Georgia News Digest 01-24-07
A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. Russian envoy to Georgia says ties must normalize
2. Georgia Bans May Be Lifted
3. Despite Russian Ambassador’s Return, No Fresh Start For Ties With Moscow
4. Georgian minister urges "more effective" action after Russian envoy's return
5. Georgian minister downbeat on Russia ties
6. Russian ambassador returns to Georgia, hopeful of resolving problems
7. With A Stopover In Yerevan
8. Airlines capable of quick resumption of Moscow-Tbilisi flights
9. Russia expects Georgia moves towards improving relations – lawmaker
10. Russian embassy in Georgia resuming normal work - ambassador
11. Giorgi Tsagareishvili leaves parliamentary commission on deported Georgians
12. Uncertain about their future, political elites enter into direct confrontation [excerpt]
13. Georgia firm on conditions for Russian entry to WTO
14. Report against Russia
15. The long and winding road uphill to NATO
16. Bombarded With Resolutions: The Council of Europe versus Russia
17. US Senate to mull free trade agreement with Georgia
18. Russian-Georgian relations not to be discussed at PACE
19. Russian Envoy Says Ethnic Georgian's Death In Moscow Accident, Not Racist Attack
20. European Parliamentary Body Postpones Debate On Georgian-Russian Relations
21. Ethnic Georgian Killed By "Armed Youths" In Moscow – TV
22. Refugee from Abkhazia killed in Moscow
23. Increased EU involvement in conflict zones
24. Georgia assures UN of readiness to start negotiations with Abkhazia
25. Abkhaz Officials Want to Voice Position at UN
26. Tbilisi hopes for meaningful discussion of Abkhaz conflict at UN
27. Abkhaz separatists sceptical of Georgian talks offer
28. Tbilisi ready to patrol Upper Kodori gorge with peacekeepers
29. South Ossetia requests talks with Georgian officials over electricity supplies
30. Persons detained in Azerbaijan belonged to same network with GRU agents arrested in Georgia
31. Georgian Railway Chief Visits Baku
32. Aliyev To Visit Georgia – Reports
33. Georgia drafts foreign policy strategy
34. Georgia sentences ex-Adjarian leader to prison term in absentia
35. An action to protest Hrant Dink’s murder held in Akhalkalaki
36. Ukrainian journalists take a documentary film about Georgia
37. Citizen Of Georgia Trying To Smuggle 10 Grams Of Heroine Arrested At “Sarpi” Checkpoint
38. Ecumenical Prayer To Be Held In Tbilisi
39. Georgian veterans protesting against abolishment of social benefits
40. Tsereteli discusses healthcare reform
41. Giant infant born in Lagodekhi
42. Registration of candidates begins
43. OSCE and the U.S. Government to donate books and library furniture to prisons in Georgia
44. Tbilisi land prices to quintuple
45. New Tbilisi International Airport to be opened on February 7
46. Power not to be cut to Republican Hospital
47. Green Party leader sees conspiracy behind Chinese immigration

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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