Georgia News Digest 04-13-07

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. For Whom The Doors Slam
2. Georgian Foreign Ministry Welcomes USA NATO Freedom Consolidation Act
3. Maxim Shevchenko: "Washington’s policy aims at destabilizing Eurasia" [excerpt]
4. Press Roundtable with Edward R. Murrow Journalist Exchange Participants [excerpts]
5. U.S. seeks to antagonize post-Soviet states - Russian expert
6. Diplomats and Scholars Share Insights on the Caucasus and Russia's Resurgence
7. OSCE secretary general: If Kosovo announces its independence, Russia can recognize Abkhazia independence
8. Russian TV Talk Show Looks At Immigrants In Moscow
9. Moscow Enlists Post-Soviet Secessionist Leaders To Pressure The UN Security Council
10. Pullout of Russia's Batumi base starts May - top Army officer
11. Russia amends schedule of hardware withdrawal from Georgian base
12. Georgian Officials Comment on the News Spread by Mass Media Outlets about Probable Reinterment of Griboedov
13. Georgian Speaker Denies Reports Of Plans To Move Russian Poet's Remains
14. Georgian officials criticize proposal to rebury Russian poet
15. Fight against monuments - futureless, dangerous affair – speaker
16. Georgia parliament speaker dismisses motion to rebury Griboyedov
17. Whatever happened to Kukly? [excerpt]
18. Ukraine Crisis Looms Large [excerpt]
19. Georgia's debt to Kazakhstan will be restructured
20. Azerbaijan Stopped Supplying Natural Gas to Georgia
21. Davit Gareji will never be given to Azerbaijan
22. Georgia Shows Interest In Iran-Armenia Gas Pipeline
23. Georgia never to join an alliance with Muslim countries against Christian country
24. Kodori attack raises many questions
25. Georgia gets a rocket: Beware Russian gunships that pass in the night
26. UN tape from Abkhazia includes Transnistria in independence appeal
27. Village in Abkhazia's Gal district comes under Georgian gunfire
28. Lithuanian Peacemakers Not Welcome In Abkhazia -- Region's Parlt Speaker
29. Georgian envoy touts support of UN Security Council on Abkhazia conflict
30. Press summary for Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia 3-9 Apr 07
31. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Slams US Denial Of Visa To Abkhaz Envoy
32. Abkhazia rejects Georgian proposal, denies Bagapsh poisoning
33. Georgian official denies reports on Abkhazian village shelling
34. Abkhazia's Pres hopes to get out of hostpital by weekend
35. Interim admin not to help settle Georgia-S Ossetia conflict
36. South Ossetian leader warns envoys against contacts with pro-Georgian government
37. Georgia calls for demilitarization after "act of provocation" in South Ossetia
38. Shooting reported in Georgian-held village in South Ossetia, none injured
39. Eduard Kokoity Banns Ties with Sanakoev's Authorities
40. Antadze Evaluates Military Provocation Carried Out In Kurta As Attempt To Disrupt Peacekeeping Processes
41. Kokoity Warns Everybody To Refrain From Holding Dialogue With Sanakoev’s "Puppet" Government
42. Saakashvili Makes New Move In Geopolitical Chess Match Over South Ossetia
43. Shida Kartli Culture Department Blames Journalists for Spreading Disinformation
44. Khidasheli, Khaindrava refuse to pay court fines
45. Burjanadze objects imposing tax on zones of cultural heritage
46. Conservative Party demands amendment to election code
47. No staff reshuffles within Prosecutor General's office – Gvaramia
48. Natelashvili drives president crazy-poll
49. Newly Appointed Judges Presented In Supreme Court Of Georgia
50. Sozar Sobari: "Prisoners are most terribly treated in Kutaisi prisons #2 and #6"
51. Who will Take Care of the Brothers – Romanian Grandma or Father, the Georgian Citizen?
52. In Reply to Journalist’s Protest
53. Fraudulent Promises and Deceived Personnel
54. Trafficked Victim Died
55. Cleaning up the Kura: The major river in the southern Caucasus seems to be everyone’s dumping ground
56. Life After Stardom [excerpt]
57. report: The 2006 Economic and Product Market
58. Motsonelidze Elected Rector of Georgia Technical University
59. New Energy in Georgian Construction Boom
60. April 9 – a day of mourning and celebration
61. Tbilisi airport suffers power outage
62. Davit Gareji should not become an open tourism zone – poll
63. Azoti have been put into operation at full capacity
64. New railway was opened in Gori
65. Peace Square" to be built
66. Meeting of Georgian Diaspora will be held in Ukraine

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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