Georgia News Digest 02-05-07
A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. "It is better for Tbilisi not to be a headache for the White House," Nikolai Zlobin
2. Vakhtang Kikabidze - ideal candidate for Georgian Ambassador to Russia
3. Nuclear trafficking: A radioactive subject
4. Georgia, Russia Cooperate on Nuclear Smuggling
5. US and Georgia to fight nuclear smuggling together
6. Dodging doomsday, slowly
7. Georgia, U.S. Sign Deal to Combat Nuclear Smuggling
8. Georgian Officials in Moscow for Talks to Reopen Air Link
9. Georgia hopes talks on air service restoration with RF be success
10. Opposition MPs Push for ECHR Lawsuit on Deportee Cases
11. Georgian opposition wants Russia deportations challenged at European court
12. Southern Russian republic calls for more federal help in resettling migrants
13. Putin Press Conference with the Russian and Foreign Media [excerpts]
14. Interview With Arkady Baskayev, Member Of The State Duma Anticorruption Commission [excerpt]
15. Russian President’s Statement Concerning Georgian Media
16. Estonian Business Puts Out Feelers in Georgia
17. Georgia Backs Lithuanian Goal Of OSCE Presidency, Vilnius Supports Georgia's Territorial Integrity
18. Lithuania, Georgia Agree To Cooperate In Energy Security
19. Lithuania Offers Georgia To Join Ghor Provincial Reconstruction Team In Afghanistan
20. NATO, Georgia Officials Meet in Brussels
21. Georgia To Decide On Afghanistan Deployment "Soon" – Minister
22. Microfinance Journal: Changing Status Could Bring Mixed Results
23. Using US Money to Boost the SME Sector
24. Microfinance Journal: Changing Status Could Bring Mixed Results
25. Int'l human rights gig in favor of self-determination for unrecognized countries
26. Reclaiming the Kosovo precedent
27. Violence flares in South Ossetia: Breakaway region sees fourth clash in one week
28. Tskhinvali Armed Forces on High alert: Exchange of fire pushes Ossetian authorities to threaten "merciless steps"
29. Georgia, breakaway South Ossetia trade accusations over exchange of fire
30. Georgian commander accuses South Ossetia of lying over shooting
31. Georgia says Georgian village shelled by breakaway South Ossetia
32. Georgia urges separatist South Ossetia region for dialog
33. Georgia calls as disinformation claims of attack on Tskhinvali
34. S. Ossetia interior ministry claims was forced to return Georgian fire
35. South Ossetia's "alternative" president to create "public council"
36. Civilians Injured in South Ossetia Shootout
37. Bagapsh Concerned over South Ossetia Tensions
38. Abkhaz Police to Open Additional Posts in Gali
39. Shamba: Sokhumi to Focus on Kodori in Georgian-Abkhaz Talks
40. Local Official Kidnapped in Gali
41. Abkhazia deploys additional forces in border district - Georgian TV
42. Missing Abkhaz official said to be in Tbilisi-controlled Georgia
43. Tbilisi denies involvement in kidnapping of Abkhaz official
44. Abkhazia opens Enguri Bridge
45. Zurab Zhvania: "A true liberal and a democrat"
46. Saakashvili commemorates late ex-president Zhvania
47. Questions Remain Two Years after Late PM’s Death
48. Scandal in Regional Governments
49. Neo-Bolshevism in Georgia? Opposition demands Parliamentary Investigation Commission
50. Veterans’ Protest Continues
51. Quality Control Journal: Up to 70% of Locally Produced Food Products Do Not Meet International Quality Standards
52. Post-Fieldwork Reflections
53. Georgia’s Newest TV Station to be Broadcast under the Auspices of the Church
54. Sex Survey Journal: Discrepancies Abound
55. Robbed Cemeteries Stand Silent
56. Domestic Violence: New Law in Danger of being Ignored
57. Mining Notebook: Environment Ministry Attracts Investors
58. Turkish premier to sign Azeri, Georgian railway project on 7 February
59. More trouble for BP as gas scheme is halted: City will want answers to Shah Deniz shutdown projects
60. A survival manual for the kidnapped
61. Left Bank (possibly Armenian) Grilled Goodies
62. Stop Your Sniveling
63. Parliamentary opposition protests the destruction of historical monuments
64. Speculation rampant over possible railway sell off
65. Parliamentarian proposes work places in prisons
66. Georgian citrus on Swedish market

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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