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Georgian officials linked the reported coup attempt to Russia, and said it was intended to topple President Mikael Saakashvili.

President Mikheil Saakashvili's website had to be moved to an American server better able to fight off the attack.

So the failed uprising on Wednesday night, combined with the police's tape of her apparent plotting, is only likely to help Saakashvili.

But this time it's not Mikheil Saakashvili making the same speech that he made over a year ago on this very spot.

He blamed George Bush for letting Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, twist American support into a green light for a war.

Mr Saakashvili says Russia's economic embargo "achieved the opposite of what was intended" , and that Georgia has found new markets.

It had nothing to do with Saakashvili "acing rashly" in the days immediately before the invasion.

Mr Saakashvili decided to act at once, ordering troops into South Ossetia to stop the shelling but not to fight the Russian troops there.

An emotional Saakashvili said he will "never, ever surrender" in the showdown with much-larger Russia.

Mr. Bush says he and Mr. Saakashvili discussed how the dispute can be resolved diplomatically.

"You cannot create jobs by job redistribution, only by job creation, " one of Saakashvili's senior economic advisers says.

On Sunday, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Georgia would not give up those regions.

Georgia's revolutionary past, and its precarious present, offer aspiring Arab democrats more lessons than Mr Saakashvili may care to admit.

Still, he adds, most Georgian leaders understand that it is not in the country's interests to discuss replacing Mr Saakashvili right now.

Saakashvili noted that the friendship between the two peoples goes back to ancient times.

The country staged its first military parade since the 2008 war, and Saakashvili warned of the continuing threat from "outside forces. "

Certainly, Mikhail Saakashvili, the country's president, claimed last week in a speech [PDF] at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.

Saakashvili said his country needed mainly training and had so far received no new weapons from the West.

This time Gigi Ugulava, Tbilisi's mayor and a close ally of Mr Saakashvili, won a second term, with 55% of the vote.

Last November Mr Saakashvili's well-wishers were horrified when he used tear-gas and truncheons against a long-running street protest.

"America was the first one to mention this word, and now the others are following, " said Saakashvili.

Mr Saakashvili is an impetuous nationalist who has lately tarnished his democratic credentials.

Their conversation follows calls Saturday by Mr. Bush to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

In the short term, almost all agree that the Kremlin's intense dislike for Mr. Saakashvili has made his position at home more secure.

He offered the prediction just before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili announced that he had signed a truce agreement with Russia.

Under Saakashvili, the Georgian government has tried to manage its difficult situation by joining NATO.

European Union chief diplomat Javier Solana spoke by telephone with Georgian President Saakashvili and expressed his concern.

Mr. Saakashvili accused Russia of breaching the provisional ceasefire agreement accepted by Russia and Georgia on Tuesday night.

The blogger concludes that "as long as [Saakashvili] is in power, there will be no calm in Georgia and no prospect for democracy. "

The Bush administration, which has forged close ties with the government of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, had a measured response.

It must shore up the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, with financial and other support.

Over in Moscow, the Russian news agency, Interfax, flashed news of the apparent invasion and Saakashvili's demise.

It did its utmost to provoke Mr Saakashvili into a fight.

Sceptics point to the fact that one of the film's co-producers and scriptwriters is an MP for Saakashvili's ruling party.

Having clipped their president's wings, Mr Saakashvili's foes hope to take control of parliament in another ballot later this year.

In 2003 the young, energetic, English-speaking Mr Saakashvili represented a visible change from the old Soviet-style nomenclature.

Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, once promised to hang Mr Saakashvili "by the balls" .

Mr. Bush met in the Oval Office with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili ahead of next month's NATO summit in Romania.

Georgia's president Mikhail Saakashvili has already hinted at a boycott.

Besides, Mr Saakashvili has a plateful of domestic problems that can only get worse under the Russian embargo.

It also wants Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, to stand trial for war crimes.

This was Georgia's first advantage, Mr Saakashvili claimed.

The EU diplomatic team now presents the cease-fire plan to Georgian President Saakashvili in Tbilisi.

But President Mikheil Saakashvili, and Patriarch Ilia II, the 77-year-old head of the Georgian church, have other ideas.

About three years ago, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili acted rashly and triggered a war with Russia.

The streets of Tbilisi, it is true, have seen fearful moments since November when Mr Saakashvili made his over-hasty crackdown.

Saakashvili said Georgia and Russia tried various methods of direct dialogue.

A name like that, says Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili, should open doors.

Both he and Mr Saakashvili note that revolutions can take people by surprise.

After lunch with Mr. Saakashvili, Mr. Cheney toured a U. S. C-17 military cargo plane at Tbilisi's military airport.

Today nobody in Washington would shake Saakashvili's hand.

The Georgian President Mikhell Saakashvili says he doesn't believe Russia will keep its promise to withdraw troops by Friday.

Even those who bemoan Mr Saakashvili's flaws still care about the country he leads.

But Mr Saakashvili's rebuilding of Bagrati is a new, head-on challenge to UNESCO's ideas.

But the government's job-approval rating is higher than Mr Saakashvili's popularity.

President Mikheil Saakashvili's political rivals say he will have a lot of explaining to do if and when the crisis subsides.

She says the vice-president told President Saakashvili that Russian aggression can not go unanswered.

Last year's war has cut the ground from under President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia.

Human rights groups have criticized Saakashvili's approach to media freedom