GEORGIANS yesterday bade farewell to late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, who died three days earlier in a friend’s apartment, amid worries for the future of their struggling country and doubts about the official explanation of his death.

Shaken Georgian leaders have made a plea for calm after Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania was found dead in a friend’s apartment, a blow to President Mikhail Saakashvili’s ambitious pledges to wipe out corruption and resolve two simmering separatist conflicts.