Georgia News Digest 12-29-06

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by Ph.D. Jonathan Kulick, Director of Studies

1. Abkhazian troops put on partial high alert – FM
2. UNOMIG Concerned Over Gali
3. Abkhaz troops on alert over tensions in conflict zone – Bagapsh
4. Georgia demands Russia peacekeepers help in Gali settlement
5. Abkhaz police harassing Georgians in Gali District - Georgian TV
6. Abkhaz official denies reports on police harassing Georgians in Gali
7. Georgia replaces chief military observer in Abkhazia conflict zone
8. Georgian minister condemns Abkhaz police actions in Gali District
9. Georgian Foreign Ministry Summons Russian Envoy Over Abkhazia Events
10. According to Georgian administration of relatives of killed Alik Khishba plan pogroms
11. Informal meeting of co-chairman of JCC to be held in Tskhinvali- Popov
12. Mission Extended For Estonian Officer On OSCE Mission In South Ossetia
13. Georgian minister meets pro-Georgian “government” of South Ossetia
14. Russia overestimates its foreign policy achievements
15. 2006 : A Watershed Period for Russia [excerpt]
16. Tbilisi celebrates Russian army’s evacuation
17. Georgia is strengthening democratic belt around Russia [Burjanadze interview]
18. Russians Open Two New Outposts On Border With Georgia
19. Tbilisi considers that Putin should visit Georgia, while admitting that such a visit is impossible as yet
20. Baku partnership with Turkey and Georgia threatens to turn into friendship against Russia
21. Gazprom claims Georgia’s share up to 1.46 billion cubic metres
22. Russia as Georgia’s main gas supplier hard to stomach
23. The opposition states that Turkey was giving the natural gas to Georgia in return of Turkish-Meskhs arrival
24. Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku project contradicts Georgia’s interests
25. Georgian embassies will be opened in Baltic States
26. Strategist: Georgia on path of innovation
27. Berdzenishvili rebukes majority of parliament
28. Opposition criticizes expropriation amendments
29. Demographics of Georgia catastrophic
30. Changes envisaging simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections made to Constitution of Georgia
31. Georgian parliament ratifies agreement on Turkish grant for army
32. Public Defender Believes in Sanctions Against Those Who Refuse to Provide Public Information
33. Public Defender: Tax Privileges for Press should be Extended
34. Press prepare to pay taxes
35. The number of socially vulnerable people increases in Georgia
36. Composers and booksellers soon to be homeless
37. 112 000 of the poorest families to receive state assistance
38. Price on imports only increased by 2.4 percent
39. Vimpelcom Puts Into Technical Exploitation Network In Georgia
40. thesis: Constructional Morphology: The Georgian Version
41. Estonia Formin Gives Eur 122,000 To Help Computerize Georgia’s Schools
42. My Yesterday’s Saturday
43. Love Is Pregnancy
44. Buying One’s Baby: sometimes the price is too expensive

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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