Tuesday, May 15, 2007

NEWS:
Jonathan Kulick wil be on the road until June 3.
The digest will be episodic and abridged for the next two weeks.
Georgia News Digest 05-15-07
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1. audio: William Langewiesche Browses the 'Atomic Bazaar' [excerpt]
Morning Edition, NPR, May 15
audio at www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10175622

2. Speaker Says Tbilisi 'Ready For Normal Relations' With Russia
3. Russian Embassy Celebrates 62nd Anniversary of Victory Over Fascism
4. Russian sanctions cost Georgia 100 million dollars: report
5. Russia's roving ambassador to arrive in Tbilisi on Tuesday
6. Burjanadze Visits Czech Republic
7. 26+1 format meeting to be held in Brussels
8. Estonia and Georgia: from Common Grievances to Shared Visions
9. Presidents hail Krakow summit
10. PM Comments on South Ossetia
11. Sanakoev prepared to meet with Kokoity
12. Gigi Ugulava delivers bus to Kurta
13. Georgian premier, peacekeeper command, slam de facto SO authorities
14. Tbilisi mayor meets with Sanakoyev
15. Tbilisi Mayor to arrive in conflict zone
16. "Georgia’s Authorities will not Refuse Dialogue with Sanakoev" - State Minister on Conflict resolution Issues
17. Dimitri Sanakoev to Head South Ossetia Provisional Administrative Entity
18. Abkhaz vice-president interviewed on conflict with Georgia, tourist trade
19. Ethnic Quagmire: Religions, Ethnicities and Identity Politics in Unrecognized Abkhazia
20. Newspaper "Gali" Editor Beaten in Gali
21. Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project workgroup meets in Baku
22. Heydar Aliyev Determines Strategic Development of South Caucasus Ahead of Time
23. Opposition MP Questions Saakashvili’s Azeri Border Remarks
24. Government Disapproves Faction "Mretsvelebi" Initiative
25. Protestors to demand president's resignation
26. Davit Gareji row continue:s: Opposition skeptical of president's solution
27. President awards young inventors
28. Sartichala village has drinking water problem
29. Electrokavshiri staff demands improvement of working
30. Three Georgians detained in Dubai
31. Amnesty International Eyes Batiashvili Case "We are considering whether Batiashvili is a Prisoner of Conscience"
32. Imprisonment of Juveniles: Harsh and Ineffective
33. Georgia’s Eurovision Debut Ends in Success
34. "People Abandoned By Everyone" Are Not Going to Give In
35. Georgian Citizen Appeals Against US Government
36. Gori Law Enforcers Detained Mentally Disabled Young People
37. Patrol Policeman Was Sentenced to Seven-year-old Imprisonment
38. Students Remained Without Diplomas
39. Homeless Man Dreams to Enroll the Program for Impoverished People
40. Fighting with Natural Disaster with Bare Hands
41. The Environmental Ministry Does Not Pay Off Debts
42. Soldier Sacrificed to "Collected Money"
43. The two new squares opened in Didube-Chigureti district in Tbilisi
44. Merabishvili promises increased road safety measures
45. NGO reintroduces old strains to Georgia
46. 3 kg of heroin confiscated
47. SME sector in need of support
48. Controversy over Nemsadze's resignation continues
49. GFF to elect new president
50. 'Chven erti gundi vart' no longer: trouble at the Football Federation

full digest: Georgia News Digest - Ansicht in Groups BetaNeu!

Jonathan Kulick, Ph.D., Director of Studies, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 3a Chitadze, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia (Republic), jonathan.kulick@gfsis.org, office: +995 32 47 35 55, mobile: +995 95 33 33 40, USA voicemail: 310.928.6814

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