on the 28th of August.
		Zhvania: All of a sudden, when we found ourselves in such a deadlock, with actually no chance to run for election, we were approached by a few small political groups.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/qanda/articles/eav051702.shtml (1493 words)

	Georgia's Prime Minister Killed by Gas
		Zurab Zhvania was at a friend's home when he died.
		Mr Zhvania, 41, was part of the opposition to the former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze.
		Zurab's death is a great blow to Georgia and to me personally," he said.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/37/8749/printer (410 words)

	Georgian prime minister mysteriously dies - PRAVDA.Ru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The death of Zurab Zhvania, the prime minister of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, will most likely become the subject of numerous discussions about who gains profit from it and who he was an obstacle to.
		Zhvania was a reformer and ally of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili; he was persona number two in the administration of the republic.
		The body of the apartment owner was found in the kitchen, Zurab Zhvania was found dead in the living room.
	english.pravda.ru /world/20/92/371/14914_zhvania.html (800 words)

	CNN.com - President takes charge in Georgia - Feb 3, 2005
		Zhvania, prime minister since 2004, died Thursday morning in what is believed to have been an accidental poisoning from a natural gas leak.
		Zhvania, 41, was a key leader of the 2003 "Rose Revolution" protests that toppled veteran leader Eduard Shevardnadze and brought the West-leaning Saakashvili into power.
		Zhvania was considered a moderate counterbalance to the more impetuous president, and he was one of the key government figures trying to negotiate settlements with Georgia's separatist regions, according to wire reports.
	www.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/02/03/georgia.death (648 words)

	Zurab Zhvania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania joined the UGC and recruitedother reformists to the party, notably Mikhail Saakashvili.However, Zhvania fell out with Shevardnadze over a corruption scandal and resigned as speaker on November 1, 2001.
		He wasreplaced on an interim basis by Zhvania's successor as parliamentary speaker, Nino Burjanadze.
		Zhvania himself became a minister in the transitional government prior to freshpresidential elections held on January 4, 2004, which were won by Saakashvili.
	www.therfcc.org /zurab-zhvania-84742.html (282 words)

	Georgia: Family Challenges Official Stance On Prime Minister's Death - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		On 3 February, Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead in a Tbilisi apartment along with a friend, 25-year-old Raul Yusupov.
		Zurab Zhvania's widow, Nino Kadagidze, said she shares her brother-in-law's concerns regarding the official probe.
		Goga Zhvania said his assertions are based on a copy of the FBI report he obtained from the Prosecutor-General's Office.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/5/68AE18E9-E88D-4E71-A6C3-A4B2B15F3EFE.html (1308 words)

	BakuTODAY.net - Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Caspian news, links, maps etc.
		Zhvania was regarded as an architect of the Georgian parliamentarianism, as he held the Parliamentary Chairmanship in 1995-2001.
		On November 23, 2003 Zurab Zhvania addressed thousands of protesters outside the Parliament and announced: “It is the revolution of flowers, the Rose Revolution.” As a result the peaceful power transition that took place in Georgian in 2003 was dubbed as the Rose Revolution.
		Zurab Zhvania was buried at the Didube cemetery in Tbilisi, where other prominent Georgian public figures are buried as well.
	www.bakutoday.net /view.php?d=12269 (622 words)

	Per Gahrton, After Zurab Zhvania: Which way Georgia? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first time I met Zurab Zhvania was at a Conference for Green Parliamentarians in Stockholm in 1990.
		Zurab feared violent actions from Abashidse later in the evening; he expected him to try to destroy ballot boxes when it would turn out that he had lost.
		For example, Zhvania was one of very few state leaders outside Russia's circle of closest allies to welcome the outcome of the Duma elections in December 2003 (See Svobodnaja Gruzia Dec 8th, 2003).
	www.transnational.org /forum/meet/2005/Gahrton_Zhvania.html (1486 words)

	Online Magazine - Civil Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead, apparently, by carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning that resulted from the faulty operation of the gas heater, in his friend’s apartment in Tbilisi on early hours of February 3.
		Merabishvili also said that Zurab Zhvania was found dead sitting on the armchair, while his friend died in the kitchen.
		After the Rose Revolution Zurab Zhvania became a State Minister and after February, 2004 constitutional amendments Zhvania was appointed by Saakashvili as the Prime Minister.
	www.civil.ge /eng/article.php?id=8955 (1169 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - Zhvania Buried, Georgia Pledges to Soldier On (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Zhvania died on February 3, from carbon-monoxide poisoning caused by a malfunctioning gas heater in the Tbilisi apartment of an employee of the state chancellery, Raul Usupov.
		Sobbing openly, Zhvania’s wife, Nino, and two of his three children stood to one side, flanked by State Minister for European Integration Giorgi Baramidze, a close Zhvania ally and former defense minister.
		Zhvania "was always the first," Georgian Patriarch Ilya II declared, as Saakashvili nodded agreement.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav020705.shtml (1133 words)

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