Georgia News Digest 04-14-07
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1. report: Institutions Of Internal Control In Georgia: Internal Police Vs. Internal Auditing
2. report: Fighting Unemployment In Georgia
3. report: Property Rights In Post-Revolutionary Georgia
4. report: Georgia As A European Neighbour: Privileges And Responsibilities
5. Georgian Officials Meet Russian Ambassador
6. Russia Withdraws Military Equipment from Akhalkalaki
7. Russia Won't Use Alternative Fuel For Very Long Time - Economist [excerpt]
8. Russian Poet's Resting Place in Tbilisi Questioned
9. Nino Burjanadze Guarantees that Remains of Alexander Griboedov won't Be Reburied from Mtatsminda Pantheon
10. Georgian speaker explains official position on Russian poet's grave
11. Revolutions in former Soviet republics haven't failed or really succeeded analysts say
12. Ukrainian Prominent MP Discusses Support For New Wing Of Opposition [excerpt]
13. Ukraine: Did West Pull Up Stakes Too Soon? [excerpt]
14. Polish President to Visit Georgia
15. Georgian Finance Minister Visits U.S.
16. Security Council extends United Nations Mission in Georgia until 15 October, unanimously adopting resolution 1752
17. Security Council votes unanimously to extend U.N. observer mission in Georgia
18. Georgian Envoy Touts Support Of UN Security Council On Abkhazia Conflict
19. Abkhazia Certain To Reject New 'Peace Plan'
20. Abkhaz representative unnecessary at UN SecCouncil – Tbilisi
21. UN resolution is another step in Abkhaz settlement – Tbilisi
22. UN Is Becoming More Active: Tbilisi hopes the new UN document is more "effective"
23. Georgia's UN Envoy Comments on UN Resolution
24. Shamba Calls for Equal Status
25. Abkhaz Checkpoint Shot Out from Mortars in Otobaia Village
26. Tbilisi Condemns Shelling in South Ossetian Conflict Zone
27. Opposition Leader Calls for Talks with Kokoity and Sanakoev
28. MPs Pass Draft Law on S. Ossetia with Final Hearing
29. Tskhinvali Condemns Creation of South Ossetian Administration
30. South Ossetia says Georgia's dialogue with "puppet" government has no future
31. Gentrification without Justification: New draft bill before Parliament
32. US Expresses Alarm at Georgia’s Recent Human Rights Record
33. Twenty Prisoners Pardoned for Easter
34. Georgian Patriarch considers the existing situation to be unsatisfactory at prisons
35. Population Opposes New Tax Initiative to Rehabilitate Old Neighborhoods
36. Renovation through Eviction: Are Increased Land Taxes the Only Solution for Old Tbilisi?
37. New Government Creates New Elite
38. Coffee and Mayhem Redux: The Tax Inspection’s Aggressive Re-Investigation of Nikala
39. IFC Announces New Corporate Governance Project
40. Redefining Development or the Same Old Same Old? Local Report Critical of MCC Georgia
41. USAID and World Bank Honor Reformers of Business Environment: Zurab Nogaideli Recognized as Top Reformer
42. Gia Khukhashvili: Increase Of Tariff On Municipal Service Will Create Unbearable Conditions For Population
43. The question connected with tax for water and installation of new counters will be discussed by Assembly Hall today
44. Famous People Will Vanish After Taxes
45. Needle Exchange Helps Educate both Users and the General Population
46. Adjaran Anti-Drug Activities
47. Monument Contest Continues as Judges Find Original Entries Too Depressing
48. TSMU: More Than Just a Medical University
49. Fate of 900 Students Hangs in the Balance as TSU Zugdidi Branch Faces Closure
50. Secrets of April 9
51. Georgia's ethnic Armenians demand regional language status for Armenian
52. Man convicted of assassination attempt on Bush wants to convert to Islam
53. Shalva Natelashvili Calls on Society for Overall Strike
54. Patriotic Camp Construction Started in Ganmukhuri Village
55. Prisoners of Pankisi Gorge
56. Budget Accommodation in Tbilisi: Irina’s place: more than just a guesthouse
57. NPR Comes to GIPA: Fresh Air and Morning/Weekend Edition now broadcast locally
58. Letter of Broadcasting Company "Hereti" To Human Rights Center
59. Boarders of the Government
60. Red Herrings and Red Eggs

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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