Monday, February 25, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-22-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. report: A Flickering Beacon of Democracy: Human Rights in Georgia in 2007
2. Georgian, Russian Ministers on Putin-Saakashvili talks
3. A look ahead at strategic relations with Russia [excerpt]
4. Russia agrees on terms to lift Georgian air blockade
5. video: Russia & Georgia: Frosty relations thawing?
6. Georgian, Russian leaders to discuss ties at CIS summit
7. Foreign Minister optimistic following Saakashvili-Putin meeting
8. Premier hails agreements with Russia on resuming flights
9. Russia assesses positively talks between Russia, Georgia
10. Saakashvili invites Putin to visit as PM, calls for cooperation
11. Putin sees signs of improvement in relations with Georgia
12. video: Interview: Aslan Abashidze
13. Russia's Latin lover
14. Russia warns Georgia against joining NATO
15. Georgia willing to respect Russia's interests in joining NATO
16. NATO- Big risk or big security
17. McCain, Lieberman, and NATO
18. We are not going to an opposing bloc!
19. State Department daily press briefing [excerpt]
20. Grin and bear it. Declaration of independence by Kosovo bodes problems for Europe [excerpts]
21. Treading carefully on the matter of Kosovo independence
22. Separatists recognize Kosovo's independence
23. Kosova and the “frozen” conflicts of the former USSR
24. The case for clarity: Why does the EU support independence for Kosovo?
25. Kosovo, controversially free at last [excerpt]
26. In uneasy position, Georgian troops protect Kosovo’s independence
27. Abkhazia, S. Ossetia preparing to ask Russia, CIS, UN to recognize independence
28. Abkhazia, Georgia favouring peace process under UN lead praised
29. Abkhazia and South Ossetia: A backgrounder
30. Hunger strike scheduled by United Opposition to be supposedly postponed
31. Opposition gears up for rally, hunger strike
32. Seven leaders of united opposition to participate in hunger strike
33. Irakli Batiashvili: the opposition’s huger strike will have an international resonance!
34. Labourists to join hunger strike in case of demanding dismissal of Saakashvili
35. Labour Party forms National Insubordination Council
36. Some NGOs, opposition parties join Labor Party declaration
37. Party to collect signatures for banning foreign bases
38. GEL 721,000 spent on Gachechiladze election campaign
39. Needed amendments held up by parliamentary wrangling
40. Speaker expresses readiness for dialogue with opposition
41. Chairperson of Parliament of Georgia called upon opposition to continue dialogue with authorities
42. Ruling party’s political games do no one any favors
43. Ruling party firm on its earlier proposals
44. The President of Georgia has met the representatives of the scientific society
45. Saakashvili pardons 32 convicts
46. Burjanadze in Vienna for OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
47. Health minister met with directors of medical institutions
48. Parliament may approve Board of Trustees’ members on February 26
49. Georgian Regional Media Association (GRMA) announcement
50. Issue of Imedi TV will not be discussed at the meeting of News Corp Europe authorities
51. Union of Orthodox Parents protested in front of Public Broadcaster office
52. Finance Minister reported to businessmen on the bill concerning Global Competitiveness Of The Financial Sector
53. MPs find unacceptable articles in package of Draft Laws on Global Competitiveness in Financial Sector
54. The Government agreed upon with banks the program of cheap crediting
55. Subsistence minimum on decline in Georgia - National Bank
56. Bread price not to be increased in Georgia
57. Controversy over ‘downgrading’ role of State Audit Agency
58. Besik Shengelia appointed as Commander of Georgian Navy
59. Project works to promote sexual health education in Georgia
60. Armenia to deliver cement for Sochi Olympics construction
61. Money being taken from the students
62. Meeting dedicated to CRA legal basis improvement to be held in Bakuriani
63. Lost people founded and hospitalized in Tbilisi
64. Government to help population damaged with heavy snow
65. video: Skiing cancelled - due to snow!
66. African swine flu: Did the plague break out, or did somebody break it out?
67. Shida Kartli governor ignores illegal activities of Gori’s Municipality Council
68. Kakhetians cheated by Georgian President Saakashvili
69. Government criticized over harassed journalists
70. People born in Georgia cannot integrate in the country
71. Disable people petition president
72. Investigation needed: Activities of the Kakheti Regional Agency for Social Subsidies
73. Gela Mtivlishvili blames the Prosecutor’s Office
74. Nine years as “hostages” in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley
75. Hard evidence and/or a fourteen-year sentence?
76. Hunger strike of cheated property owners
77. video: First ice championship held in Georgian mountains

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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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