Georgia News Digest 02-20-07
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1. Talking Tough to Stay in Power [excerpt]
2. The EU, Russia and Georgia – A Lesson from the Tangerine Crisis
3. Enriched uranium case appeal hearing to resume on 23 February
4. Russia undecided about UNSC vote on Kosovo independence - envoy [excerpt]
5. Official Says NATO Only Path For Georgia's Development Despite Russia's "Tricks"
6. German, Georgian FMs discuss normalizing Georgia-Russia relations
7. German Foreign Minister Visits Georgia
8. Leo Platvoet: I am not sure my report will be discussed in PACE spring session
9. CE Commissioner For Human Rights Reminded That Georgia Had To Resolve Issue Of Meskhets' Return
10. Georgian PM holds talks in Kuwait on hydropower plant, highway construction
11. Dubai World to invest 700m dollars in Georgia's new free economic zone – TV
12. Kuwait to invest in highway construction in Georgia
13. Tbilisi Meeting Of Armenian-Georgian Border Demarcation And Delimitation Commission
14. Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline goes to pieces?
15. Council of Europe commissioner visits separatist and Georgian backed authorities in conflict zones
16. Abkhazian Journalists’ Union Asked the Local Media to Be “Professionally Responsible”
17. The State That Isn’t There
18. “Our Choice is Georgia” – Demonstration on The Enguri Bridge
19. Georgian students stage protest at Abkhazia checkpoint
20. Detainees Will be Tried At the End of the Month in Abkhazia
21. Georgian pundit predicts 'major success' for Abkhaz leader's rival in elections
22. Georgian Official Condemns Latest Abkhaz Military Exercise
23. South Ossetia condemns European delegation's meeting with pro-Georgian leader
24. S. Ossetia condemns meeting with alternative president
25. S. Ossetia Condemns CoE Official’s Meeting with ‘Alternative Leader’
26. Saakashvili wants disco in conflict zone
27. Georgian village fired on in South Ossetia conflict zone – agency
28. Georgian paper urges government to address Ossetian "fears" and "expectations"
29. TV Station “Imedi’s” Director General: Public Broadcasting Enjoys Greenhouse Conditions
30. State Minister Swore at Journalists
31. Bendukidze thinks the Labour Party are crazy
32. Sweet Friday
33. “We Will Have Digitized Armenian Films That bear Little Relation To Their Originals” [excerpt]
34. Ruling Party not Unanimous on Probe into Murder Cases
35. Ruling party fails opposition's 'test'
36. Controversy on first president's grave continues
37. Lustration Amid Stalin Debates
38. Twelve Families Illegally Settled In Erekle Str. №3 To Be Resettled
39. Opposition Interested In Lawfulness Of “Jeep” Owned By Mikheil Kareli
40. Lomaia Demands Correction Of TV Reports About Homeless Children
41. Nearly 350 Blind People from Batumi No Longer Receive Allowances
42. Employees of the Uflistsikhe Museum Demand the Frozen Salaries
43. Mentally Disabled Person Blames Police for Suppression
44. Demonstrators Demanded Gas Supply in Gurjaani
45. A textbook case in social integration
46. Taxing work ahead at the department
47. 'Civic patriotism' is easier said than done
48. Pirate petrol still a problem

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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