Saturday, March 15, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 03-14-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. Saakashvili urges opposition to engage in dialogue ahead of poll
2. Saakashvili calls opposition for dialogue as elections loom
3. Opposition calls for large-scale protests
4. Path to impasse
5. Davit Gamkrelidze pins responsibility on Nino Burjanadze for current situation
6. Giorgi Targamadze meets Azerbaijani ambassador to Georgia
7. Irakli Okruashvili plans hunger strike
8. Labor Party calls for election boycott
9. Opposition plans mass rally in Tbilisi March 16
10. Georgian Academy expresses solidarity with opposition
11. Opposition leader in meetings with Berezovskiy
12. Berezovsky says not indifferent towards Georgia
13. Exiled tycoon Berezovsky meets with Georgian opposition
14. Goga Khaindrava to film documentary about Badri Patarkatsishvili
15. Patarkatsishvili's widow to issue statement, meets with Khaindrava in London
16. Opposition figure discusses Imedi TV with Patarkatsishvili family
17. A leader of the opposition party deprived Rustavi 2 journalist of working opportunity
18. MP and speaker's guards dispute about a photo camera
19. 65 MPs address board of Public Broadcast
20. MPs support initiative on handing Channel 2 over to Georgian Patriarchy
21. Nobody from “New Rights” Party appealed with demand of meeting media
22. Combustible Caucasus
23. Moscow's diplomatic offensive
24. Scheffer at the conference on “NATO’s Bucharest Summit – transformation of the Alliance” [excerpt]
25. GUAM summit date defined
26. Georgian PM visits Baku
27. Saakashvili visits Brussels
28. The President of Georgia attends European People’s Party Forum in Brussels
29. Georgia among the “states to watch”
30. Serzh Sarkisian: “Turkey-Georgia-Azerbaijan economic cooperation is turning into a military alliance”
31. Georgia is not to yield its national interests for improvement of relations with Russia - Kitsmarishvili
32. Russian upper house committee head argues against Abkhazia, Ossetia recognition
33. Russia unlikely to recognize Georgia's breakaway regions – official
34. Russia does not have to recognize Abkhazia, S.Ossetia – legislator
35. Russian MP outlines Duma proposal on relations with CIS breakaway regions
36. Duma should come up with tough but just measures to resolve CIS conflicts – MP
37. Mironov urges Russian banks to be more active in Abkhazia, South Ossetia
38. Duma offers to consider opening missions in Abkhazia, S Ossetia
39. Hearings in State Duma on unrecognized republics: “Nobody spoke against recognition”
40. Russian lawmakers call for missions in Georgian rebel regions
41. Russia would be wrong to recognize Georgian breakaway republics - former premier
42. Russia must solve issues of unrecognized republics based on its own interests: Interview with Alexei Ostrovsky
43. Duma may call for Russia’s missions in Sokhumi, Tskhinvali
44. UN Security Council disagrees on Kosovo
45. Nor is Abkhazia unique
46. Russia's Abkhazian initiatives splitting CIS
47. Moscow administration considers building health resort in Abkhazia
48. Georgia said "inwardly ready" for recognition of Abkhazia's independence
49. Tbilisi-backed Abkhaz body condemns Russia's actions
50. Separatists say Georgia setting up "illegal" police posts in South Ossetia
51. Supreme Council concerns over existed developments
52. Russia’s Abkhazian blackmail
53. Onischenko attracted with Abkhazian wines
54. Pupils of Abkhazian schools get basic military trainings
55. Russia regions can directly cooperate with Abkhazia – speaker
56. Georgian-Ossetian group rallies against Russian Duma debate
57. South Ossetia has all signs of independent state - vice speaker
58. South Ossetia is a part of Georgia
59. Police hindering food deliveries to South Ossetia
60. Public Defender’s report – public information is hardly accessible at MIA and prosecutor’s offices
61. Prison demolition marks "new era in human rights protection" - Georgian minister
62. Ombudsman proposes property arbitration commission
63. Georgian government urged to introduce police ID
64. Order in the jungle [excerpt]
65. Budget of the project of construction of the railway section Akhalkalaki-Kartsakhi for 2008 has been approved
66. Israelite Company fulfills construction works in Igoeti-Gori section of speed highway
67. Kakha Benduqidze becomes member of Caton Institute international selection committee
68. Georgian nunnery in former Nicholas II’s residence is burnt

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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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