Georgia News Digest 03-11-07
A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies
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1. The west must set a strategy for a resurgent Russia [excerpt]
2. Winners and Losers in the Russian-Georgian Crises
3. Has Putin Downgraded Sergey Ivanov?
4. Georgian Patriarch on "Goodwill Mission" to Russia
5. Relations between Russia and Georgia getting better-Saakashvili
6. MP says Georgia would need 5,000-strong EU force to replace Russian peacekeepers
7. American Soup
8. US to Expand Missile Defense System into Europe: The Russian response and implications
9. Georgia’s NATO aspirations
10. Georgia CIS membership no impediment for NATO entry – Saakashvili
11. Opposition, Ruling Party MPs Agree on Pro-NATO Declaration
12. Saakashvili: 2 000 Troops in Iraq, at least 100 in Afghanistan
13. Georgia Seeks NATO Host For Afghanistan Troops
14. Georgia's envoy comments over doubling peacekeepers in Iraq
15. Georgia intends to send 300 servicemen to Afghanistan
16. Deported Javakheti Armenian Again Found Guilty
17. Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway joins, divides the Caucasus
18. Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railroad not to harm Armenia
19. Armenian foreign minister: Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku Project produces negative political situation in the region
20. South Caucasian Millennium Challenge Neighbors Compare Millennium Challenge Notes
21. Jewish Community Helps Georgia And Israel Draw Closer
22. Kazakhstan - the Biggest Investor in Georgia
23. Georgian Season in Europe and the US: Using culture to prove that Georgia is as an integral part of Europe
24. Saakashvili says Georgia, Japan to work together on North Korean nuclear issue
25. State Secretary Of Latvian Defense Ministry To Visit Georgia
26. International Community Generally Denounces Abkhaz Elections
27. Spain Names Elections In Abkhazia As Illegitimate
28. State Department Regular Briefing [excerpt]
29. GUAM Condemns Elections In Abkhazia
30. Saakashvili Hails Reactions on Abkhaz Elections
31. Georgian leader says response to Abkhaz vote will dispel separatist "illusions"
32. Bagapsh Discussed Issues On Cooperation With Moscow Authorities
33. Press summary for Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia
34. Holiday In Gali – "A Nice Place to Live"
35. The View from Inside Abkhazia: British scholar offers his impressions of the conflict
36. Half of the Members of the Abkhazian Parliament Revealed
37. Where Those Reactors and Centrifuges Came From [excerpt]
38. Regulator says gas pipe construction breaks environmental law in Ossetia
39. State commission to choose location for Gamsakhurdia grave
40. Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s Alleged Remains to be Brought to Georgia on March 31
41. Repatriation of Meskhetians: An Issue to Be Handled with Care
42. Horizonti Foundation Outlines New Horizon for Ethnic Minority Integration
43. Gas Prices Set to Go Up… But by How Much?
44. Badri Patarkatsishvili Won’t be Arrested…
45. Supporting Legal Ways of Migration: The majority of Georgian emigrants are undocumented
46. City Residents who Air Laundry in Public to Be Fined
47. Wine, music, and politics in the Caucasus Mountains in the independent nation that was once part of the Soviet Union
48. Georgia Plans 100 000 Reserve Troops by 2012
49. Parliamentary Committee On Legal Issues To Hear Information On Sakvarelidze’s Case In Closed Regime
50. "Industrialists" Demand Reduction Of Costs
51. Lawyers Accuse TV Station "Imedi" of Spreading Misinformation
52. Turkish Citizen And His Georgian Accomplice Detained
53. Auction On Privatization Of "Post Of Georgia" To Be Held
54. Former Policeman Accused Of Murders Accuses Prosecutor’s Office Of Putting Pressure For Confession

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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