Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Georgia News Digest 03-06-07
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Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies
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1. chapter: "Enough! Kmara And The Rose Revolution In Georgia" [intro]
Giorgi Kandelaki and Giorgi Meladze
in Joerg Forbrig and Pavol Demeš, eds., 2007, Reclaiming Democracy: Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe, German Marshall Fund of the United States, pp. 101–126.
[many other Georgia references throughout the book]
book at
www.gmfus.org/template/download.cfm?document=/doc/ReclaimingDemocracy...
2. Russia’s Illiberal “Liberal Empire”
3. Global Anti-Missile Superiority [excerpt]
4. Georgian pundits see possible benefits in hosting US missile defence system
5. US Plans For Caucasus Radar Station
6. Suspicious Frankness: Washington is starting a new arms race [excerpt]
7. A Caucasus Radar: American missile defense will extend to Russia's southern borders
8. Tbilisi is willing to consider question of deploying US radar in Caucasus
9. Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia to Return to Georgia from Moscow Today
10. Russias attempt to bully Georgia may backfire
11. Russian Peacekeepers Are Insufficiently Neutral: Tbilisi tries to replace peacekeepers again
12. Prime Minister: Details of reburying remains of Zviad Gamsakhurdia can be discussed only after examination
13. Gamsakhurdia's remains "found in Grozny"
14. Tbilisi keeps quiet about date of Gamsakhrudia’s reburial
15. Russia will help Georgia rebury its first president
16. PM: Details of reburying remains of Zviad Gamsakhurdia can be discussed only after examination
17. Giorgi Baramidze To Visit France
18. Gas Talks With Turkey Suspended Indefinitely
19. Brussels Offers Tbilisi A Carrot: What they told Saakashvili at NATO headquarters
20. EU visa regime may be simplified
21. To Tbilisi With Love: Viktor Yushchenko visited his old comrade-in-arms
22. Saakashvili Visits Kazakhstan, Japan
23. Kazakhstan to build oil refinery in Georgia: Nazarbayev
24. Declaration by Presidency on behalf of the EU concerning the recent so-called "Parliamentary elections" in Abkhazia
25. Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia on the so-called elections held in Abkhazia, Georgia 26. Latvia does not recognize parliamentary elections in Abkhazia
27. U.S. Rejects Abkhaz Elections
28. Abkhazia Stumbles at Polls
29. Conflicting reports over Abkhaz elections
30. Nearly half of parliamentary seats contested in breakaway Georgian region head for run-offs 31. Gali: A Key Test Case For Georgia’s Separatist Abkhazia Region
32. Repeated voting to be held in half of Abkhazia constituencies
33. Three Deputies of Armenian Nationality to be in New Abkhazian Parliament
34. Birthing Pains of Independence: Elections in Abkhazia are Recognized only by Self-Declared Republics
35. Rebel Georgian area upbeat after inconclusive vote
36. Georgia denies opening fire on Ossetian village, police post
37. Tbilisi doctors and Sanokoyev's government provide free treatment in South Ossetia
38. People of South Ossetia for Peace express concern about events in Abkhazia
39. Dmitri Sanakoyev creates new organization
40. Opposition Demands Resignation of Minister of Internal Affairs after TV Station “Imedi” Aired a Scandalous TV Story
41. Georgian opposition demand resignations following broadcast of prison tape
42. Pro-Government MPs Dismiss Opposition Calls For Minister's Resignation
43. Taped Conversation Mounts Pressure on Prison System Chief
44. Taped conversation alleges official involvement in prison riot
45. Deficiency of Food and Medicine in Kutaisi Prison
46. Georgia's path to freedom
47. Mikhail Saakashvili Implements Benefits And Privileges For Officers
48. Patarkatsishvili Shuns Politics, Sells Major Businesses in Georgia
49. Gas deal goes up in smoke
50. Georgia to see several new oil refineries
51. Ten Examples of Governmental Harassment
52. Telavi Is Governed By a Person with Criminal Record
53. Kidnappers of Old Grigol Nonikashvili Arrested
54. Policeman Severely Beat Innocent Man
55. Environmental Health Disaster looms in Abastumani
56. Abolishment of the Transport Regulation Commission Might Result Into Unemployment of Hundreds of Sailors
57. Peasants Are not Allowed to Privatize Their Lands at the Seaside in Adjara
58. Keep Tbilisi tidy... or else!

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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

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