Monday, February 11, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-11-08

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1. report: Georgia’s state policy in the electricity sector: Brief history and ongoing processes
2. report: Reciprocity or the higher ground? The treatment of ethnic Russians in Georgia after the “spy scandal” of 2006
3. report: No way out: An assessment of the Romani community in Georgia
4. report: Growing apart? A tale of two republics: Estonia and Georgia
5. paper: Defining civil war by examining post-soviet conflicts
6. paper: Speaking for/against/from the inside: The uses of American studies
7. paper: The political is personal: Corruption, clientelism, patronage, informal practices and post-communism [excerpt]
8. paper: Reluctant terrorists? Transcaucasian social-democracy, 1901–1909
9. paper: Hazardous alcohol drinking in the former Soviet Union: A cross-sectional study of eight countries
10. paper: “The knight in panther’s skin”: Meetings with G. Chogoshvili
11. paper: Protests and reputation
12. paper: Modern at last? Variety of weak states in the post-Soviet world
13. Parliament Chairman of Georgia to set up special working group on election code
14. Burjanadze meets election watchdogs
15. Minister of Labor, Health Care and Social Affairs visited Medical University
16. Davit Berdzenishvili advises Minister of Internal Affairs to resign
17. Justice Minister promised juvenile consumptives to improve living conditions
18. National service of non-custodial punishments and probation holds round table on problems
19. Opposition suspends talks
20. Opposition halts negotiations with government
21. Opposition, parliament majority embark on talks
22. Opposition still undecided on halting dialogue with authorities
23. No tangible results yet as government-opposition talks drag on
24. Authorities, opposition accuse each other of thwarting dialogue
25. Opposition set to continue protests despite talks with government
26. Burdzhanadze urges Georgian opposition to avoid ultimatums
27. Speaker says opposition's decision to halt dialogue "strange"
28. Burjanadze: Opposition’s decision incomprehensible
29. New rival on the opposition market: Election list is the Achilles’ heel of the opposition
30. Labor Party refuses to sign opposition memorandum
31. Opposition demands release of more than 40 prisoners
32. One point of opposition’s memorandum discussed at Bezhashvili’s study
33. Georgian United Opposition submits request for protest action
34. Opposition to submit statement regarding rally scheduled for February 15
35. Opposition preparing for rallies
36. “Young Christian-Democrats” officially established
37. Members of “Movement for United Georgia” left for Paris
38. IDPs hold rally
39. Refugees residing in Varketili district to hold rally today
40. Issue of flats of refugees residing in Varketili district to be settled in several days
41. Subari asks Prosecutor General to study the actions of GNCC against TV Station “Imedi” on November 7
42. “Discussion” magazine thrown out from Zugdidi Municipality building
43. Regional TV companies urge government and opposition to not involve Commission in negotiations
44. Opposition: Authorities don’t want to make a decision in connection with Public Broadcasting
45. Protest rally held in front of tv channel “Kavkasia”
46. Ex-Imedi anchor stages political comeback
47. Tbilisi, Tallinn build educational links
48. Estonian business delegation pays official visit to Georgia
49. Delegation of Defense Ministry attended ministerial in Lithuania
50. US Election and Georgia. Will Washington's policy change?
51. Saakashvili to pay official visit to USA on March 19-20
52. USA once again states about its support to Georgia’s integration in NATO
53. US Senator backs Georgia's further integration into NATO
54. European judges to be invited to consider cases
55. EU official calls on Tbilisi to address election shortcomings
56. Saakashvili to address session on Challenges to European Stability
57. Reports on gunmen in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge "provocation"
58. Georgia denies allegations about militants in Pankisi Gorge
59. Gabashvili denies statement of Russian side on Chechen guerillas in Pankisi Gorge
60. Still more messy relations between Georgia and Russia
61. Moscow doesn't understand the need for accurate statistics -- or provide them [excerpt]
62. Georgia seeks to maintain constructive coop with RF
63. Church shows the way toward warmer ties with Moscow
64. Senior Russian MP suggests to Georgia step to normalize relations
65. Georgia should sign deal on non-use of force against Abkhazia. S. Ossetia to start normalizing relations with Russia
66. US, Georgia presidents to discuss Abkhazia, Ossetia conflicts
67. Russian CGS Baluyevskiy writes on General Staff history, mission, CFE [excerpt]
68. Will Kosovo independence open Pandora’s box in the Caucasus?
69. Saakashvili declines to directly comment on Kosovo's independence
70. No blows likely over Kosovo split, but chill between Russia and West seen deepening
71. Let's avoid another Kosovo crisis [excerpt]
72. Russia prepares to face that its border with Georgia will become border with NATO
73. Russian-Georgian flirt not understood in Sokhumi
74. Georgia creates council for conflict settlement with opposition participation
75. Georgian minister willing to discuss lifting of economic sanctions from Abkhazia
76. Georgia offers olive branch to breakaway regions
77. Separatist minister demands withdrawal of Georgian troops from Upper Abkhazia
78. Abkhaz separatist minister meets German, UK ambassadors
79. Minister ready for comprehensive dialogue with Abkhazia
80. Separatist Abkhaz minister slams Georgia for driving talks to a "deadlock"
81. Abkhazia won't integrate into Europe thru Georgia
82. Sukhumi dialog with Georgian Reintegration Ministry is pointless
83. Russia comments on planned UN meeting on Abkhazia conflict
84. Saakashvili rejects Kosovo comparisons with Georgian separatists
85. Separatists voice new allegations
86. Abkhazia suggests search for new ways of conflict settlement
87. Businessmen awarded in Abkhazia
88. Construction materials for Olympiad in Sochi to be supplied from Abkhazia
89. Abkhazian wines reappear on Russian market
90. Criminal charges filed against former minister of de facto South Ossetia administration
91. Amendments to law "On National Bank of Georgia" are unacceptable as they do not correspond to constitution -
92. Controversy over proposed central bank reform
93. ICC Georgia Board of Directors meets Chairperson of Parliament
94. ICC warns against street demonstrations
95. Georgian fertiliser firm plans more investment
96. Way to Europe may lie via Baku-Batumi- Constants: Head of Rompetrol
97. “Telasi” to cover cost of consumed electricity of St. Trinity Cathedral in 2008
98. Trade-Industrial Chamber of Georgia to assist Georgian companies to find business partners in Czech Republic
99. Warehouse segment has biggest prospect on real estate market, says Deloitte & Touche
100. Debt payments of this year to be postponed in terms of "cheap loan" program
101. Tailors’ tales: Closing of historic consumer service market leaves small businesspeople without a permanent home
102. US puts Georgian author's invention in practice
103. Family of murdered politician, scientist rally at Caucasus TV
104. Family of murdered boy demand meeting with president
105. Integrating ethnic minorities: The need for a coherent policy
106. The Meskhetian Turks at a crossroads
107. Armenian bishop : Georgia does not recognize genocide because of its dependence on Turkey and Azerbaija"
108. Armenian bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan: "Armenians in Georgia are treated better than Azerbaijanis"
109. David has place among the elect
110. Movie to reenact Georgia’s battlefield successes

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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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