Thursday, February 07, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-07-08

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1. Georgia declares war on poverty
2. audio: US-Georgia relations at center of Saakashvili foreign policy
3. US says improvements in handling elections would bolster Georgia's NATO bid
4. At spring session parliament of Georgia to start discussing new legislative initiatives
5. Ombudsman to deliver an yearly report
6. Giorgi Isakadze is categorically against businessmen becoming involved in political games
7. Saakashvili's human resource crisis
8. Purge of Georgian ambassadors expected
9. Former ministers appointed deputy heads of presidential administration
10. President’s new parliamentary secretary appointed
11. Georgian authorities addressing opposition’s demands
12. Labor Party objects to kindergarten fee
13. Ramaz Klimiashvili: The opposition can call on 500 000 citizens to protest!
14. Talks fruitless so far as opposition start petition drive
15. Interview: Benita Ferrero-Waldner, EU Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy
16. Opposition, EU troika discuss forthcoming parliamentary poll
17. Estonian PM: Georgia must find its own way into European Union
18. Georgia invites European judges to handle arbitration cases
19. Broadcasting frequencies confiscated from their owners
20. Tbilisi and Moscow ponder next steps after Saakashvili’s inauguration
21. Gurgenidze says Putin's idea to build road in Dagestan will help relations
22. Kosovo: A hash in the Balkans?
23. Sukhumi values UN role in Georgian-Abkhaz settlement – ministry
24. No drivers license will be issued in Abkhazia without Russian passport
25. Enrolees in Abkhazia not to be able to pass entrance exams without Russian passport
26. Separatists impose restrictions
27. Abkhazia exports wine to Russia
28. Separatists force Georgians in Abkhazia to take Russian passports
29. Official denies Abkhaz reports of Georgian military exercise near conflict zone
30. Wheat processing enterprise in Georgia enlarged owing to foreign investments
31. Georgian macaroni to enter world’s market in future
32. Kazakh state company takes over Batumi Port, oil terminal
33. “New Network” and “Caucasus Online” – a standoff
34. Number of contenders for places in Board of Trustees of Public Broadcasting increased
35. Regional Media Association protests against violence directed against journalist Gela Mtivlishvili
36. Former employee of Constitutional Security Department back to prison
37. Judge tried and convicted dead person
38. Court considers case of murdered academic
39. Narcotics are sold in Kakheti region without problems
40. Why do prisoners keep facts of their harassment in secret from the ombudsman?
41. Eco-migrant protests decision from social protection agency
42. Chairperson of the Gori Municipality does not have information about the basic data and directions’ document
43. Georgian military personnel deployed in Iraq returned in Georgia
44. Georgia to host exhibition of Pablo Picasso and France to host exhibition of Pirosmani
45. Dimona victims were a team in the physics lab and at home
46. Apparent gas explosion injures two in Tbilisi
47. Road closures due to heavy snow
48. video: Wanted - a name for a baby elephant

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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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