Monday, January 14, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-14-08

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ELECTION and AFTERMATH
1. Thousands rally in Georgia against Saakashvili
2. video: Opposition demonstrate for new ballot
3. video: Rally against Georgia poll result
4. Thousands protest in Georgia
5. Opposition vows to keep protesting against election results
6. audio: Opposition supporters protest, demand recount
7. video: Georgia's opposition back on the streets
8. Opposition denies PM post offered to Gachechiladze
9. report: Presidential election: Summaries of reports by international, domestic election observers & official results
10. Some good, some shenanigans observers report
11. Saakashvili re-elected as CEC approves final vote tally
12. Saakashvili’s lead now irreversible in Georgia ’s presidential vote-counting
13. Georgian press quotes on results of 5 January presidential polls
14. CEC turns down complaints
15. Serious changes not possible in preliminary data
16. CEC head denies ‘falsified vote summary protocol’ allegations
17. Courts begin to discuss election violations
18. Courts turn down most of election complaints
19. Courts annul vote counts at seven polling stations
20. Trash talking: Georgian NGO activist claims to find proof of electoral fraud in CEC garbage bin
21. Election watchdog slams CEC
22. GYLA appeals to the Court
23. NGO head accuses electoral bodies of ignoring complaints
24. Election monitoring results: Essentially consistent with most international standards, but significant challenges
25. Opposition calls for second round of presidential polls
26. Ballot fraud museum
27. Twenty-nine suits alleging vote rigging filed with Georgian courts
28. Labor Party demands repeat polls
29. Opposition leader refuses to reconcile himself to election results
30. No justice, no peace
31. If a runoff in the presidential election is held, Gachechiladze and Saakashvili will split the vote!
32. Election notebook: A day in the life of a Batumi polling station
33. Activist pours cold water on election assessments
34. United Council representative quarreled with GPB anchors for 10 minutes
35. Authorities don't 'steal' victory from opposition-Bryza
36. Opposition MP lashes out at OSCE observers, businessmen
37. OSCE'S different evaluations of the presidential election in Georgia show the structure to be in a crisis
38. Boden's confession to become trump card of Georgian opposition—Markov
39. Dieter Boden summoned to Foreign Ministry
40. Shalva Natelashvili met with Dieter Boden
41. Dieter Boden did not confirm accuracy of information released in German press
42. ODIHR observation mission in Georgia head invited to Foreign Ministry for explanations (Part 2)
43. Pardoned opposition figure says there are political prisoners in Georgia
44. US support for Saakashvili may turn Georgians against west – Gamqrelidze
45. Businessman faces charges in Tbilisi
46. Patarkatsishvili is sure to see Gachechiladze as next president
47. Patarkatsishvili denies accusations of General Prosecutor’s Office
48. Team members of Badri Patarkatsishvili met Dieter Boden
49. Patarkatsishvili rails against "Saakashvili regime"
50. Patarkatsishvili spokesman interrogated at Georgian Interior Ministry
51. Patarkatsishvili entourage says campaign headquarters attacked in Tbilisi
52. Imedi TV to resume broadcasts next week
53. Imedi TV head and several journalists leave channel
54. Key Imedi TV figure quits
55. Okruashvili goes on hunger strike to protest against election ‘falsifications’
56. Eka Beselia left for France regarding Okruashvili’s case
57. Batiashvili released from custody
58. Saakashvili ready for dialogue with opposition – Bakradze
59. Saakashvili denies bargaining with radical opposition
60. Saakashvili says he is ready for dialogue with opposition
61. Bakradze confirms meeting between Gachechiladze and Saakashvili
62. Burjanadze: Meeting between Saakashvili and Gachechiladze is important positive step
63. Saakashvili comments meeting with Gachechiladze
64. I met with Saakashvili’ – Gachechiladze
65. Davit Bakradze: there are many decent people in the opposition
66. Saakashvili meets ruling Party MPs
67. video: Saakashvili resumes leader’s role in Georgia
68. Government to begin fulfilling promises of Saakashvili from tomorrow
69. Saakashvili sounds conciliatory note toward Russia, regrets spoiled relations
70. Saakashvili vows to fight poverty, mend Russia ties
71. Less foreign trips, more local focus – Saakashvili
72. Saakashvili's inauguration ceremony to be held Jan 20 or 21
73. About 8 presidents to attend Saakashvili's inauguration
74. President of Turkmenistan expected at inauguration
75. Gurgenidze to leave for Austria within working visit
76. Acting President pardons opposition politician
77. Saakashvili’s wife arrives in Baku
78. Sukhumi accuses Georgian media of disseminating disinformation
79. Georgian-Abkhaz dialogue under Saakashvili has no future

NATO
80. Georgia aspires to earn an entrance ticket to NATO
81. 70 percent of Georgians vote for joining NATO in a referendum
82. The only game in town: 61% support integration into the North-Atlantic Alliance
83. Baramidze: Georgia given opportunity to make one more step towards NATO
84. Europe to lose from Georgia accession to NATO - German professor
85. Politician proposes referendum on country's neutral status
86. Sarishvili to gather signatures for referendum
87. Georgia has no chance unless Ukraine joins NATO
88. Plebiscite outcomes hardly to speed up Georgia’s accession to NATO
89. Too early to talk about dates for Georgia to join NATO - Bryza
90. Scheffer: We have an intensified dialogue with Ukraine and Georgia
91. Russia's envoy to NATO calls Georgian plebiscite on NATO membership mistake
92. Referendum on NATO fires separatist sentiment, says Russian NATO envoy
93. Georgia will be unable to join NATO - Russian analyst
94. paper: Georgia’s Railway to NATO Passes Through Turkey

COMMENTARY
95. A matter of image
96. Weekly experts panel: Georgia’s vote
97. Rekindling the beacon
98. Surviving the investment “pause”
99. If the opposition fails to achieve anything now, its popularity will wane
100. Cold snap doesn’t touch political temperature
101. With new political landscape, can stability prevail?
102. video: Interview: Evgeny Kozhokin
103. video: Interview: Eduard Shevarnadze
104. How Saakashvili was made president
105. The biggest mistake

OTHER NEWS
106. paper: Georgia: Energy Policy
107. Wanted: A new source of heat
108. Pipeline puzzle
109. Georgian energy barons gather to analyze oil market operation of last four years
110. National Investment Agency welcomes new business to Georgia
111. Our goal is to return Israel to leading positions in Georgian economy
112. Dhabi Group – building a bridge between Georgia and Middle East
113. International military exercises to be held in Georgia in summer
114. Army receives American self-loading rifles
115. Georgian police purchased Turkish 'Cobras'
116. Georgian borderlands
117. Baby, it’s cold outside
118. Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Affairs to dissolve the drug agency
119. MIA initiates reduction of fines on certain rules of traffic movement
120. Press summary for Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia
121. Georgian x-tmas tree in America
122. “Didgory’s Battle” to be made in Hollywood
123. Anti-Semitic newspaper distributed in Tbilisi
124. Lawmaker responds to rumored rift with Patriarch

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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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