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GEORGIAN PRESIDENTIAL-ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL ARRESTED ON ESPIONAGE CHARGES
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Presidential-administration department head Simon Kilidze has been arrested on charges of treason and espionage for an unnamed foreign state, Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili told journalists in Tbilisi on March 28. Merabishvili said that Kilidze began passing secret information to a foreign intelligence service in 2004 and has been paid at least $20,000 for doing so. (Caucasus Press).KYRGYZSTAN TO RECEIVE $105 MILLION FROM DONORS IN 2006
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Kyrgyz Finance Minister Aklybek Japarov announced on March 27 that international financial institutions will loan Kyrgyzstan $105 million in 2006, Kabar reported. The announcement came after two weeks of talks with representatives of the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank, and Germany\'s KfW Entwicklungsbank (KfW Development Bank). Some 40 percent of the funds will go to the Agricultural Water Use and Industry Ministry, 20 percent to the Transportation and Communications Ministry, and 13 percent to the Health Ministry, with the remainder distributed to other social projects.GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SAYS PRISON RIOT INTENDED TO DESTABILIZE COUNTRY
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Mikheil Saakashvili told a National Security Council session on March 27 that the riot and attempted mass jail break at a Tbilisi prison earlier that day was part of a bid by unspecified criminal elements to destabilize the situation in Georgia. He said the authorities \"will not talk with bandits\" and vowed \"zero tolerance\" towards criminals. Saakashvili further praised the response of police and security forces deployed to suppress the riot, in which the Georgian authorities have confirmed that seven people died.SEVEN INMATES KILLED IN PRISON MUTINY IN TBILISI - RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
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Unofficial reports claim seven inmates were killed and 19 injured in an operation to quell unrest at Tbilisi Prison No. 5 early on Monday, Yelena Tevdoradze, chairman of the parliamentary human rights committee, told the press. Blame for the mutiny and the premeditated murder of inmates lies with the Interior Ministry and Penitentiary Department, leader of the Right Opposition Party David Gamikrelidze told a news conference on Monday.Visit also
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