Georgia News Digest 05-01-07
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1. working paper: Price adjustment under the table: Evidence on efficiency-enhancing corruption Daniel Levy Emory Univ., January 2007 paper at www.economics.emory.edu/Working_Papers/wp/levy_06_05_paper.pdf

2. Democracy may die [excerpt]
3. Official Says Position Unchanged On Russian WTO Negotiations
4. Georgian Diaspora Against "Memorial": An Unexpected Turn in Case against Postal Blockade of Georgia
5. Georgia Strives to Strengten its Image as "a Reliable Ally"
6. Georgia: Brussels on its mind
7. Moscow should not Presume Existence of Frozen Conflicts will Prevent NATO-membership of post-Soviet Countries
8. EU Eyes Georgia’s Energy Transit Potential
9. EU, Georgia discuss energy cooperation
10. EU: Oil Cooperation With Georgia Needed
11. Georgia Seeks to Promote its Interests through BSEC
12. Georgia and EU play endgame on frozen conflicts
13. Russian Official, Abkhaz Leader Meet in Moscow
14. Sokhumi Unwilling to Resume Talks with Tbilisi
15. Russian Cossack forces training to defend Georgia's breakaway republic
16. Press summary for Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia 24-30 Apr 07
17. Abkhaz Media Center Personnel Organize Protest Action
18. Kokoity condemns Georgia's "fascist" regime
19. Georgian Chief Prosecutor to Visit Azerbaijan
20. International Bank of Azerbaijan Set to Support Key Regional Projects
21. Armenia cannot replace Georgian wine on Russian market
22. Fist quarter figures show deepening relationship with Turkey, Ukraine
23. Georgian troops to guard Iraq-Iran border
24. US destroyer makes port call in ex-Soviet Georgia
25. Saakashvili Speaks of Progress in Georgian Armed Forces
26. Mikheil Saakashvili Delivered Speech at Vaziani Base In Relation to 16th Anniversary of Georgian Armed Forces
27. Georgia Without Forests – Bleak Future or Reality?
28. NGOs rally at the Environmental Ministry
29. Georgia Leases Forests, Amid Protests
30. Violence in the Name of Motherhood
31. Ombudsman against the Ministry of Refugees
32. Labor Party of Georgia to Hold Large-Scale Protest Rally on May 10
33. Georgian Trade Union will held protest procession today
34. Burjanadze Meets Government Officials over Property Issues
35. TSU students have conflict
36. Opposition pension law voted down, but wins support of senior government lawmakers
37. Batiashvili's detention extended, but no verdict in treason case
38. Subari to appeal to president
39. Georgian Armenians Observe Anniversary of "Armenian Genocide", Recognition Remains Controversial
40. Prime Minister discharged from Saint Luke Hospital in Houston
41. Increased gas tariff come into force on 1 May
42. Rv. Lekhura floods land areas in Kaspi
43. Republicans demand dissolving local government of Gori ahead of schedule
44. Don't ask the experts
45. President calls for economic revolution in Guria
46. Village of Ghoresha to get first school in ten years
47. GEL 450 000 to participate in Eurovision Song Contest

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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