Georgia News Digest 04-24-07
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1. paper: Small and medium-sized enterprises in the Caucasian countries in transition
2. paper: Challenges facing the mountain peoples of the Caucasus
3. paper: Natural-water availability in Georgia
4. report: Internal Displacement Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2006
Norwegian Refugee Council, April 2007
www.reliefweb.int/rw/lib.nsf/db900SID/AMMF-72BC4K/$FILE/IDMC-idp-Apr2...

5. report: Human Rights In The OSCE Region
Int'l Helsinki Fed. for Human Rights, March 2007
www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?download=1&doc_id=7402
Endnotes
1 Eurasia Daily Monitor, Zaal Anjaparidze, “Critics press for improved judicial independence in Georgia,” 26 April 2006, at www.jamestown.org/edm/article.php?article_id=2371020.
2 Human Rights Watch World Report 2007: Georgia, at http://hrw.org/englishwr2k7/docs/ 2007/01/11/georgi14790.htm.
3 Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture: Georgia. 25/07/2006. CAT/C/GEO/CO/3. (Concluding Observations/Comments), 25 July 2006, at www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/efcb8e78926b17c8c12571cc0031d400?O....
4 See Report of the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Manfred Nowak, Mission to Georgia, E/CN.4/2006/6/Add.3, 23 September 2005, at http://daccess-ods.un.org/TMP/7024875.html.
5 Human Rights Watch, “Georgia: Prison Abuses Rife Despite Promises of Reform,” 14 September 2006, at http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/09/14/georgi14178.htm. See also the full report: Undue Punishment: Abuses against Prisoners in Georgia, September 2006, at http://hrw.org/reports/2006/georgia0906/.
6 Human Rights Watch World Report 2007: Georgia, at http://hrw.org/englishwr2k7/docs/2007/01/11/georgi14790.htm.
7 Ibid.

6. Will NATO Integration Help Ensure or Risk Georgia’s Security? Polish Experience and Public Opinion
7. U.S. cool on limitation deals, CFE with Russia - Gates
8. Russia alarmed by prospect of Georgia's NATO membership
9. Estonian President To Pay State Visit To Georgia In May
10. “Union of Georgians of Russia” Created in Moscow
11. Georgia Ready to Hand over 15 Condemned Azerbaijani Citizens to Azerbaijan
12. Caucasian Religious Leaders Travel to Gulf in Support of Economic, Cultural Ties
13. Georgian Official, EU Envoy Discuss Conflicts
14. Yeltsin's final interview blames Stalinism for unrecognized countries [excerpt]
15. Russian, U.S. Diplomats Discuss S.Ossetia, Abkhazia
16. Breakaway regions protest against Georgia's NATO bid
17. Abkhaz Official Released
18. Shamba Comments on Abkhaz Official’s Release
19. Georgian Scientist Says Armenian Diasporas in Foreign Countries Represent A Threat to Those States’ Population
20. Media Center of Abkhazia Abolished
21. Suspended five-year imprisonment was charged to Fridon Chakaberia
22. Georgian court releases Abkhaz local official convicted of drugs charges
23. Kutaisi court releases from custody Abkhazia district admin head
24. Russian Officials to Visit Tbilisi, Tskhinvali
25. Boris Chochiev Sent Letter to Merab Antadze
26. Georgian leader promises central government appointments to ethnic Ossetians
27. No talks with S. Ossetia "alternative gov't" - Russian diplomat
28. Saakashvili Offers Cooperation within New Administration of South Ossetia
29. “Educated Media” Foundation Statement
30. Journalists Memorial in France Will Bear the Names of Georgian Journalists
31. Ruling Majority Slams Republican Party Member
32. A rally to take place near Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi with demands to recognize Armenian Genocide
33. Georgian bank assets up 62% in Q1
34. Shubanese snake and Khevsurian Doctors
35. Gas Tariff Rises 30 Percent
36. Christopher Michel: “I want to bring something of vibrant Georgian poetry back to America”
37. Georgia in Focus—Worldwide
38. Social Tension Builds Up in Georgia

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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