Wednesday, January 09, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-09-08

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ELECTION RESULTS
1. Saakashvili narrowly re-elected
2. January 5 vote “democratic” – foreign observers, but opposition questions outcome
3. Saakashvili talks about elections with foreign media
4. Saakashvili promises 'all-inclusive cabinet'
5. Improvement of relations with Russia meets Georgia’s interests
6. Saakashvili says election had very few violations
7. Saakashvili signals readiness to invite opponents in cabinet
8. Tensions rise after Georgian election
9. Peacekeepers' voting in Iraq
10. There was a disagreement between activists from political parties at a Dighomi polling station

OPPOSITION RESPONSE
11. Fraudulent elections held in the Kakheti Region
12. Officials of Gurjaani DEC accused of amending protocols
13. SOS! intimidation resumes
14. Serious violations revealed in Isani-Samgori
15. Hereti journalists threatened
16. Government and opposition pressure CEC
17. I have elected the president of my country but the winner is another
18. National Movement threatens to burn down witness home
19. Bezhashvili evaluates act of opposition as pressure on CEC
20. Bezhashvili says opposition acting out "tycoon's scenario"
21. Bezhashvili condemns opposition ‘violence’ against CEC
22. Tqeshelashvili condemns opposition attempt to "blackmail" electoral body
23. Tkeshelashvili accuses leaders of opposition of pressuring and blackmailing CEC
24. Opposition accused of ‘blackmailing’ CEC
25. Gachechiladze accuses TV companies Mze, Rustavi2 and Public Broadcast of alliance with Levan Tarkhnishvili
26. Gachechiladze bursts into election chief's office, calls him "swindler"
27. Gachechiladze demands live TV air on leading stations
28. Post-election, opposition candidate claims stolen votes
29. video: Opposition: election rigged, we go on hunger strike
30. Opposition says election body stole votes
31. Opposition threatens mass demo over disputed vote
32. Opposition leaders stage protest near Public TV network
33. Leaders of united opposition to go on hunger strike tomorrow
34. Members of young opposition held action near Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB)
35. Radical opposition demands 2nd round of presidential polls
36. Opposition demonstration due on January 13-18
37. Opposition outrage over ‘TV silence’
38. Nestan Kirtadze:Today is planned the elimination of Shalva Natelashvili
39. Labour Party to join opposition protests over election results
40. Gamkrelidze spoke with Dieter Boden about violations revealed during elections
41. Gamkrelidze calls on CEC to hold second round of elections
42. Gamkrelidze calls for run-off, ‘surprised’ with international response
43. Gamqrelidze warns of unrest if run-off not held
44. Patarkatsishvili’s supporters accuse “Nationalists” of eating official complaints
45. Gelbakhiani hiding in Minsk?

OBSERVERS and FOREIGN RESPONSE
46. ‘No mass falsification’ – chief OSCE observer
47. Dieter Boden met head of CEC
48. European Parliament considers presidential election to be fair
49. NATO on Georgia’s elections
50. Mission of Observers of ICES: Most of TV channels disproportionately covered presidential candidates’ pre-election campaigns
51. How the media covered the election campaign monitoring
52. Report of the Mission of Observers of the International Expert Centre for Electoral Systems in the Presidential Elections in Georgia
53. Several foreign observing organizations evaluate elections as undemocratic
54. International observers urge Georgia to settle shortcomings in presidential election
55. Monitoring reports outline multiple violations of election code
56. Egalitarian Institute and partnering NGOs are starting a campaign of civil disobedience
57. Kocharian congratulates reelected Georgian leader
58. Telephone conversation between Azerbaijani President and Michael Saakashvili
59. Ukrainian TV channel pessimistic about Georgian election
60. Belarusian opposition politicians describe Georgia’s presidential vote as democratic
61. Senior Belarusian MP predicts no changes in ties with Georgia after election
62. Georgian polls were predictable - Tajik pundit
63. Russian state TV continues to question conduct of Georgian election
64. Abkhazia expects no changes in Georgian policy after election
65. Editor underplays Kazakh leader's congratulation on Georgian polls
66. US State Department press statement
67. Republic of Georgia election a triumph for democracy
68. Georgia's moment of truth
69. Georgia reprieve
70. An emigrant’s voice

NON-ELECTION NEWS
71. paper: Living on the Edge
72. paper: Legal Abortion Worldwide: Incidence and Recent Trends [excerpt]
73. paper: Liturgy and Revolution Part I: Georgian Baptists and the Non-violent Struggle for Democracy
74. paper: Liturgy and Revolution Part II: Radical Christianity, Radical Democracy, and Revolution in Georgia
75. paper: Abkhazia Revisited: Secular Changes in the Two Generations of Rural Children
76. Imedi TV resumption date unclear
77. Political asylum to Okruashvili to be decided by France in several days
78. Germany to extradite Georgian ex-minister to France – lawyer
79. Another jailed opposition leader to be pardoned
80. 40 Georgians remain in custody in Abkhazia
81. Ethnic Georgians detained in Abkhazia may get prison terms
82. Iran and coloured revolutions

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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

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