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The "Rose Revolution" of 2003 finally allowed Georgia to turn the page on the Soviet era: the country's politics personified by one man. Since then, President Mikhail Saakashvili has won two elections and survived a war he started with Russia over Georgia's breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Strategically important on the post-Cold War chessboard, Georgia's goals to join the EU and NATO have amplified friction with Moscow. ... http://www.euronews.net/
