Georgia News Digest 05-04-07

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1. Russian official says moratorium on CFE treaty will hold until others ratify
2. briefing paper: Statehood and Governance: Challenges in Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus
Jörn Gräving holt German Development Institute, February 2007 paper at http://tinyurl.com/2f9qhn

3. U.S. Radar In Georgia Would Be Able To Monitor Russian ICBM Test-fires
4. U.S. backs Estonia amid ongoing war memorial dispute with Russia [excerpt]
5. To Die For Tallinn [excerpt]
6. Georgian MP criticizes Russia's policy towards Estonia
7. Russian Paper Lists Zhirinovskiy Among Protesters Outside Estonian Embassy [excerpt]
8. Russia-Estonia friction worsens [excerpt]
9. Parliamentary Elections In Abkhazia: Opposition On The Rise?
10. Radio HARA Looks Forward to Meeting Audience Again
11. Personal Battlefields [excerpt]
12. Bagapsh Calls on Tbilisi to Release Abkhaz Official
13. Tbilisi urges Sukhumi to release detained students
14. Abkhazia to free Georgia students, after Tbilisi releases Sigua-FM
15. Student Rallies Continue on Enguri Bridge
16. Sokhumi Releases Georgian Students
17. President Saakashvili met the parents of arrested Georgian activists
18. Burjanadze to Meet S. Ossetian Alternative Leader
19. Ruling Party MPs Meet S. Ossetian Alternative Leader
20. Ruling party appeal to political forces and population of South Ossetia
21. Members of Parliamentary Majority to arrive in conflict zone
22. Georgian Ruling Party MPs Visit South Ossetia, Meet Pro-Tbilisi Leader
23. Georgia Boosts Iraq Deployment: President hopes extra deployment will help secure NATO membership
24. Defence Ministry likely to receive one quarter of state budget
25. More military money could be curse as well as blessing
26. Defense Spending: Soaring and Covert
27. US Navy Missile Cruiser Moors in Batumi
28. Storm clouds over TSU self governing body
29. The Smell of Decaying Literature: TSU librarians’ search for funding battles the clock
30. Energy Price Rise Rattles Georgia: Government blamed for not limiting steep increase in gas price
31. Opposition Party Leader – One of the Televisions Preparing Report Against Imedi TV Founder
32. Labour party of Georgia sends dozens of uninvestigated cases of murders to international court
33. New rules for party financing
34. New rules for party financing
35. Conservatives object to increase of Education Ministry funding
36. Foreign Diplomats Advise Nino Burjanadze to Reduce Election Threshold
37. People's Party leader meets population
38. Position and Opposition Fail to Agree on the Issue of Declaration
39. Accused for Stealing a Bed Urges to be Judged Soon
40. Amnesty International to monitor Batiashvili case
41. Jondi Baghaturia held protest in Rustavi
42. Interior ministry official sentenced to preliminary imprisonment
43. President Is Expected To Reply to Insulted National Minorities
44. Public Defender’s Reaction on President’s Initiative
45. Dramaturgy Changed: Lifelong prisoner Gvichiani and Deputy Minister Kekua may swap places
46. Employers’ Association and ILO Push for Adoption of Socially Sensitive Restructuring Model
47. Trade Union Confederation Celebrates May Day
48. Education campaign raises avian influenza awareness in Georgia’s schools
49. ХХII Conference of Managing Directors of Railway Companies Held in Tbilisi


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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