Tuesday, January 29, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-29-08

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1. document: Strategic Defence Review: Final Report 2007 (unclassified)
2. PM hires more silver-haired people for cabinet
3. Parliamentary committees continue consideration of new staff of cabinet today
4. EastWest Institute official - Georgian PM’s favourite minister
5. Government pushes for economic package in parliament
6. New governmental program submitted to the parliament for discussion
7. Parliament discusses government’s legislative package at an accelerated pace
8. Sharashidze reckons economic growth key priority
9. Divided country: Saakashvili or Gachechiladze? What do the people think?
10. Kvitashvili plans to create consultation committee on health care system
11. Labor Party demands nullification of step tariff on power from government
12. Labor Party accuses power company of machination
13. Shalva Natelashvili to be sent in Vienna for medical care
14. “People’s Party” accuses opposition in deal with authority
15. People's Party accuses opposition of agreement with administration
16. Tycoon tells of plot to kill him in London
17. MPs sanction arrest of tycoon's campaign head
18. Georgian opposition held meeting with representatives of diplomatic corps
19. Public Defender to request president to release Shalva Ramishvili
20. Memorials of Sandro Girgvliani and Irina Enukidze opened in Shardeni Street 21. Giorgi Kapanadze: ‘Public Broadcaster must be impartial and objective’
22. Call for applicants: P.B. Board members replaced every two years
23. Irakli Batiashvili: ‘Problems must be solved peacefully’
24. The Kremlin wises up [excerpt]
25. Georgia, RF may settle relations by mutual compromises
26. editorial cartoon—Russian embargo
27. Georgia's exports to Russia down 30% to $53 mln in 2007
28. Double standards for Kosovo’ – Gogi Khutsishvili
29. Shamba gives no details of Bagapsh’s visit to Moscow
30. Iakobashvili evaluates Shamba’s statement as prudence of Abkhazian side
31. Iakobashvili responds to Shamba
32. Iakobashvili: “Sokhumi and Tskhinvali face carefulness”
33. ‘Reintegration’ in ministry name angers Sokhumi
34. South Ossetian separatist minister says West "biased" in favour of Georgia
35. Press center established in Java Administration
36. Georgian Railway heads for the private sector: Opposition objecting to privatization
37. Term for temporary administration in Standard Bank is extended for 1 month
38. “November standoff … a wet blanket for investors” - Esben Emborg
39. Helping financial media move forward
40. High time for Georgian consumers
41. Catholicos-Patriarch – In press we do not see good done by humans
42. Working in Georgia - ‘Stimulating, and never dull’: Interview with His Excellency Denis Keefe
43. Everything cannot be settled by breaking in and shooting
44. Money trap for money collectors
45. What became the reason for the resignation of Shida Kartli regional governor?-
46. Fight for positions and neglected people
47. Journalists are "voluntary trafficked victims"
48. It took only 13 seconds to vote at Sagarejo polling stations
49. Nostalgia or unbearable living conditions-Dukhobors abandon villages in Ninotsminda District
50. Argument among journalists ended with the fine of 2 000 Lari
51. Employment program provides temporary stability

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Jonathan Kulick, Ph.D., Director of Studies, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 3a Chitadze, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia (Republic),
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