Georgia News Digest 03-29-07
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1. Putin’s Order To Create Mountain Troops Results In Competing, Haphazard Forces
2. Russian MFA Comments on Appeal of Georgia against Russia
3. Ex-Russian republic struggles for identity
4. Strasbourg case "bad news for relations"
5. Building bridges in Strasbourg
6. Georgia vs Russia lawsuit is attempt to politicize problem
7. Russian ship released after paying fine in Georgia
8. Georgia proposes new air traffic negotiations
9. Azerbaijan should pump gas to Georgia in crisis only, Azeri Energy Minister says
10. Georgia Unlikely to Get Turkmen Gas
11. Prime Ministers of Georgia, Azerbaijan Kazakhstan to Meet in Baku
12. Georgian Rail Corridor to Suffer 30% Loss – Company Warns
13. Regional railway project not to create any danger to Georgian seaports
14. Azerbaijan prepares Georgia's railway loan
15. Gilauri leaves for gas talks in Baku
16. Prime minister of Kazakhstan to discuss creating South Caucasian Transport Corridor
17. Separatists angry about proposed administrative unit
18. Sarishvili criticizes president's plan
19. Saakashvili Discusses ‘S. Ossetia Administration’ with Opposition
20. ‘Alternative S. Ossetian Authorities’ Call for Peace Conference
21. Saakashvili and opposition factions Discussed Issue for Creating Temporary Administrative Units in Tskhinvali Region
22. Russia will be the first to recognize Abkhazia – Bagapsh
23. Abkhazia Offers Russia to Host Radar in Sukhumi
24. Bezhuashvili says Georgia continues to demand peacekeeper replacement
25. Sokhumi Warns Foreign Diplomats against Visiting Upper Kodori
26. Gamsakhurdia's Body Back in Georgia
27. Georgia puts old ghosts to rest
28. Gamsakhurdia to rest in peace at last
29. Preparations Underway to Rebury Late President
30. Coffin with Gamsakhurdia remains displayed in family home
31. Russia Took into Account Humanitarian Side of Case of Zviad Gamsakhurdia – Mikheil Kaminin
32. Journalists are not Allowed into "Kolkhuri Koshki"
33. Relatives of Defendants Accused of High Treason Demand That Their Trial be Open
34. Justice or Injustice for Giorgi Zerekidze?
35. U.S. Legal Counsel for Maia Topuria Decry Decision to Close Court Proceedings to the Public
36. Representative of Public Defender: Specifics of Journalists’ Work Must be Taken into Account during Trials 37. U.S. Businessman Jailed Over Visa Trip
38. Georgia need Iashvili double to see off ten-man Faroes
39. Opposition Leaders Hail Talks with U.S. Diplomat
40. U.S. Official Meets Opposition Leaders
41. Call Up Of Reservists To Begin On March 31
42. Three metro stations to be restored in Tbilisi
43. Meeting of Georgian and French businessmen held in Paris

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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