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Georgian president opens new ski gondola, with Kalashnikov security
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A new ski gondola has swung into action at the resort of Bakuriani in Georgia. Its president Mikhail Saakashvili has hailed the venture "The first modern cable way in the post-Soviet space."

That isn't a reference to any post-Soviet space programme - the gondola actually climbs Didveli Mountain, where the president has his sights set on hosting the Winter Olympics. The gondola serves gentle slopes (further lifts are planned for steeper pistes) but there was plenty of drama when the president took his inaugural trip:
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The top of the lift was guarded by Kalashnikov-toting men in black and the president himself carved his turns in the company of well armed skimobiles, giving the impression of a moveable James Bond sequence.

Saakashvili took advantage of the new facility, completing five or six runs and exhibiting a competent, if not expert, downhill style. The lift closed not soon after the president was whisked away in his line of black SUVs, despite arguments from a group of men who assured the operators that "Misha [the president] told me personally that we could go up one more time."

According to this entertaining report from The Messenger, President Saakashvili has promised free lift tickets for the next month.

The report makes a reference to "Niva drivers" trying to get up the access road - can anyone shed any light on this?
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Niva is the old Lada 4*4 car
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