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Georgia calls for ceasefire as Russia Russian troops have taken the capital of the separatist region of South Ossetia this afternoon after a three-day battle.
As routed opposition forces fled the area, the Georgian government called for a ceasefire and claimed it had stopped fighting.
But this afternoon Russian bombers still appeared to be shelling a military airport at Tbilisi.

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Bank of Georgia becomes a shareholder of Belarusky Narodny Bank The Bank of Georgia, Georgia’s leading bank has signed a USD 34.2 million deal to own 70% of shares in Belorusian bank, Belorusky Narodny Bank (BNB). According to the deal, the Bank of Georgia has the option to acquire the remaining 30% equity interest in BNB over the next three years.

As of December 31 2007, BNB had total assets of USD 48.9 million and total equity of U

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Russia tanks 'turned back' at Georgian border Russian tanks attempting to cross into Georgia have been turned back by Georgian forces.

Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Temur Yakobashvili said Russian tanks tried to cross from the separatist province of South Ossetia into Georgia proper, despite a ceasefire offer.

He said the tanks were apparently trying to approach the town of Gori, but did not fire o

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The most wonderful brawl of the year While listening to music, dancing, drinking beer and generally having a good time in pubs on the weekend, certain people often feel that the night isn’t complete without a good brawl (especially if people aren’t hooking up and going home together). Such incidents go hand-in-hand with the lush life. Unfortunately, partying isn’t always fun and games and the Tbilisi Life Chil

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Russias troops have effectively cut the country President Mikhail Saakashvili made the statement an hour after officials claimed Russian troops had captured Gori, about 60 miles west of the capital Tbilisi.

The news agency Interfax cited a Russian Defense Ministry official as denying the reports of the seizure.

But a top official at the Georgian embassy in Moscow, Givi Shugarov, said Russian troops appeared

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Tbilisi’s top (and only) five spots for going to the movies This week’s Top 5 should be of interest to all you movie lovers residing here in the Paris of Transcaucasia. But this article can hardly be called a ‘Top 5’, as there are only five public places in Tbilisi available for watching movies on a big screen. But what Georgia’s cinemas lack in numbers they make up for in quality: the five spots available for those of us wh

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Interview with a DJ: Lado, keeping it underground Like many other Georgian underground artists, DJ Lado’s musical chops can be traced to that brief blaze of counterculture glory that was the underground club Berlin, now unfortunately defunkt.

 It was 2003 when Lado Odilavadze started to play techno music there and later he started to produce his own stuff on his own label “Frontâ€�, founded with a