Georgia News Digest 03-27-07
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1. Russia and Diplomacy
Re "Russia's playing ball — will we?" Opinion, March 22
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-simes22mar22,1,40618...

2. Little Sweaty Fist [excerpts]
3. Russia to crack down on weapons piracy [excerpts]
4. Beheaded body Georgian found in Moscow – TV
5. Nothing to Change in Georgian-Russian Relations before Presidential Elections
6. Journalism Ignored in Georgian-Russian Relations
7. Russia faces 'difficult' WTO talks with Georgia: minister
8. Russia may join WTO in 2007--Medvedkov
9. Russian handed to countrymen after 15 years in Georgia captivity
10. Interview with NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer [excerpt]
11. Congress votes to back Ukraine, Georgia's NATO bid.
12. Is Turkey European? [excerpt]
13. Georgia to file case against Russia in European Court
14. Georgia files case against Russia
15. Georgia’s move against Russia not good for bilateral ties – FM
16. Russian migration agency dismisses Georgia's Strasbourg lawsuit
17. Russian MP urges Georgia to keep emotions under control
18. Georgia’s Lawsuit against Russia Is America’s Doing – Zhirinovsky
19. Russia can present a counter-claim against Georgia
20. At the Crossroads: Georgia's President Burns His Bridges
21. Georgian pundit says EU envoy's plan for conflicts "significant breakthrough"
22. Sixty percent of Georgians can be wrong
23. Abkhazian Vice-president and Opposition Criticize Local Media
24. Teachers in Gali district to receive salaries from April
25. Child kidnapped in Gali district-TV
26. Tbilisi Insists on Maintaining Exiled Abkhaz Government in Kodori
27. Sergey Shamba Comments on Abkhaz People’s Aspirations
28. George Welton: “Choose not to Talk about the Status”
29. Abkhazia settlement parties to discuss Kodori bombing probe results
30. Reconnaissance exercise begins in Abkhazia
31. TV Casts Doubt On Georgia's Kodori Bombing Claim
32. Two Georgians killed in South Ossetia
33. OSCE Chairman condemns shooting of Georgian policemen in zone of Georgian-Ossetian conflict
34. Dimitri Sanakoev: “The most important thing for Ossetian and Georgian parties is direct dialogue”
35. Georgia policemen killed by returned fire – S Ossetia committee
36. Ambushed by Misunderstandings: Armed Georgians Killed in South Ossetia
37. Russian Intelligence Services Stand behind Tskhinvali Incident
38. Eduard Kokoity to convene Overall Assembly of Ossetian People
39. Motorcars of Secessionist High-Ranking Officials Exploded in Tskhinvali
40. Kovalenko Mentions Tskhinvali Region as Republic
41. Mikheil Mindzaev Comments on Murdering Two Georgian Special Troops
42. Russian peacekeepers say their checkpoint fired on in South Ossetia
43. Minister blames South Ossetian authorities for killing of Georgian soldiers
44. North Ossetia head says merger with Georgia's South Ossetia inevitable
45. Georgian president announces plans for South Ossetia
46. Russia to gain from Iran-Armenia gas pipeline, energy official says [excerpt]
47. Lithuanian Formin Undersecretary To Attend Political Consultations In Georgia
48. Ankara to extend condolence to Armenia via Georgia [excerpt]
49. Perpendicular competition' in the South Caucasus?
50. South Caucasus refinery boom
51. CanArgo Energy Corporation: Georgian Operations Update and Clarification
52. Koka Kandiashvili: I’m under Real Pressure from the Government
53. Journalist Vakhtang Komakhidze Suspects He was Beaten by Representatives of Central Authorities in Adjara
54. Lawmaker Becomes Deputy Chief Prosecutor
55. New Rights Object to Announcing David Gareji Monastery Tourism Zone
56. Zurab Noghaideli to Attend Burial of Armenian Prime Minister
57. Aword-Capital and PSP Group to Build 15 New Hospitals in Georgia
58. Gela Nikolaishvili: “There is no space to stand—not just to sit, but to stand—in prison”
59. Lasha Beridze is Appointed New Commander of 2nd Brigade of DM of Georgia
60. Climate change melting glaciers [excerpt]
61. Bloody foreigners!
62. Tevdoradze welcomes Gvaramia's appointment as deputy prosecutor
63. Tbilisi pupil stabbed by classmate
64. National Forum opens regional office in Kutaisi
65. US and Russian citizen detained for illegal border crossing
66. Giorgadze trial to continue behind closed doors

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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