Capital mourns victims, dissatisfaction with government

Описание: (13 Aug 2008) SHOTLIST
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1. Wide of Tbilisi skyline
2. Wide of pedestrians walking in Tbilisi streets
3. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Giorgi Lomidze, Tblisi resident:
"The situation is very grave and we are not expecting any improvement, even worst can come if this government stays in power."
4. Tbilisi street
5. SOUNBITE: (English) Nikoloz Gogua Tblisi resident:
"I'm happy. I'm not Russian. I'm Georgian. I'm free person."
6. Various of Tbilisi streets
STORYLINE:
As Georgia and Russia both agreed on a truce brokered by France on Wednesday, residents of the Georgian capital Tbilisi expressed mixed emotions about what might happen next.
While the city appeared calm, many remained frustrated with the government of President Mikhail Saakashvili.
"The situation is very grave and we are not expecting any improvement," Tbilisi resident, Giorgi Lomidze told AP Television News.
"Even the worst can come if this government stays in power," he said.
However, other residents, including Nikoloz Gogua, expressed hope.
"I'm happy. I'm not Russian. I'm Georgian. I'm free person," he said.
After several days of fighting, Saakashvili said early on Wednesday that he agreed to the "general principles" of a plan for ending the violence.
The ceasefire plan brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls for both Russian and Georgian troops to return to their positions before the fighting erupted in South Ossetia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had agreed to the proposal in a meeting with Sarkozy in Moscow on Tuesday.
More than two-thousand people have reportedly been killed in the fighting which broke out in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia last Thursday.
The death toll couldn't be independently confirmed, but witnesses who fled the area over the weekend said hundreds had died.
The overall death toll was expected to rise because large areas of Georgia were still too dangerous for journalists to enter and see the true scope of the damage.
Georgia has stressed that it believes Russia's response was disproportionate.
Its ambassador to the United Nations said on Tuesday that the violence continued despite Russia's pledge to stop the fighting.

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