NEWS: Georgia News Digest 11-27-07

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1. Ready or not, Georgia’s election season kicks off
2. Lithuanian president prompts Georgia to organize clear, democratic elections
3. Electoral threats
4. Georgian government to work efficiently and successfully during elections
5. Georgia to hold Jan 5 election in peaceful, democratic, free atmosphere
6. Burjanadze calls for calm ahead of 5 January snap poll
7. video: Magnificent seven run for Georgian presidency
8. CEC accepts 22 applications for 5 January presidential poll
9. CEC receives applications from 22 presidential candidates
10. Another opposition candidate set to run in presidential election
11. Irakli Tsereteli supports candidature of Shalva Natelashvili at presidential elections
12. Registered Azerbaijani candidate for presidential elections in Georgia
13. Patarkatsishvili files for presidential run
14. Gia Maisashvili: ‘I will become the new president of Georgia’
15. Gachechiladze says victory certain
16. Fugitive billionaire set for Georgia presidential polls
17. Gachechiladze says victory certain
18. Levan Gachechiladze do not believes other opposition candidates as competitors
19. Mikheil Saakashvili: from tomorrow I launch pre-election campaign
20. Presidential programs emerge as Saakashvili prepares for resignation
21. Saakashvili woos the people
22. Saakashvili comments on high-profile murder case
23. President Saakashvili meets Saburtalo district residents
24. Saakashvili bids for second term" "We are idealists, we are maximalists"
25. People shouldn't believe Okruashvili's single word – Saakashvili
26. Miklos Haraszti - I see Georgian government is willing to restore Imedi TV
27. Saakashvili sets conditions to Imedi TV
28. News Corp Executive Vice President visits Tbilisi
29. Giorgi Targamadze considers the popular journalists’ decision on quitting Imedi TV as a mistake
30. Imedi may resume broadcasting under Georgian, intl laws
31. NGOs call for Imedi TV to be put back on air
32. PM in talks with Imedi co-owner News Corp.
33. VIG to suffer usd 3.5 million loss from cancelled ads
34. Grigolia, Khoperia and Targamadze have to leave Imedi?
35. New Prime Minister outlines priorities
36. The prime minister’s presentation at the Assembly of the United National Movement
37. Burjanadze moves to presidential wing
38. Acting President Burjanadze addresses nation
39. Opposition leaders revive street protest strategy
40. MP urges probe into dispersal of November protests
41. Subari accuses Kheviashvili of negligence
42. No incidents happen during opposition rally in Tbilisi
43. Young oppositionists held action outside Tbilisi City Court
44. Gelbakhiani denies talks with Ivanishvili
45. Legal proceedings on case of Irakli Okruashvili and Dimitri Kitoshvili to resume on Monday
46. Jondi Baghaturia: the opposition must stick together
47. Irakli Batiashvili is innocent. Why would he ask for amnesty?’
48. New draft budget of Georgia for 2008 to be ready during 10 days
49. Special parliamentary session to be held on Thursday
50. Georgia referendum to include NATO membership question
51. Georgia to hold plebiscite on NATO accession
52. Introduction of another changes and amendments to state budget 2007 to begin
53. He never promised us a rose garden
54. Georgia on his mind
55. A tale of two color revolutions
56. A risky move
57. report: Georgia’s power sector: Energy crossroads in uncertain transition
58. Gasoline prices rise by another 5 tetri
59. Georgia’s natural gas supplies
60. Azerbaijani-Georgian border commission to meet by end of the year
61. Kars-Akhalkalaki-Baku not economic but military-political project
62. More farmers receive MCG grants
63. Georgia's performance? Millenium Challenge Corporation's meta-index
64. 40 percent of Georgian citrus fruit will go to export
65. Do business and politics mix? How bankers fare as Prime Ministers
66. Georgian-made wine receives Belgian OSCAR
67. Economic situation now more difficult to improve
68. The west must resist Putin's claim on the old Soviet space [excerpt]
69. Where is Russia heading? [excerpt]
70. Lavrov comments on ties with Georgia, Kosovo
71. Lavrov slams Georgia's actions as anti-Russian
72. Lavrov criticizes Georgia's unfriendly stance on Russia
73. Russians are preparing Abkhaz for attack on Kodori
74. Kokoyty, new OSCE head discuss South Ossetian conflict
75. Russians in Abkhazia take part in early state Duma voting
76. Bagapsh urges Abkhazia Georgians to boycott snap election
77. CIS to rotate peacekeepers in Georgian conflict zone Dec. 5-10
78. Press summary for Abkhazia 20-26 nov 07
79. Civil reception of National Archives of Georgia opened
80. About 100 residents of Iormuganlo village received IDs and passports
81. Police arrested suspect of robbery and murder of policeman in Leselidze Street
82. National Assembly of Georgian Azerbaijanis threatens to close roads
83. President’s initiative on amnesty connected to risk
84. Tehran - 2007 [excerpt]

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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