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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Georgia's Black Sea resort of Batumi for talks with President Mikhail Saakashvili.
Scores of officials of the Georgian Education Ministry's examinations center have submitted resignations to protest the dismissal of the center's director, Maya Miminoshvili, who was hailed as a model civil servant just months before her son turned up last weekend at an opposition political rally.
Visitors to one of the Georgian Orthodox Church's most sacred sites were able on May 21 to visit the entire complex after the border agencies of Georgia and Azerbaijan reached an agreement on access.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he is willing to resign if Russian troops withdraw from Georgia's two separatist regions. Saakashvili says he is even ready to mutilate himself in return for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russia has expressed a willingness to restore diplomatic relations with neighboring Georgia, according to a statement posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Georgia's Interior Ministry says a former lawmaker has been arrested on charges of plotting a coup amid a political crisis in the country some four years ago.
