Georgia News Digest 05-06-07
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1. video: President Saakashvili is keen for Georgia to join NATO
HARDtalk on BBC, May 1
video at http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/07/hardtalk/saakashvili30apr.ram

2. Dispatch of fourth motorcade with Russian military equipment from Georgia to Armenia scheduled on May 4
3. Flights to Russia will resume in two weeks
4. Estonian President To Leave For State Visit To Georgia
5. Georgian president, Turkish business leader discusses trade
6. Turkey donates military equipment to Georgian army
7. Eduard Kokoity Has Received no Official Application from Nino Burjanadze – Murat Jioev
8. Ex-Foreign Minister Skeptical over Tbilisi’s S. Ossetia Tactic
9. Mikheil Mindzaev Warns Georgian Authorities to Change Mind on Staging Provocations in Tskhinvali Region
10. Nino Burjanadze to Meet with Dimitri Sanakoev
11. Eduard Kokoity Entertains in Karachai-Cherkessia
12. Saakashvili to Meet S. Ossetian Alternative Leader
13. South Ossetia says Georgia's plan of equalling leader to pro-Tbilisi government to fail
14. South Ossetian minister urges security measures
15. Georgian speaker visits South Ossetia, meets pro-Tbilisi leader
16. Internal Ministry of Georgia is spreading special announcement
17. Abkhaz Leader: Release of Students Act of Goodwill
18. Tbilisi denies Georgia students release reports
19. Georgian Interior Ministry Has Never Arrested David Sigua
20. Patriot Camps will be placed in Kodory
21. Release of Georgian Students Was Good Will of Abkhaz Side – Ruslan Kishmaria
22. Georgia promises "appropriate measures" to secure release of Georgian students
23. Georgian MPs Comment On Students' Release From Abkhaz Custody
24. Abkhazia won't resume talks until govt-in-exile leaves Kodori
25. NGO's 'Apologize to the Abkhazians' campaign provokes heated debate
26. Georgia doubling defense budget – newspaper
27. Armed Forces Of Georgia Marked The 16th Anniversary
28. Senior Georgian army officer detained for illegal drug purchase
29. Russian-Language Press in Georgia Faces the Problem of Survival: Discussion
30. Burjanadze – Publishing Criticizing Material is the Main Sign of Press Freedom in Georgia
31. Fringe opposition leader targets Chinese in racist tirade
32. Burjanadze meeting rekindles election threshold issue
33. Georgian Trade Union demands eight hour working day
34. ‘Greener’s Party’ and united opposition will held the action
35. Third Marriott Planned for Rustaveli Avenue: Lingering signs of the civil war to be finally erased
36. GMT Group under Support of OPIC to Start Construction of Multi-Function Complex at the Center of the City
37. Georgia’s 2006 Fiscal Year Lauded by NBG, Criticized by Finance Committee
38. State Reclaims Iori Valley Oil and Gas
39. There Should Be No If: GRDC awaiting for its victorious day in the tender for Lisi Lake
40. Georgia Sold First Crude on World Markets
41. Opening of Batumi airport postponed to May 21
42. Young Lawyers to sue in Strasbourg court
43. Centuries on, but martyred queen's story still unfinished
44. National parks and local populations
45. Si, certo, Badagoni! Of course Badagoni!
46. American Corner Opens in Zugdidi Public Library
47. A Grey Childhood Resting on the Pavement
48. Building a Better World through Cheese: Innovative Kakheti festival calls attention to local products, boosts farmers
49. Life in Tbilisi: The Eliava Employment Market
50. Labor Party predicts growth of bread price
51. Nazarbayev Promises Economic Assistance, Urges Political Stability In Kyrgyzstan [excerpt]
52. "I try not to be too annoying": Lasha Bughadze, the bad boy of Georgian letters
53. Jazzing up Georgia
54. Keti and Bacho-the Dynamic Duo
55. The Frisky Rabbit Hops into Georgia: Playboy Georgia less than two weeks away from its national debut
56. The Eurovision Dream of a Nation

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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