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Merkushev's chants cause an intense reaction in some of the faithful. Women cry or laugh uncontrollably.

Olga Ternovyikh reels back and forth, typnotized. The trance lasts only moments and when she awakes she tells of hearing beautiful music and dancing with a man in white...

All eyes in the tiny crowded room close as Merkushev begins the trance, saying 'sleep, sleep I command you to sleep.'

They call him 'extra-sense', 'faith healer', 'magic man'. Skeptics would call him a quack. But the 60 plus people who crammed into a tiny room in a Siberian village one Saturday morning were not skeptics. They were believers who came from far and…

Please Pardon the Disturbance written on a tank on Rustaveli Prospect. Clean up of the city began after Gamsakhurdia fled and the fighting ceased.

An opposition fighter holds a gold plated miniature tank, the spoils of war, taken from the Parliament building after Gamsakhurdia fled.

Two opposition fighters hug in celebration as the parliament building burns after Gamsakhurdia fled the city.

The bullet riddled ruins of an old Georgian hotel on Rustaveli Prospect in downtown Tbilisi after the fighting.

Residents return to Rustaveli Prospect to find the lovely old street and their homes and shops in ruins after the fierce fighting.

Last Kiss, His wife kisses the body of Levon Taktakishvili, 21, shot to death by masked militiamen during a demonstration in support of besieged president Gamsakhurdia. (Funeral).