NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-19-08

service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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Kosovo and Conflict Zones
1. Stir it up: Kosovo is a textbook example of the law of unintended consequences
2. Recognition of Georgia's breakaway regions not in Russia's interests
3. Russian MP says Kosovo sets precedent for breakaway South Ossetia, Abkhazia
4. video: Kosovo independence to spark chain reaction in Caucasus?
5. Kosovo should serve as a wake-up call
6. Moscow wary with CIS separatists
7. We're no worse than Kosovo say ex-Soviet separatists
8. A taste of troubles to come?
9. Medvedev sees no unresolved problems with Georgia
10. Putin annual press conference [excerpts]
11. video: Russia denies nationhood deals with Georgia's breakaway regions
12. Russia may open representations in Abkhazia, S. Ossetia
13. video: First Kosovo... now South Ossetia & Abkhazia?
14. De facto leaders on Kosovo
15. Gryzlov, Bagapsh, Kokoity discuss Kosovo’s independence
16. Kosovo independence emboldens South Caucasus breakaway republics
17. Pro-Putin party leader meets Bagapsh, Kokoity
18. Abkhazia might recognize Kosovo independence
19. Leader of Abkhazia complains about embargo against it
20. Gryzlov, Bagapsh, Kokoity discuss Kosovo's independence
21. Abkhazia set to ask Russia to recognize its independence
22. Abkhaz president wants embargo of his republic to be lifted
23. South Ossetia's independence not far away, deputy speaker tells Russian TV
24. South Ossetian official comments on Kosovo's independence
25. Ossetian abducted at "illegal" Georgian post - separatist website
26. South Ossetia to send out appeals on recognition by end-Feb
27. Saakashvili warns against provocation following Kosovo independence
28. Combat operations could begin in Kosovo
29. Kosovo's comparison to Georgia's breakaway regions "groundless" – speakr
30. Roundup of Georgian reaction to Kosovo independence
31. Opposition advises Georgian authorities on Kosovo's independence
32. MPs brush off separatist claims that Kosovo will set precedent
33. MPs say Kosovo no precedent for Georgia's breakaway regions
34. Gurgenidze hopes Kosovo won't hinder improvement of ties with Russia
35. Georgia unlikely to recognise Kosovo: FM

Other News
36. letter to editors of Harvard International Review
37. Georgia applies for official NATO MAP: What are the chances?
38. report: BTI ranking: Georgia behind the Ukraine
39. Elections and new amendments may transform parliament structure
40. Opposition demands/ruling party’s response
41. Opposition begins registration of supporters
42. Opposition intensifies public protests: ‘If Saakashvili wants a revolution, he will get one.’
43. Rustavi 2 is terminating professional relations with Levan Gachehciladze
44. Opposition demands partially met as six ‘political prisoners’ freed
45. video: The west discredited itself by recognising Saakashvili’s victory
46. Levan Tarkhnishvili thinks he is innocent
47. Well known figures question Patarkatsishvili’s death
48. Tycoon’s death raises issue of rebuilding trust in Georgia
49. Patarkatsishvili a major influence on Georgia, even after death
50. Russian talk show ponders death of Georgian opposition leader
51. Presentation of presidential program to be held soon
52. President demands faster issuing of passports in regions
53. Regional governors tasked with local development projects
54. Govt launches reforms in Department of Statistics
55. Justice Minister charged with task of prison demolition
56. Drug dealer faces a life sentence
57. Ethnic groups in Georgia # 2 –Jews
58. video: Ethnic Russians back home to fight population decline
59. The embargo on reality: Georgians, Russians, the business world and la-la land
60. Georgia delegation to Moscow to discuss econ relations with Russia
61. Analyst warns against new Dagestan road
62. Construction biz
63. Instability depresses sales, but home builders still optimistic
64. Railway stirs further debate
65. Questions arise about initiative to offer tax credit to new enterprises
66. Same world, different oyster: Globalisation at local level
67. Transport tariff revenue more than doubles in five years

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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