Wednesday, May 30, 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 05-28-07
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Archives and associated files at groups-beta.google.com/group/genews/files


1.paper: The Role of the European Union in the Normalisation of the Georgia-Russia Relationship:
Promises and Impediments
By Archil Gegeshidze GFSIS, March 2007 paper at http://gfsis.org/pub/files/publications_security/expert_opinion_archil_gegeshidze_eng.pdf

2.paper: The "Immortal" Idea of a Free Economic Zone. By Vladimer Papava GFSIS, April 2007 paper at http://gfsis.org/pub/files/publications_economics/expert_opinion_vladimer_papava_eng.pdf

3.Russia: in transition or intransigent? [excerpts]
4.Georgia Drags Russia Into Yet Another Spy Scandal
5.Caucasian Migrants' Struggle In Russia
6.Direct railway ferry service to resume between Georgia, Russia – agency
7.Russian policy in Caucasus relies on mistaken thesis
8.Saakashvili's unintended promotion by Russia
9.Presidents' phone records on Russian web sites
10.Saakashvili Undecided over CIS Summit
11.Burjanadze to Address NATO PA in Portugal
12.Georgia expects 'green light' from NATO
13.Georgia Got 98 Mln Dollars Worth Of US Military Aid In 2002-2004
14.Krtsanisi: Preparing Troops For Deployment To Iraq
15.Delegation of Lithuanian Armed Forces visit Tbilisi
16.Delegation of Ministry Of Justice leaves for Estonia
17.Jordan’s King to Visit Georgia
18.Georgian president, Jordanian king sign framework agreement
19.Missing persons in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia [excerpt]
20.event summary: The Caucasus: New Agendas for Scholarship and Public Policy
21.Chechen Refugees Demand To Resettle to Europe
22.Statement of Bantz J. Craddock Commander, United States European Command United States Army [excerpt]
23.Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan setting up expert team to regulate transport prices
24.Suicide bomber planned to blow up BTC section in Turkey
25.Political analyst: It is not worthy to search for pro-Western or pro-Russian forces in Armenia
26.Ministers Gul And Yilmaz Due To Georgia
27.Armenia remains pro-Russian and pro-Georgian
28.Georgia and Turkey mark 15th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations
29.Saakashvili Wants International Community to Speak Out
30.Georgian breakaway region concerned about "threat" of fresh hostilities
31.Lekso Aleksishvili meets with alternative leader Dmitri Sanakoyev in Kurta
32.Finance Minister Meets S. Ossetia Administration Chief
33.Georgia urges partner negotiators to fulfil agreement on South Ossetia
34.Nocturnal Skirmish In South Ossetia: Tbilisi accuses Russia of support of Tskhinvali's separatism
35.Georgian president notes "tense" situation in South Ossetia – MP
36.Pro-Tbilisi South Ossetian leader denies meeting Georgian ex-minister
37.Russia begins rotation of South Ossetian peacekeepers
38.Georgia planning terrorist attacks ahead of Independence Day - South Ossetia
39.Russian peacekeepers safely arrive in South Ossetia
40.Separatist South Ossetia's Ministry Says Army On Alert After Shelling
41.Kokoity Demands Abolition Of Sanakoyev: Russia refuses to acknowledge the head of pro-Georgian administration
42.EU 'distancing itself' from latest Georgia peace plan
43.S Ossetia says Georgian units building fortifications
44.Mine discovered in public school yard in Tamarasheni
45.Dmitri Sanakoyev denies meeting with Irakli Okruashvili
46.Kokoity decides to calculate damages
47.Georgian, S Ossetian parties warned not to create gun emplacements
48.Sanakoev Meets Interior Minister, Businessman
49.Tbilisi Calls for JCC 'Working Meeting' over S. Ossetia
50.Sanakoev Denies Meeting with Ex-Defense Minister
51.MPs in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia concerned about low birth rate
52.Russia to complete peacekeeper rotation in Abkhazia by June 2
53.US Envoy Regrets Lack Of Georgian-Abkhaz Dialogue
54.New administration head appointed in Gali
55.De facto Sokhumi is not going to hold negotiations
56.First patriot camp opens in Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone
57.TSU hosts Abkhaz Week
58.Series of kidnappings in Abkhazia
59.U.S. Ambassador Visits Sokhumi
60.Public opinion: What is the biggest problem in Georgia nowadays?
61.The most decisive reform: Despite the enthusiasm of investors, the privatization of hospitals provokes questions
62.Mikheil Saakashvili: Georgia became successful and less corrupt
63.Energy subsidies "waste of public money"
64.Reduction of social and income taxes still unaccomplished
65.The Fighter Against Fecal Matter Goes Into Opposition: A Dangerous Opponent has appeared to Saakashvili
66.Several deputies listened the report made by Lekso Aleksishvili
67.Conservative Party to collect signatures
68.School principals summoned to Education Ministry
69.President and patriarch "resolve misunderstanding"
70.Anger as Orthodox church is demolished in Georgia
71.Opposition MPs Demand Answers over Demolished Church
72.Irakli Batiashvili - another political prisoner in Georgia: Even Communists did not arrest people this way!
73.General Prosecutor’s Office: Irakli Batiashvili was not Convicted of His Political Views and Public Statements
74.Court sentences Batiashvili to 7 years
75.Opposition and Several NGOs Consider that Irakli Batiashvili is Imprisoned for Expressing his Own Opinion
76.Opposition Politician Jailed for 7 Years
77.Georgian lawmakers call nationalist's murder politically motivated
78.Civil funerals held in Kashueti Church
79.Still no clear motive for former MPs murder
80.Suspect in Ex-MP Murder Case Denied Bail
81.Opposition Wants Probe into Top MIA Official’s ‘Wrongdoings’
82.Opposition demands re-organization of Interior Ministry
83.Ombudsman Wants Top MIA Official to be Suspended
84.Tamaz Bregvadze will be probably sentenced to imprisonment
85.Amnesty Says Police Enjoy Impunity in ‘Dozens of Cases’
86.Ombudsman Demands on Punishing Trialeti Property Destroyers
87.Presentation of Documentary on Law Enforcers’ Illegal Activities Held
88.Precedent on Georgian Internet Space - Georgian Providers Recourse to Internet Censorship
89.AIDS taboo slow to shift: Medical experts worry that HIV infection is spreading to new groups in society
90.Fighting with Natural Disaster with Bare Hands
91.The Environmental Ministry Does Not Pay Off Debts
92.Soldier Sacrificed to "Collected Money"
93.Every Fifth Woman Is Victim of Violence
94.Chechen Refugees from Pankisi Gorge Have Temporarily Stopped Demonstration
95.Kutaisi Authority Fights against Street Traders
96.Students Blame Credit Union for Violating Their Rights
97.With the Hope of Thirty-Five-Lari Allowance
98.Mtkvari Threatens the Village
99.Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Will Be Evicted in Zugdidi
100.Tsignagi University Is Going To Be Closed Down
101.Pupils of Other Nationalities Will Learn Georgian
102.Peasants Rebel in Kakheti
103.Human Rights in Imereti
104.Gori Administration Board Stalls on Releasing Information to the Public
105.Victims Demand Rehabilitation of the Dead Person
106.Bloodshed on Religious Grounds
107.American Citizenship Is a Guarantee for Impunity
108.Ancient monastery complex discovered in Kakheti
109.Rally of pensioners held in Chiatura
110.526 pills of Subotex confiscated in Georgia
111.Child dies in maternity house in Rustavi
112.Nikoloz Vacheishvili to visit recently discovered monastery in Kakheti
113.Diplomatic corps visits Badri Patarkatsishvili's residence
114.Giorgi Kheviashvili and Naveed Hussein sign an agreement
115.Age of criminal responsibility reduced from 14 to 12
116.Public opinion: lowering imprisonment age to 12 for juvenile offenders unacceptable
117.Central Bank Chief Denies Plans to Resign


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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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