Saturday, January 26, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-25-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. PM announces cabinet shake-up
2. New cabinet named
3. Saakashvili promises new faces in government
4. Saakashvili comments on new cabinet, opposition
5. Chances of parties in parliamentary election
6. audio: Saakashvili faces old challenges
7. Burjanadze visits Austria
8. General Prosecutor to become Chief President’s Administration
9. PACE to debate Georgia draft resolution
10. report: Honouring of obligations and commitments by Georgia
11. Remarks to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
12. Saakashvili says recent crisis "important lesson" for Georgia, Europe
13. Saakashvili says veto on Russia joining WTO could be lifted
14. Saakashvili ready to arrive in Moscow, begin relations from scratch
15. Saakashvili ready to settle all conflicts by peaceful means
16. Saakashvili ready for dialogue with Russia at all levels
17. Saakashvili hails Lavrov statement
18. Talk with Saakashvili at PACE to be sharp, substantive – Kosachev
19. Ganira Pashayeva participates in discussion of issue on Georgia’s commitments
20. Transformation of CIS into NATO: NATO's expansion into the post-Soviet zone continues
21. Georgia, Ukraine NATO membership bid "ritual dance" - Russian envoy
22. video: Interview: Dmitry Rogozin
23. Dangerous mobilization
24. CoE head denies willingness to invite secessionist leaders
25. video: Russia denies nationhood deals with Georgia's breakaway regions
26. Will the vector of Russian-Georgian relations change?
27. Political scientists to discuss perspectives of Georgian-Rrussian relations on Thursday
28. Sticks and carrots for everyone
29. The West no longer understands Lavrov
30. European Parliament issues resolution on South Caucasus
31. Russia accuses Georgia of ignoring Abkhazia, South Ossetia in plebiscite
32. Saakashvili welcomes Lavrov’s statement on breakaway regions
33. Strife between ethnic Russian, Chechen troops in Abkhazia
34. Commander denies Georgian reports of clash between Chechen, Russian peacekeepers
35. Tbilisi denies Abkhaz maritime incident
36. Caucasus on alert over Kosovo
37. Transnistria opens representation in South Ossetia
38. report: Georgia’s energy policy: Overview of main directions
39. Estonian company "Port Arthur Group" plans to build industrial center in Rustavi
40. Oil wealth has been a mixed blessing [excerpt]
41. Government to discuss several forms of alienation of Georgian Railways
42. Opposition aims at position of head of GPB information services
43. Nana Lezhava won’t return to journalism
44. Two Ukrainian organizations, involved in exit polls for Georgian presidential elections, enter into controversy
45. Constitutional Court Chairman leaves for European Court
46. Special program has been prepared for the integration of Azerbaijanis living in Georgia into Georgian society
47. Shalva Natelashvili’s condition is stable
48. Tbilisi mayor met with museum employees
49. NGOs demand Tbilisi mayor’s resignation
50. United opposition to publish memorandum with new demands
51. Attorney Shalva Khachapuridze to defend interests of Valeri Gelbakhiani
52. Prosecutors request for stripping ‘coup plotter’ of MP credentials

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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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