Friday, February 15, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-15-08

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1. Georgian billionaire's death 'natural causes'
2. video: Georgian tycoon's death 'natural': UK police
3. video: Georgian opposition leader death "natural" say police
4. Initial tests show opposition leader died of natural causes
5. Tycoon's death dominates Georgian and Russian media
6. British press recount Patarkatsishvili’s last hours
7. Patarkatsishvili is gone, but questions to him remain
8. Russian MP is sure Berezovsky to be interested most of all in Patarkatsishvili’s death
9. Editor of “Novaya Gazeta” claims Badri Patarkatsishvili was ready to sell “Imedi” to government
10. Nino Burjanadze expressed her condolences to family of Badri Patarkatsishvili
11. Badri Patarkatsishvili, a death too strange & sudden
12. Patarkatsishvili leaves behind a nervous nation
13. Suspicious death of key Georgian oligarch likely to derail government-opposition negotiations 14. Dead tycoon’s last contacts to be traced
15. Death in Surrey: A Georgian oligarch's demise raises suspicion
16. British secret services may have helped Saakashvili remove opponent
17. The mysterious death of Georgia’s richest man
18. Death riddle of £6billion man
19. A tangled web of power, influence and controversy
20. Badri Patarkatsishvili lawyer against ceasing criminal investigation
21. U.S. ambassador says democracy 'depends on both sides'
22. Can Saakashvili keep the country together?
23. Ruling party’s memorandum
24. Authorities lay out position on opposition demands
25. Opposition brushes off ruling party’s response
26. Burjanadze defends ruling party’s proposals
27. ‘We are shocked by ruling party response’ – Opposition Leader
28. Dzidziguri: Opposition not to sign memorandum proposed by authority
29. Pavle Kublashvili hopes to continue dialogue with the opposition
30. Government ready to fulfill number of opposition’s demands
31. New Rights call for opposition unity to ‘defeat authorities’
32. Opposition halts dialogue with government, plans to resume protests
33. Opposition demands investigation of fact of forging presidential elections
34. Consultations about party lists have not begun
35. Opposition asks assistance from NATO Council to hold democratic parliamentary elections
36. Opposition member’s home raided in Kvareli
37. Government is ready to release prisoners detained on November 7 in week
38. GEL 625,000 allocated for Diaspora Ministry
39. Economic Development Minister and employers discuss strong and weak sides of employment program
40. Media names former MP as possible CEC chair
41. CEC punishes District Election Commission member for exposing election fraud
42. Parliamentary elections to be held between May 14 and May 24
43. Special forces of police are at office of “Movement for United Georgia”
44. Members of “Movement for United Georgia” try to enter their sequestrated office
45. National Christian Movement battles Church’s ‘enemies’
46. Republicans object to prosecutor's decision in Batumi
47. New governors: Akhalkalaki and Akhalsikhe Municipalities
48. The Ministry of Defense deceived workers
49. NATO Summit may approve Georgia’s membership
50. President Saakashvili briefs on Kosovo incident
51. Threatening Georgia again
52. Georgia's president issues firm warning
53. Saakashvili responds to "alarming signals" regarding breakaway regions
54. Kosovo a frustration for Russia; Eager to wield power, Moscow warns against independence bid
55. Georgia says Abkhazia, S Ossetia are no Kosovo
56. Putin: Kosovo will set a precedent
57. Russian election debate: foreign policy, restoration of USSR [excerpt]
58. Russia is closer than Ukraine to NATO [excerpt]
59. Tentative agreement on Russia’s WTO entry terms
60. Moscow, Sukhumi discuss interaction in light of Kosovo situation
61. Abkhaz passports in exchange for electricity
62. Ganmukhuri’s locals never compensated for Abkhaz Militants burning down their homes
63. Georgian side protests Russian peacekeepers' willful trainings
64. Georgian Prime Minister lauds Ras Al Khaimah’s investment climate
65. Georgia to invest in RAK
66. Armenian and Georgian foreign ministers discussed the issues of the two states cooperation
67. Georgia and Azerbaijan: partners in pipelines, antagonists in energy export talks
68. Georgian FM meets with Lithuanian FM
69. Estonia needs to refocus policy towards Georgia
70. Number of applicants for membership in Public Broadcasting’s Board of Trustees reached 140
71. Director General of Public Broadcasting plans to resign after the new Board of Trustees is approved
72. Georgian National Communications Commission to discuss the possibility of suspending TV station “Imedi’s” license
73. ‘I will resign after new board is elected’ – Public TV head
74. Patriarch receives Jews' organization
75. Land thief: Mikheil Khubutia holds Ministry of Internal Affairs and government responsible
76. Freezing weather in Samtskhe-Javakheti
77. Sacking of teacher from Zemo Bodbe on political grounds
78. Meteorologists: “Years of salary arrears”
79. Public Defender requests Prosecutor’s Office to investigate doctor’s torture
80. Attorneys were jailed for taking bribes
81. Government’s debts: Neither funds nor flat
82. Swindlers of the “facades”
83. Art teachers demand salaries and arrears
84. Tbilisi City Hall appoints nursery school principals only for 10-days
85. Lots of mud and blocked streets in Kutaisi
86. State Ballet of Georgia launches first-ever U.S. tour at UC Berkeley
87. Prima Ballerina Nina Ananiashvili to grace Santa Barbara: The Giselle of our time

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Jonathan Kulick, Ph.D., Director of Studies, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 3a Chitadze, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia (Republic),
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