NEWS: Georgia News Digest 11-30-07

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1. upcoming event: Georgia's crisis: What's behind it and where to go from here?
2. Speech of Mr. Lado Gurgenidze, PM of Georgia, delivered at the Parliament
3. Newspaper notes new PM’s ‘first major mistake’
4. information note: Improvements to Georgia’s election code
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5. Levan Tarkhnishvili: Updated transparency, extra fairness
6. Burdzhanadze pledges to have democratic presidential election
7. Presidential marathon
8. Plebiscites: necessary questions or campaign tactics?
9. Estonia hails Georgia’s readiness to receive election observers
10. Natelashvili plans to annul post of president
11. Natelashvili backs improving ties with Russia
12. Natelashvili lays out priorities
13. Sarishvili challenges Saakashvili to debate
14. 19 remain in presidential race
15. Gamkrelidze commits to non-use of force
16. Khidasheli criticizes Estonia’s role in Tbilisi crisis
17. TV at heart of Georgian crisis: Fate of opposition television station is subject of intense political haggling
18. Opposition protests at TV stations' generous coverage of Saakashvili
19. Court sanctions financial probe into Imedi TV
20. Small TV station due back on air
21. Polish mediator meets Georgian opposition over closed TV station
22. Georgian opposition happy about meeting with Polish media ombudsman
23. Authorities want Imedi to change hands
24. Cable TV channel taken off for plans to broadcast political talk show
25. Official says government not behind suspension of cable TV
26. Official links disconnection of “Maestro” to technical problems
27. Small TV station due back on air
28. video: Georgian rebel minister faces court cliffhanger
29. video: Georgian rebel minister jailed in Germany
30. Okruashvili placed in German custody for 2 months, denied political asylum - Georgian ambassador
31. German police hold wanted former Georgian Defense Minister
32. Germany has no complaints against Okruashvili – prosecutors
33. Okruashvili's arrest in Berlin is normal juridical process
34. Ex Georgian minister, arrested in Germany, to meet with his lawyer
35. Okruashvili's lawyer preparing documents for German investigators
36. Will Lado Gurgenidze and 'Liberty Institute' find a common language?
37. Tbilisi and Washington: The end of the affair?
38. Georgian reality
39. Top Romanian diplomat confident of Georgia’s democratic orientation
40. The main two plagues in the Georgian media
41. No one in his circle spared Misha Saakashvili
42. Komninoi: Modernization of Georgia’s legislation and training of civil servants and judges
43. EP calls on Georgia to respect democratic principles and freedom of expression
44. Giorgi Manjgaladze met with representatives of member states of “Group of Friends”
45. Citizens should decide Georgia’s NATO integration
46. Interview with the Minister of Defence of Estonia, Jaak Aaviksoo
47. NATO/PfP new liaison officer
48. Georgian peacekeepers return from Kosovo
49. Putin's copycats Whether pro-western or pro-Moscow, repression, corruption flourishing in Russia's neighbours
50. Moscow is joking
51. Russia has not sent arms withdrawn from Georgia to Nagorno-Karabakh
52. If Kosovo goes free: Why Georgia's enclaves would love to follow, but will probably fail
53. Russia not to yield to Georgian provocations
54. Election maneuvering added to list of Russo-Georgian cold war shenanigans
55. Bezhuashvili hopes to discuss problems with Lavrov
56. Peacekeepers hinder Tbilisi’s hostile plans
57. Georgia accuses Russian peacekeepers of illegal arms trade, drug trafficking
58. Official Tbilisi did not give consent to Moscow to open election districts in conflict zones
59. video: Abkhazian separatists use secret German weapon
60. Ministry of Healthcare of Abkhazia to organize medical checkup for IDPs
61. Salford to address all banks in Georgia
62. BoG to start biggest CSR project ever
63. NBG supposes to soften inflation pressure in near future
64. Georgia expects changes in national state budget 2007
65. 8% inflation rate targeted for 2008
66. Government, NBG pledge to curb inflation
67. Looking for export options, Georgian businesses learn about EU Markets
68. Export - panacea for Georgian unemployment?
69. Gas fuddle
70. To drill or not to drill
71. Energo-PRO Georgia started active phase of rehabilitation works of Rustavi power grid
72. Temporary administration of NBG to spend two months at Standard Bank
73. Russia tops, South Africa last, in literacy study [excerpt]
74. Seminar held for Iranian businessmen in Georgia
75. 70 000 pedagogues to benefit form health insurance vouchers
76. Renovated historic chamber to be opened in Supreme Court of Georgia
77. Former economic adviser warns against further street unrest
78. Property registration procedure to be simplified for IDPs
79. New employment scheme to start December 5
80. Parliament passed law on amnesty
81. Psycho-rehabilitation program “Atlantis” launched in #6 Prison
82. Civil Registry has 99 percent precise database
83. The South Caucasus-Old Neighbors, New World to appear on air of radio stations of South Caucasus
84. bmi launches London-Tbilisi service
85. Thrilla in Manila: Georgian contestant cracks the great eight
86. Kids & marriage
87. Georgian holy fathers (Part Two)

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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