Friday, February 16, 2007

Now I'm back from skiing. I was absent for four days from the internet connection. In the south of Germany I have meet a german guy. He was for three years in Georgia in the Caucasus. I have got to know him there. I'm surprised to see him among scores of people.

I will give you a retrospective from the Georgia News Digest by Jonathan Kulick ... I don't forget it. Twice Georgia News Digests are comming here ...


& I missed it ... the 44.444. visit on my blog - unfortunatly.


Georgia News Digest 02-12-07 & 02-13-07
Attached PDF files easily navigable with Bookmarks pane
Archives and associated files at groups-beta.google.com/group/genews/files
02-12-07
1. conference agenda: Assoc. for the Study of Nationalities
2. Putin Speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy [excerpt]
3. Secretary General wants more countries in NATO by 2009
4. Traditionalists Union wants a referendum of Georgia's NATO membership
5. de Hoop Scheffer wants to see more countries in alliance by 2009
6. Russian Defence Minister Says NATO Broke Promises On "Military Infrastructure"
7. NATO strategic plans include enlargement with Ukraine, Georgia
8. A View from Moscow: Georgian Lessons
9. The bear with the sore head
10. Georgian carriers count the cost of the flight ban
11. The European Union And Russia—Gas Games On The Southern Flank: Different Purposes, Similar Results [excerpt]
12. Russia to monitor Georgia-Azerbaijan-Turkey deal
13. Russian MFA Comments on Azeri, Georgian, Turkish Declaration
14. The Tbilisi Declaration" On Common Vision for Regional Cooperation
15. A Monumental Thanks That's Etched in Stone
16. Transcaucasian Arm Wrestling: Ilkham Aliev is prepared for war against Armenia and for cooperation with Georgia
17. Armenian paper sees regional railway as blow to national security
18. Azeri expert says Armenians may attack regional railway
19. The Powder-Keg Of Eurasia: Militarization in the Greater Caucasus could have dangerous consequences
20. Emergencies services of Black Sea states to hold drill in Georgia
21. CoE Commissioner for Human Rights Visits Georgia
22. "Maarti Ahtisaari Is Not a Magician" US Special Envoy to Kosovo [excerpt]
23. Abkhazia Holds Local Elections
24. Georgia reduces law enforcement contingent in Kodori
25. Meeting on settling Georgia-Abkhazia conflict to be held in Geneva
26. Abkhaz separatist president visits ethnic Georgian district on polling day
27. Municipal elections in Abkhazia announced valid
28. Abkhazia to hold talks with Georgia after abducted citizens freed
29. "Conflicting Reports" On Abkhaz Local Elections In Ethnic Georgian District
30. Georgia denies alleged shooting at Tskhinvali
31. Georgian officials, businessmen discuss 900m-dollar hospital construction plan
32. "I would run for president if I had the right"-Zourabichvili
33. President steps into property row
34. When one passport isn't enough… big changes afoot at Public Register Agency
35. Education Ministry denies Technical University will be abolished
36. Inflation worrying IMF again
37. Increased budgetary revenues worries analyst
38. Georgian secondary school to close in the village of Sameba
39. film review: "Russian Triangle"
40. film review: "Russian Triangle" – an Honest Film about War
02-13-07
1. Russia, Georgia have to work hard to normalise relations
2. Russian Official Comments on Georgian Wines, Mineral Waters
3. Georgian crime boss deported from Russia
4. Saakashavili says most Georgians support accession to NATO
5. Scheffer’s Remarks Boost Georgia’s NATO Hopes, Amid Debates
6. Fairytales about NATO
7. There Shouldn’t be Russian or American Military Bases in Georgia
8. Conflicts are not our problem says Ivanov
9. Georgian Defence Minister meets NATO Secretary General
10. Parliament Postpones Voting on CIS Again
11. Georgian MPs boycott debate on secession from CIS
12. The Caucasus: where the east meets west and much, much more
13. Kars-Akhalkalaki-Baku railway project is a tool of political pressure on Armenia
14. (Almost) All Aboard
15. Armenia should look for common interests with regional neighbors
16. Georgia considers replacing Russian peacekeepers with Ukrainians – Bezhuashvili
17. Did "Gali precedent" weaken Tbilisi positions at meeting in Geneva?
18. Halvdan Skard: Local elections in Abkhazia as they have violated the principle of the territorial integrity of Georgia
19. De facto leader dismisses officials
20. Members Of UN Secretary General’s Group Of Friends To Discuss Abkhazian Conflict
21. Saakashvili Hails ‘Boycott’ of Polls by Voters in Gali
22. Sokhumi Says Elections Valid
23. Contradictory reports on local elections in Gali: de facto officials claim turnout high, Georgian media reports boycott
24. Saakashvili Visits Kurta in South Ossetian Conflict Zone
25. President arrives in conflict region
26. Incident in Tskhinvali region
27. CoE Human Rights Commissioner visits Georgia
28. U.S. Officials Visit Georgia to Discuss Business Climate
29. New Ambassadors to Netherlands and Azerbaijan Approved
30. Foreign Minister Meets Georgia’s Diplomatic Corps in Europe
31. Saakashvili to Make State of Nation Address in early March
32. Education Minister to pay official working visit to Washington
33. Labour Party needs new faces-analyst
34. Burjanadze Comments on High-Profile Murder Case
35. Opposition leader to sue MP
36. Issue Concerning Formation Of Investigation Commission Not To Be Put To Vote
37. Tskneti IDPs protest possible privatisation
38. Parliament to Set up Group on Property Rights
39. Leader of Liberty Institute: CPJ Has an Incorrect View on the Events Taking Place in Georgia
40. Editor-in-chief of Newspaper "Tavisupali Sitkva" Asks for Support
41. Badri Patarkatsishvili Compares TV and Radio Company "Imedi" to a Charity Project
42. The Pilot Programs of Georgian Patriarchate’s TV Station May be Aired from Spring
43. film review: "13 Tzameti" [excerpt]
44. Five Injured in Army Copter Crash
45. Cycling the Silk Road: Hanging with Georgian rappers in a city without manhole covers
46. Georgian women: better in business than men
47. Georgian businessmen invest in hospital programme
48. Memorandum for Madeuli: company promises to clean up its act
49. Analyst says industry, not individuals, should pay for expensive Russian gas
50. Georgian side Ameri have big dreams

full digest: Georgia News Digest - Ansicht in Groups BetaNeu!
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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