Wednesday, January 16, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-16-08

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POLITICAL NEWS
1. GPB to be reorganized
2. Opposition holds protest rally
3. Opposition win TV concession
4. Tamar Kintsurashvili – new Director General to be appointed consequent to composition of GPB Board of Trustees
5. Opposition evaluates the decision of authorities on GPB reorganization issue as “sample of rationality”
6. Davit Usupashvili: Focus on GPB brings result
7. Levan Gachechiladze: GPB is in hands of people
8. Tsagareishvili positively evaluates initiative of Burjanadze
9. Ombudsman hails GPB reorganization
10. Nino Burjanadze expressed initiative of reorganization of GPB
11. Sarishvili calls lure initiative of authority about GPB
12. Opposition hails "victory" at rally outside Public TV
13. Georgian public broadcaster chief denies opposition's partiality reports
14. Nine-party opposition jubilant over Public TV reform
15. Opposition, authorities agree on Public TV reform
16. Tamar Kintsurashvili not commenting on Giorgi Targamadze’s statement
17. New programme produced by former Imedi TV journalists to be aired through GPB
18. Droeba analytical program takes shelter in GPB
19. Director General of GPB agrees with initiative of Acting President
20. Saakashvili meets Public Defender
21. Saakashvili pledges to address human rights concerns
22. Saakashvili holding meeting with Public Defender
23. Public defender Sozar Subari, demands a reaction on the offenses committed at Kardenakhi polling station #
24. Saakashvili promised Subari to monitor law-enforcement
25. Open letter to Mr. Michael Saakashvili, President of Georgia
26. Gachechiladze: “Opposition achieves success step by step”
27. Talks underway, but details unclear
28. Opposition candidates lodge lawsuits with Tbilisi City Court
29. Opposition urges vote recount or runoff poll
30. Gachechiladze on ‘speaking’ with authorities
31. Opposition confirms talks with Burjanadze
32. Administration confirms political trade with opposition
33. Opposition rejects govt's proposal on dialogue
34. Opposition vows court move to win recount
35. Burjanadze expressed hope of holding constructive dialogue with opposition
36. Security Council discusses talks between government, opposition
37. Radical opposition says no deal with authorities
38. Patriarch calls on authority and opposition to dialogue
39. Sarishvili seeking referendum on Georgia's neutrality
40. Natelashvili taken to hospital
41. Watchdog denies political links
42. GYLA accuses authority of attempting of discredit
43. Journalists request acting President of Georgia to release TV anchor Shalva Ramishvili
44. Georgia to push through reforms despite turmoil
45. What's in today's Russian newspapers?
46. Ramaz Klimiashvili: in the presidential election, people voted for the united opposition, not Levan Gachechiladze!
47. Labourists demand nullification of summing protocol of presidential elections
48. Mikheil Saakashvili to visit USA
49. Justice Minister says election reflected will of the people
50. Army to be Involved into inauguration of Georgian President 20 Jan
51. Oskanyan to take part in Saakashvili’s inauguration
52. Kazakh leader congratulates Georgian fellow on poll win
53. Latvian president to take part in Saakashvili inauguration
54. Russia not interested in a fresh start to Tbilisi-Moscow relations
55. Georgia officially invites Putin to president elect’s inauguration
56. Russian TV and radio highlights 7-13 January
57. HRIDC: Preliminary report on Georgia’s presidential elections 2008
58. Violations discovered by “the Coalition for Democracy” but overlooked by international observers
59. Who should we trust?
60. Demonstrators bound for Tbilisi detained
61. Prisoners were not allowed to vote
62. On November 7 American journalist was beaten
63. Political opponents assault each other in the villages of Gori District
64. Who was trying to blow up the office of the United Opposition?
65. During elections observers could not name their organizations
66. Population of Samegrelo region “rocked the cradle” for Mikheil Saakashvili again
67. Flawed presidential election in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region
68. Policemen physically assaulted the observers
69. Violations in Gori
70. January 5 presidential elections from one polling station in Tbilisi

COMMENTARY
71. Confrontation between Mikheil Saakashvili and the opposition
72. Georgian democracy strengthened by political crisis: analysts
73. How institutions think. Presidential election in Georgia and Badri Patarkatsishvili's post-modern projects
74. The Georgian chalk circle

OTHER NEWS
75. French court to hear Georgian opposition leader's case in late Jan.
76. Fears of injuries close schools as Tbilisi weathers deep freeze
77. ‘Maximum’ inflation figure to be introduced
78. Baku–Akhalkalaki–Kars to face competition
79. Government to come up with plan for cheap loans and increased pensions in 50 days
80. Government of Georgia submits to Parliament Global Competitiveness of Financial Services Sector Act
81. Security Council assembles in parliament
82. Minister says Georgia's integration with NATO not against Russia's interests
83. Conflict resolution, border security are top OSCE priorities for 2008 – chairman
84. Abkhazia sees no future in talks with Georgia's Saakashvili
85. Georgia in "confidential" talks with Abkhaz separatists – agency
86. Abkhaz minister denies alleged confidential negotiations with Tbilisi
87. Abkhazia denies forcing ethnic Georgians to renounce Georgian citizenship
88. Abkhaz separatists freed 35 arrested Gali residents
89. The Human Rights Center congratulates Abkhaz with the New Year
90. Conference on Caucasus resorts to be held in Sukhumi
91. Boris Chochiev accuses the Sanakoyev administration of cutting the water pipeline
92. The heat is on [excerpt]

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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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