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The Georgian authorities are using the situation surrounding gas and electricity deliveries from Russia to distract attention from other problems affecting the country, chairman of the Igor Georgadze charity foundation in Georgia Irina Sarishvili- Chanturiya said. \"The events are profitable to for the Georgian authorities who are using the explosions to distract attention away from the real problems facing the country,\" she told Interfax on Monday. \"Armenia, which has also suffered from these explosions, has not echoed the comments of the Georgian authorities,\" she said.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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