Tuesday, January 29, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-28-08

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1. Cabinet profiles
2. Unpopular key figures gone but not far in Saakashvili’s new cabinet
3. Georgia’s new cabinet: not the total make-over that some expected
4. Owners of Rustavi-2 and Mze might change
5. New government includes ministers who used to devour grants
6. Gurgenidze forms new government
7. Saakashvili says opposition can join government "in future"
8. Davit Gamkrelidze not eager to seriously comment on new cabinet
9. Ministerial candidate says Russia to take part in conflict settlement
10. Tbilisi calls for changing mandate of RF peacekeepers – official
11. Minister-designate on multi-vector approach to resolve conflicts
12. Will methods of conflict settlement change?
13. Ban Ki-Moon calls Georgian-Abkhazian sides on resuming confidence
14. Inaccurate media reports fuel alarm in Gali– UN Abkhaz Report
15. Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia
16. S. Ossetian settlement initiatives will promote peace in conflict zone - Russian diplomat
17. Georgian official visits breakaway region to meet separatist minister
18. Georgia not to expel Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia, S Ossetia
19. Saakashvili suggests expanding peacekeepers' mandate in conflict zones
20. Search for 23 fugitive peacekeepers in Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone continues
21. Pupils-refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia to take rest in Upper Abkhazia
22. New road map between Moscow and Tbilisi: Georgia will start re-integrating Abkhazia with church
23. Georgia, S Ossetia must sign no-war pact - Russian FM
24. S. Ossetian settlement initiatives will promote peace in conflict zone - Russian diplomat
25. There is an information vacuum in Tskhinvali region
26. MP defects from secessionist authorities in Tskhinvali
27. Georgia unveils Strategic Defense Review
28. Three cheers for Georgia’s Strategic Defense Review!
29. Mikhail Saakashvili wins an away game
30. PACE passes resolution on Georgia
31. Many PACE MPs revise their attitude to Georgia—Kosachev
32. Georgia’s President addresses PACE: Re-elected Saakashvili emerges relatively untarnished in Strasburg
33. What's in today's Russian newspapers?
34. Enlargement to the east divides Nato nations
35. Shalva Pichkhadze: there’s a danger of growing distrust towards the West!
36. America seems to care more than the European Union about eastern Europe
37. No easy road to Europe for Georgia
38. For Georgia, neutrality is not an option
39. State Department official Bryza sees room for improvement in Georgia
40. “Too early to evaluate Rose Revolution’s legacy,” says expert
41. Saakashvili speaks of relations with Russia
42. Saakashvili speaks of ‘humanizing’ Prosecutor’s Office
43. Interview: Toomas Hendrik Ilves
44. The clever strategy of foreign governments
45. Opposition pins hopes on Lavrov: At what expense is Kremlin regaining its positions?
46. Opposition mulls options
47. CEC rejected Sarishvili initiative on holding referendum
48. Okruashvili might be put in hospital due to state of health
49. Parliamentary committee on procedural issues to consider Gelbakhiani’s case on January 28
50. Labors threaten to began rallies
51. As opposition mobilizes, all actors and no audience in the president’s camp
52. Irakli Batiashvili: “Merabishvili is Saakashvili` s important background”
53. Opposition prepares joint memorandum
54. Kartuli Dasi celebrated one-year anniversary of establishing
55. Labourists threaten with protest rallies
56. Assessing the Georgian media’s role in the presidential elections
57. Imedi TV assets frozen – agency
58. Imedi TV faces suspension of broadcast license
59. Video: Rebel TV station loses property
60. Patarkatsishvili’s property, including TV station, to be sealed
61. Statement from Badri Patarkatsishvili
62. Court comments on sequestration of Patarkatsishvili’s Property
63. Japanese journalists to produce reportage on Georgian wrestling
64. There will be no impact of the incidence in Societe Generale on Georgia and Georgian Bank Republic – SG Group
65. Three bids for Poti port, free economic zone
66. Foreign trade up by 40%
67. Opposition warns against privatizing Railway
68. Five companies express interest in Georgia’s Railway
69. Georgia steps up efforts to increase tourism in 2008 as Latvia aims to attract Georgians
70. Privatization irregularities surface in Adjara as quiet investigation gets underway
71. Citrus 2007 favored Georgia
72. Environment-friendly energy project in Georgia
73. Emissions and vehicle overpopulation Threaten air quality: cleaner fuel tops the list of ‘must haves’
74. Bird flu fears after Turkey reports cases
75. The postman blues
76. Hungry horses roam Tbilisi neighborhood
77. Georgian Azerbaijanis doubt in efficiency of national minority integration in society program
78. New long range artillery launcher was paraded at inauguration
79. Orthodox Church and Georgian statehood
80. Gvaramia intends to continue reforms in penitentiary system together with Akhalaia


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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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