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	<title>Let Me Tell You... &#187; Georgia</title>
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		<title>Saakashvili to submit to a drug test?</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2010/03/saakashvili-to-submit-to-a-drug-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president of Georgia decided to go along with the proposal by an opposition parliament member Dmitri Lordkipanidze to test all government employees for illegal drugs. Saakashvili said that the test will require a single hair and that he will offer his shortly. In other news, Saakashvili shaved his head bald&#8230; Lordkipanidze&#8217;s suggestion of drug-testing [...]
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		<title>Safety of Luge</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic death of Nodar Kumaritashvili on the luge track in Vancouver is the cause of online discussion about safety of this sport. Many criticize track designers and organizers of the Games for the track&#8217;s perceived lax safety standards. Others wonder if safety is even possible in a sport where one rides a tiny sled [...]
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		<title>War in Georgia: Reviewing EU Findings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you may have heard, the international fact-finding mission (IIFFMCG) organized by the EU to investigate the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia has finally released its final report. As was expected, most of the blame for starting the war went to Georgia. Russia&#8217;s &#8220;fault&#8221;, according to the investigators, for the most part [...]
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		<title>Delusions in Tbilisi</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2009/08/delusions-in-tbilisi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Russian online news service Lenta.ru published a Q&#38;A session with a well-known Georgian political and military analyst Mamuka Areshidze, who is known for his anti-Kremlin attitudes but is also somehow not a particularly big supporter of Georgian El Duce. In other words, Areshidze is supposedly a moderate, a centrist and so his take on [...]
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		<title>Happy Anniversary, Misha</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2009/08/happy-anniversary-misha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tweeter celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Georgian-Russian war by setting it&#8217;s Web servers on fire. (For those of you with long-term memory problem, here is a brief recap of the events.) The Unix gurus at Tweeter&#8217;s datacenter blamed the downtime on unspecified hackers unleashing a DDoS attack. According to some networking experts interviewed by [...]
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		<title>Saakashvili&#8217;s War</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2009/07/saakashvilis-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Entirely in line with his suspected drug abuse problem, Saakashvili is now waging war of words on the Wall Street Journal. In Georgia&#8217;s President Vows Changes (by Andrew Osborn, WSJ 2009-07-20) the following quote appeared: &#8220;He also called the hopes of Georgia joining NATO &#8220;almost dead.&#8221; &#8220;It&#8217;s tragic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It means the Russians fought [...]
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		<title>Costly NATO Ambitions</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2009/04/costly-nato-ambitions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Besieged in his new glass-domed presidential palace in Tbilisi by thousands of protesters demanding his resignation, Mikheil Saakashvili is desperately searching for any opportunity to strengthen his slipping hold on power. The EU, rattled by the brief but eventful 2009 gas war between Russia and Ukraine, is almost just as anxious to help Misha keep [...]
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		<title>Georgian Navy auctions sunken ships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgian media reports that the country&#8217;s Navy auctioned off three of its ships sank by the Russians during the brief war between the two countries in August of last year. The bidding on the lot of three sunken patrol boats still cluttering Poti naval base started at $10. The winner at $61,000 was Gem Aidemir, [...]
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		<title>Tornado in Georgia</title>
		<link>http://www.venik4.com/2009/02/tornado-in-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time in recorded history a tornado touched down in Georgia&#8217;s western coastal region of Megrelia. There were no casualties, but some 120 homes and electric power lines were heavily damaged. Due to its proximity to the Black Sea, Megrelia is known for occasional heavy winds in the winter months. However, this was [...]
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		<title>Russia to reopen airbase in Abkhazia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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