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To: Road Walker who wrote (217119)	2/3/2005 4:36:34 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1571447

Its funny how leaders of former soviet replublics keep getting poisoned or killed from the strangest of circumstances. **************************************************************************************************************************** Georgian premier dead in gas leak** TBILISI — Zurab Zhvania, Georgia’s widely-respected prime minister seen as the driving force behind market-oriented economic reform in the restive Caucasus republic, died yesterday, apparently after breathing toxic fumes leaked by a faulty heater, officials said. Zhvania, 41, was found by his bodyguards slumped over a table in an apartment on the outskirts of Tbilisi, Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili told reporters. Other officials said he appeared to have succumbed to inadequately-ventilated carbon monoxide fumes from a heating unit. The body of another local Georgian official, Raul Yusupov, was found on the floor in another room in the apartment, the officials said. There were no signs of foul play and officials quickly quashed suspicions that the deaths could have been anything but accidental. “This was apparently an accident,” Merabishvili said. It “seems clear” that the deaths were caused by inhalation of the toxic fumes, he added. That conclusion was substantiated by other top Georgian officials, but the country’s deputy prosecutor general, Georgy Dzhanashvili, said a criminal investigation had been opened nonetheless as a matter of procedure. An autopsy would be conducted with results anticipated within two weeks. News of his death sent shock waves through Georgia and President Mikhail Saakashvili, acting in line with the constitution, dismissed the entire Zhvania government, though its members were to remain in place on what is technically an interim basis pending confirmation of a new government. Saakashvili announced that he would take over Zhvania’s duties until a new government was installed. “As president of Georgia, I assume leadership of the executive branch and thereby direct all ministers to return to their posts and continue working,” Saakashvili said on Georgian television. Under the constitution, the president has seven days to choose a new prime minister. Saakashvili did not however offer further explanation of what precisely his role with respect to the government would be and for how long it would last. — AFP timesofoman.com