Georgia News Digest 05-08-07
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1. Editor's Note: The two conference papers included in the May 7 digest are draft papers and not intended for 2. citation or circulation.
3. book review: The war after the Cold War [excerpt]
4. Dangerous Dichotomy of Priorities [excerpt]
5. Side by Side With Romania’s Ex-President and the Secretary of the European Council
6. New Leaders Emerging on World Scene - More Chances or Challenges for Georgia?
7. Anti-Russian energy alliance seems dead before birth
8. A Soviet Memorial -- and Mind-Set [excerpt]
9. EU Should Help Solve Frozen Conflicts - Estonian President
10. Estonian, Georgian Leaders Pledge Partnership
11. Georgia, Estonia support democratic processes
12. Estonian President Thanks Georgia For Support
13. S. Ossetian Alternative Leader to Address Georgian Parliament
14. Georgian, S.Ossetian Negotiators Meet in Tskhinvali
15. Tskhinvali Says Talks Yielded no Results
16. Breakaway region says Georgia leaves no hope for conflict resolution
17. There is no negotiating partner in Georgia – Kokoity
18. Military observers attacked in Georgian-Ossetian conflict area
19. Kokoity Warns Tskhinvali May Pull Out from Already Stalled Talks
20. Saakashvili says time to move from words to deeds on South Ossetia
21. Skeptics Challenge Saakashvili’s Role in Release of Georgian Students
22. Vandals try to plunder grave of former Adzharian leader's wife
23. Soso Shatberashvili: "Very soon Saakashvili will give this territory to the Turks!"
24. Davit Zurabishvili: "Abashidze's ouster is the only merit of the Rose Revolution."
25. Everything changed for the better in Adjara-MP
26. Opposition Demands on Government Reaction Against Pressure upon Media
27. [US Ambassador] "I've got to know a number of journalists, and I think fundamentally they do a pretty good job"
28. Labor Party objects to rise of medical service costs
29. Chief of State Audit Agency Nominated
30. Leven Choladze to be appointed to position of Chairman of Chamber of Control of Georgia
31. Chamber of Control nominee "shows Burjanadze's weakness" –opposition
32. Parliamentary group discusses ex-chairman of forestry department's case
33. Only court has right to summon and question experts-Mamaladze
34. Human rights ombudsman to file complaint on prisoner's death
35. Giorgadze case resumes in Tbilisi
36. Young man killed, another injured in Tbilisi
37. Lawyer could not meet with Molashvili
38. Increase in Gas Tariff Raises Price of Bread
39. Why are we waiting for property protection?
40. First quarter figures show more US money transfers
41. Two Georgian MPs Briefly Held by Austrian Police
42. Two well-known figures in the Russian art world offer competing visions for a Boris Yeltsin monument.
43. Georgia’s Eurovision Debut
44. How Much is Your Vanity (Plate) Worth?
45. “People Want to Follow Somebody Who is Real” - Jimi Wright, Participant of The Seminar When No One Sees

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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