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2007-03-29 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

The body of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia's first post-Soviet president and one of the most controversial figures in the chaos of Georgia's early independent years, was returned Wednesday to Tbilisi for burial more than a decade after it disappeared.

The body, which was found in Chechnya earlier this month, was brought back by ambulance, with Gamsakhurdia supporters standing along snowy roads holding portraits of him as the vehicle passed. The remains were taken to the Gamsakhurdia family's ancestral house in Tbilisi to await burial. His widow, Manana, had demanded that he be buried on the grounds of Tbilisi's cathedral, but a government commission has recommended he be interred at the pantheon of noted Georgian writers on Mtatsminda mountain at the city's edge.

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