NEWS: Georgia News Digest 03-18-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. video: Opposition vs Saakashvili: Tug-of-war continues
2. Opposition rally in Tbilisi draws about 6,000 people
3. Opposition to protest outside U.S. Embassy
4. Opposition vows to continue hunger strike
5. Over dozen hunger strikers hospitalized in Georgia
6. Another participant of hunger strike outside Georgian parliament hospitalized
7. Hunger strike will marginalize opposition
8. Young oppositionists rally outside Speaker's house
9. Opposition says speaker should resign
10. Georgia’s iron lady – new target for opposition
11. New Rights rule out dialogue with Burjanadze
12. Burjanadze responds to demands for her resignation
13. Speaker says opposition's resignation demand "unserious"
14. Constitutional amendments create new rift between authorities, opposition
15. Giorgi Maissashvili forwards new initiative
16. MP leaves party
17. Republicans bring back chief financier
18. Tsotne Bakuria: ‘I would return anytime if I knew they wouldn’t kill me’
19. Fugitive Russian tycoon intends to engage in Georgian politics
20. Changes resulting from Constitution amendments
21. Irakli Okruashvili to head his founded party
22. Majority of poll participants against new president elections
23. Tbilisi campers should look to Minsk, Yerevan
24. Head of Georgian Orthodox Church calls for unity amidst political tension
25. Russian top diplomat warns Tbilisi against NATO membership
26. Georgia's NATO drive should be contained – Karasin
27. A pessimistic prognosis for Bucharest
28. Sharing radar data with NATO a ‘big breakthrough’ for Georgia
29. Georgian, Romanian speakers discuss elections, NATO
30. Nino Burjanadze and Nicolae Vacaroiu discussed cooperation between two countries
31. Romania to send watchdogs for parliamentary elections in Georgia
32. Political situation In South Caucasus to be discussed in Tbilisi
33. Latvia and Georgia will begin close cooperation on environmental issues
34. Georgian Israelis to Merkel: Don't block NATO entry
35. Saakashvili-Putin meeting reported positive, yet results imply worsening relations
36. Georgian president affirms 'vital significance' of Washington negotiations
37. Saakashvili travels to the U.S. to restore his image
38. Mikheil Saakashvili’s comment on the recent events
39. After Kosovo, the deluge
40. Russia embarks on dangerous game of diplomatic chicken
41. Russian MPs to press government on rebel regions
42. Russia and the Caucasus knot: Prospects for a sovereignty parade
43. Russian parliament committee urges Kremlin to consider recognizing Georgia's breakaway regions
44. Duma committee expert on breakaway-republic issues
45. Road map for the unrecognized
46. Duma considers 3 scenarios of cooperation with Abkhazia, S Ossetia
47. video: Russian MPs mull over breakaway regions’ recognition
48. Lifting Abkhazia sanctions will not lead to Russian arm supplies
49. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister on lifting Abkhaz sanctions
50. Georgian side should consider lifting embargo on Abkhazia-opinion
51. video: Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov on Abkhazia sanctions
52. Abkhazia press summary
53. Georgian guerillas regroup, threaten Olympic game disruption
54. Georgian Court judged Abkhaz high ranking officials
55. Gunmen torture family of Georgians in Gali district
56. Russian peacekeepers digging trenches in Abkhazia
57. Russia denies alleged plans to provide arms to Abkhazia
58. Sukhumi airport ready for emergency landings of Sochi-bound planes
59. 2+2+2 = Progress on South Ossetia
60. Kokoyty confident independence will be recognized soon
61. Separatist rep hopes Russia will recognize South Ossetia's independence
62. Georgia "incapable of constructive dialogue" - separatist leader
63. Kokoity: Tbilisi not capable of constructive talks
64. Borjomi could be first to return to Russia
65. Georgia resumes imports of Russian electricity
66. Georgian citizen against the Russian Federation
67. GPB Board of Trustees publicizes statement
68. Maestro temporarily suspended broadcast of public-political programming
69. Radio Imedi regional correspondent refutes information on being sacked from Imedi
70. Parliament shuns Public Defender’s report
71. Budget increases at the expense of drug-addicts
72. Constitutional amendments proposed to protect property rights
73. Government to start distribution of fuel on Tuesday
74. Tbilisi airport loses roof, for a second time
75. “Delayed” promised vouchers or “runaround”
76. Police seized list of supporters of the political movement “Tavisufleba”
77. The Government of Georgia approved funding of two extra projects under the program of cheap credits
78. EU allotted 5m eur to Georgia
79. Construction of wheat terminal in Poti to start in near future
80. paper: European energy security: The South Caucasus option
81. Georgia offers Azerbaijan involvement in investment projects in exchange for gas price decrease
82. Georgia to complete talks on gas imports
83. photo gallery: Homeless Greeks of Georgia (by Justyna Mielnikiewicz)
84. Roma people blame law enforcers for suppressing them on ethnic grounds
85. Forgotten deported people
86. The special school for cerebral palsy is suffering due to a lack of water
87. Demonstration of employed women
88. I will not give up my land even if I need to appeal to Strasbourg Court
89. Not guilty findings in Batumi
90. A territory of population which was sold out
91. Burjanadze -the most successful women in Georgia
92. FlamingoLand boss checks out ride in war zone
93. Babies in Georgian prisons receive much-needed supplies
94. Mikheil Kareli’s health condition is critical
95. Jachvliani’s Svani earns international acclaim

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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