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Missile meant
for radar station, report suggests 
A second international investigation confirmed that the missile
which landed outside Tsitelubani on August 6 was Russian-and may
have been intended for a Georgian radar station five kilometers
away. Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin, meanwhile,
accused Tbilisi of staging both this incident and the March 11
rocket attack in upper Kodori Gorge. (more)
Sony Center
offers delicate truce to Economic Development Ministry
Sony Center representatives told the Ministry of Economic Development
on August 21 they would like to buy a new storefront on Rustaveli
Avenue, but still may contest their eviction from another building
on the central Tbilisi street. (more)
Lomaia: no
chance of an Armenian-language university in Samstke-Javakheti
Minister of Education and Science Kakha Lomaia rejected a Yerevan
proposal to open an Armenian university in Samtskhe-Javakheti,
a Georgian province with a large ethnic Armenian population."Our
citizens, the ethnic Armenians living in Akhalkalaki, Ninitsminda,
and other regions can wholly satisfy their educational needs in
Georgian universities," Lomaia told journalists on August
22. (more)
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Health insurance
vouchers shouldn't be PR tools
Hundreds of thousand of state health insurance vouchers, meant
to help the poor, are sure money for insurance companies-and politicians
are kicking up a fuss over the companies' efforts to get their
hands on them. (more)
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