Georgian leader sworn in, wants better Russian ties
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Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili pledged at his inauguration on Sunday to mend Georgia's tattered relationship with Russia after he narrowly won an election which his opponents say was rigged.
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Chechnya has inaugurated its latest pro-Moscow leader, Alu Alkhanov, in a ceremony kept secret to all but a few due to heightened security concerns.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is likely to win a new term in a snap election on January 5, but the vote will have to be squeaky clean if he is to regain his tattered reputation as a champion of democracy.
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Nearly five months after his predecessor was assassinated, Maj. Gen. Alu Alkhanov was sworn in Tuesday as Chechnya's president in a heavily guarded ceremony seen as another step in the Kremlin's strategy to undermine rebels in this war-ravaged region.
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The delegation of the Parliament of Georgia, headed by Nino Burjanadze, the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, left for Romania with the official visit.
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Newly sworn-in Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is spending his first full day in office in Moscow in a bid to smooth ruffled relations with the Kremlin.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as Ukraine's new president on Sunday, ending weeks of turmoil and setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to edge closer to Europe while upholding traditional links with Russia.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in  as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of political  turmoil and setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to move  out of imperial leader Russia's sphere of influence.
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TBILISI, Georgia President Mikhail Saakashvili said his forces seized strategic heights after fighting in the rebel South Ossetia region Thursday and promised more such victories to fulfill a pledge to reunite his country.
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The new president of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, is due to be sworn in amid high security in the capital, Grozny.
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President Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili agreed Thursday that democracies in the former Soviet republics need to be bolstered.
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GROZNY, Russia  - Chechnya's pro-Kremlin leader  was sworn in as president of the turbulent Russian region  Tuesday and acknowledged immediately he was a prime target for  assassination by separatists.
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Chechnya's new president was to be sworn in on Tuesday, nearly five months after its previous leader was assassinated and a day after it was announced the republic would hold parliamentary elections in the spring.
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili offers a broad autonomy to the breakaway republic of South Ossetia.
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Liberal Viktor Yushchenko will be sworn in as Ukraine's new president Sunday, ending weeks of political turmoil and setting the stage for the ex-Soviet state to move out of imperial leader Russia's sphere of influence.
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The Georgian governmental delegation, head by Zurab Zhvania, the Prime Minister of Georgia, today leaves for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland with the three-day working visit.
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TBILISI -- The commander of Russian military forces in Georgia said yesterday his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to use lethal force to defend their bases, amid mounting tensions over the arrest of four Russian military officers accused of spying. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, denounced the Georgian authorities' arrests as ``state terrorism" and blamed unidentified ...