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TBILISI, April 4 (RIA Novosti) - Georgy Zhvania, brother to the late Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, doubts the credibility of the conclusions made by the investigator team looking into the circumstances of his tragic death two months ago, the Novosti Gruzia news agency reports. The premier is believed to have died of CO poisoning while staying with a friend. The friend, Raul Yusupov, died in the accident, as well. He had been deputy presidential envoy to the Georgian province of Kvemo. Georgy became doubtful of the investigators' objectivity as he found out that no fingerprints had been discovered in...

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is sending a team of experts to look into last week's death of Georgia's premier and a car bombing that killed three policemen days earlier, the US ambassador said. The Thursday death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, which officials say appears to have come from carbon-monoxide poisoning, and the car-bombing in Gori two days earlier left many Georgians feeling unsettled and some suggested there may have been a link between the events. Zhvania was leading efforts to work out a negotiated settlement on South Ossetia, a region that has been de-facto independent since the...

Friday 4th February, 2005 Russia denies killing Georgia's premier Big News Network.com Friday 4th February, 2005 (UPI) Russia's foreign minister Thursday strongly denied a claim his country was behind the death of Georgia's prime minister. Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania died Thursday and a member of Georgia's parliament claimed Russia was involved, Interfax reported. Let us leave politically motivated conclusions on the conscience of those who are making them, Lavrov told a news conference in response to a Georgian official's claim that a terrorist attack in Gori, Georgia, Tuesday and Zhvania's death Thursday were related and Moscow was behind them. Such...

TBILISI, Feb 4 (AFP) - An aide to Georgian prime minister Zurab Zhvania, who died apparently after breathing toxic fumes leaked by a faulty heater, committed suicide late Friday, an interior ministry spokesman said. The aide, 32-year-old Georgi Khelashvili, shot himself with a gun in his Tbilisi apartment, the spokesman said. Khelashvili was a member of Zhavania`s staff, working with the pardons commission, the Mze television channel reported. It was not yet clear whether Khelashvili`s suicide was linked to Zhvania`s death. Zhvania, Georgia`s widely respected prime minister seen as the driving force behind market-oriented economic reform in the restive...

Friday, 04 February 2005 Georgia: Zhvania's Death Likely To Affect Balance Of Forces In Government By Jean-Christophe Peuch Zurab Zhvania, the Georgian prime minister who died yesterday in an apparent gas poisoning accident, was generally viewed as a stabilizing element in the youthful team that took the reins of power 15 months ago. Some analysts believe his sudden death is likely to alter the balance of forces in the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili in favor of its more radical elements. But would that also affect Georgia’s policy toward its separatist republics? Prague, 4 February 2005 (RFE/RL) -- In the...

Georgia PM Death Confirmed from Gas Poisoning Fri Feb 4, 2005 10:17 AM ET TBILISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania's death was, as initially thought, caused by carbon monoxide poisoning, a justice ministry expert said Friday after an autopsy. The report appeared to confirm that Zhvania, 41, who was found dead in a Tbilisi apartment together with a friend, had died accidentally from fumes from a faulty gas heater. "The cause of death is intoxication from carbon monoxide," the expert, Levan Samkharauli, told reporters. There was no external damage to the body, he added. Zhvania was the...

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who helped lead Georgia's revolution that toppled the corruption-tainted regime of Eduard Shevardnadze, died early Thursday in a friend's apartment from what officials claimed was an accidental gas leak from a heater. Georgia's interior minister said there was no reason to suspect foul play, but a lawmaker reportedly pointed the finger at ``outside forces.'' His remarks were aimed at Russia, which has ties with Georgia's separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and prompted a terse response from Moscow. The lawmaker, Alexander Shalamberidze, noted that the death of Zhvania, 41, came days...

President takes over in Georgia Mr Zhvania played a prominent role in the Rose Revolution Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has said he is taking charge of the government following the death of his prime minister on Thursday. Zurab Zhvania, 41, was found dead in an apartment in Tbilisi, apparently poisoned by gas from a faulty heater. Officials say security guards found his body after breaking into a flat owned by friends early on Thursday. Mr Saakashvili told a crowd in Tbilisi that he was "taking responsibility for leading the executive". "I am ordering the government to return to work," he...

Georgia PM Found Dead; President Assumes Functions By Niko Mchedlishvili TBILISI, Georgia (Reuters) - The prime minister of ex-Soviet Georgia was found dead on Thursday in a bizarre gas poisoning that robs the inexperienced president, Mikhail Saakashvili, of a steadying hand to help run his turbulent country. Saakashvili said he was taking over the functions of Zurab Zhvania, one of the few heavyweights in his reformist leadership who will be hard to replace. It was not clear if this was a temporary move or not. Zhvania's bodyguards found the 41-year-old slumped in an armchair near a gas heater at a...

DERNIERE MINUTE: 07h01 - the Prime Minister géorgien was found died in an apartment in Tbilissi Zourab Jvania discovered was died, apparently poisoned with gas, in the apartment of a friend in whom it was, announced the Minister of Interior Department géorgien, Nano Merabihvili.(AFP)