Friday, May 30, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 05-30-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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Politics and elections
1. Alternative parliament will be in New Right’s office
2. Alternative parliament will morally influence the authorities
3. 39 polling stations annulled
4. Republicans say video evidence of election rigging is smoking gun
5. Bribing voters in Adjara Autonomous Republic
6. Georgian opposition plans boycott: Political standoff continues as opposition plans to boycott new parliament
7. Georgia faces internal and external crises after parliamentary election results
8. Death of Georgian democracy with parliamentary election results
9. Saakashvili’s job approval
10. MP candidate demands dismissal of GPB Director General
11. Public broadcaster chairman to stay on post
12. Lost of freedom of speech for Georgian media: Will TV companies be still censured?
Abkhazia

13. Ambassadors of EU and Javier Solana to go to Sokhumi to discuss resumption of talks with Georgia
14. EU Ambassadors to visit Abkhazia
15. European Union ambassadors arrive in Abkhazia
16. Ukrainian defence minister denies intention to send peacekeepers to Abkhazia
17. Georgia must withdraw armed units from upper Kodori – Bagapsh
18. Replacement of Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia ruled out-Bagapsh
19. Georgia's joining NATO to worsen regional situation – Bagapsh
South Ossetia
20. Blast in South Ossetian capital
21. Three people wounded in Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone shooting
22. video: Blast injures four in Georgia’s breakaway republic
23. Five injured in blast in Tskhinvali
24. Six people wounded in Tskhinvali car bomb explosion
25. South Ossetia accuses Georgia of state terrorism
26. Official denies Georgia's involvement in Tskhinvali blast
27. Georgian secret services behind Tskhinvali blast – S Ossetia leader
28. Peacekeeper rotation in South Ossetia
29. Crossfire war
Georgia-Russia and foreign relations
30. Georgia FM and US State Secretary to meet in Stockholm
31. EU creating obstacles to accession of new states - Lithuanian MEP
32. ‘EU Eastern Partnership’ project proposed
33. Georgia-Russia fight moves to Security Council
34. Russia wants Georgia separatists at U.N. council
35. UN Security Council to discuss Georgian drone dispute on May 30
36. Georgia wants UN Security Council session over drone downing
37. Georgia to take drone dispute with Russia to OSCE
38. In fallout from Georgian drone, Abkhazia analogies cut two ways, Kosovo or Chechnya
39. Russian security official discuss bilateral relations
40. Saakashvili meets Russia’s Deputy Chief of NSC
41. Saakashvili-Medvedev meeting to cover awkward ground
42. Ukraine promises assistance to GUAM partner-countries in solution of "frozen conflicts"
Misc.
43. The last tranche allocated under PRSO program of the World Bank in Georgia
44. Cost of oil products will continue increasing
45. Rustavi metallurgic plant to increase output twice in 2009
46. Badri Patarkatsishvili’s family appeals against the Tbilisi City Court verdict
47. Patarkatsishvili’s inheritance takes a pill
48. Patarkatsishvili family condemns Tbilisi Court ruling
49. Joseph Kay’s lawyer accused of drug smuggling
50. Country allocates funding to prevent natural disaster this year
51. UN Committee of the Rights of the Child reviews Georgia’s report
52. War veterans cannot enjoy benefits in Adjara
53. ”Tbilisis Amkari” held demonstration in front of the Municipality Building
54. Fiber optic cable connecting Europe, Asia disconnected in Western Georgia
55. The head of National Movement’s headquarters became hospital director
56. Tax + debts = unbearable life

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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