Mr Giorgadze fled to Russia in the mid-1990s and founded a pro-Russian Georgian political party in 2003.
"I'm not pro-American or pro-Russian - I am pro-Georgian, " the new president said in his inaugural speech.
President Viktor Yanukovych - elected in April 2010 - has said EU membership is a "strategic aim" but has been accused of being a placeman for pro-Russian tendencies in the country.
Mr Kuchma himself won the presidency five years ago, running as a pro-Russian left-winger in a similar scrap against an unpopular but powerful incumbent who had also taken a solid lead in the first round.
More galling still for Russian observers was the spectacle, a few days later, of Mr Clinton receiving a rapturous welcome in Bulgaria, a country where pro-western and pro-Russian groups have, until recently, been finely balanced.
It is a bitter reversal for Tymoshenko since the Orange Revolution days, when she and her ally Viktor Yushchenko packed the streets of Ukraine in protest at a rigged election that went in favour of the pro-Russian Mr Yanukovych.
The paper remarks that the Duma "seems to have got... for the first time in recent Russian history a pro-government faction likely to control up to a half of the votes".
"The Russian government is very pro-foreign investment, " she said.
He plans to lead pro-business political party Right Cause, he told Russian newswire RIA Novosti.
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Putin also cracked down on pro-democracy and foreign non-profits critical of Russian democracy.
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But what is limiting such a quid-pro-quo from taking place is not, as Gabe strongly suggests, Russian obstruction and intransigence.
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One pro-Kremlin politician in Russia has publicly appealed to Lugovoi to travel to London to take the pressure off the Russian government.
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