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"We expect Abashidze to resign already today. Otherwise the opposition holding mass meetings may become uncontrollable, and then developments may not be in his [Abashidze's] favor," Georgian state minister Georgy Khaindrava said.

Both the terminal and the bridge were mined as early as May 1, the source at the Georgian National Security Council.

The Union of Russian Committees of Soldier's Mothers gives such data.

The Associated Press reported it on May 4 referring to the Moscow-backed government of the republic.

A column of cars with the opposition activists left Tbilisi for Batumi on the night of May 4-5. They want to join participants in the actions taking place in Adjaria with the demand of Aslan Abashidze's resignation.

The situation in Batumi is heated, buses full of adversaries of the Adjarian leader are on their way from other regions of the autonomy and from Tbilisi to Batumi.

A meeting of the Adjarian opposition is continuing in Batumi. Its participants are demanding the resignation of Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze. The opponents of the Adjarian leader from all the districts of the autonomous republic participated in the protest actions all throughout the past night.

"We protest against our being Abashidze's official hostages after the explosions of bridges," action participants said.

"Explosions of bridges by a madman are not called a conflict, though this is a very complicated situation for the population," Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said.

"General Netkachev is in Moscow now," Aslan Abashidze said.

One cache was disclosed near the village of Mesker-Yurt in the Shali district. Besides, mortar shells concealed in a cleft and masked with branches were found near the village of Dargo in the Vedeno district.

Akhmed Zakayev, Maskhadov's emissary in Europe, announced it commenting on the information that the separatist leader had been wounded in Chechnya.

They are using wooden truncheons against the demonstrators. Some people have already suffered. The people have been squirted on from a water cannon.

One of the homemade bombs went off in Gudermes, another on the Kavkaz ("Caucasus") federal highway.

"The most likely change of government option is linked with the people's movement," Victor Dallakian, Secretary of the Justice parliamentary faction, told journalists.

Free speech in Nagorno-Karabakh is much more limited than the legislative and administrative framework limiting it, analysts say.

Cruelly beaten, Aminat was thrown out by strangers on the outskirts of Nazran, according to her relatives.

Georgia's State Security Ministry does not rule out taking legal action against Yuri Netkachev who may have been in charge of exploding the bridges in Choloki and Kakuti.

Prices for meat doubled after the explosion of bridges to Ajaria. The price of fuel and other necessities is expected to rise, too.

All motor bridges on roads to Ajaria have been exploded. Armed people prevent everyone from crossing the border with Georgia on foot.