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06.05.2009, 08:04
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A mutiny in a Georgian tank battalion ended after negotiations with President Saakashvili. The military revolted following the Interior Ministry’s allegation of planned coup d’etat.
05.05.2009, 16:09
Recent events in Georgia look like a political theatre,but not a coup, says Andrey Klimov, head of the State Duma committee on European co-operation.
29.07.2010, 17:07
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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has called on military top brass to build “total defense” and accused Russia of planning to “overthrow Georgian democracy.”
24.12.2009, 09:17
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US Republican Senator Richard Lugar has urged the US and its European allies to re-arm Georgia after its military infrastructure suffered a blow during last year's war with South Ossetia.
30.09.2009, 12:07
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The Georgian army which took part in the August 2008 conflict in South Ossetia was created, trained and supplied by Americans, says professor and author Stephen Cohen.
17.11.2009, 16:28
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173 is a company. A company of the 23rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade of the Georgian army, that is. And they're off to join the thousands-strong crowd already fighting in Afghanistan.
30.04.2009, 20:42
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The Serbian Cabinet has confirmed that Serbia won’t take part in NATO-led drills in Georgia scheduled for May 6 through June 1.
03.03.2010, 20:53
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The military alliance has announced, it plans to carry out a series of air force exercises over Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from March 17-20.
16.04.2009, 16:09
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Russia calls on NATO to cancel or at least postpone its scheduled military exercises in Georgia.
28.10.2010, 17:52
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has said in an interview that it is "impossible" for US-led coalition forces to secure victory in Afghanistan.
Published: 05 May, 2009, 17:32
Saakashvili badly needed arguments both to convince NATO that he is still threatened by Moscow, and to repress his opposition, says Kirill Koktysh from the Moscow State University of International Relations.
It is also possible that the so-called coup d'etat was already part of the NATO exercises: set up an "incident," blame it on Russia and start bringing in NATO troops ... plus give Saakashvili yet another opportunity to play his favorite role of a "victim" who ordered last year an artillery ambush that killed scores of Russian peacekeepers in Southern Ossetia, while NATO rushes in to "express its solidarity" with the very same Sakaashvili for doing just that.