NEWS: Georgia News Digest 03-26-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. Opposition ends hunger strike
2. Patriarch again urges opposition to end hunger strike
3. Opposition listens to Catholicos-Patriarch, stops hunger strike
4. Burjanadze welcomes end of hunger strike
5. Opposition vows to continue protests
6. Opposition goes hungry while government stands firm
7. Health condition of Zviad Dzidziguri is satisfactory
8. Two MPs from New Rights end hunger strike
9. video: Georgian opposition wants TV station put back on air
10. video: Opposition protests in Georgia over TV station
11. Rustavi 2 TV journalist in the center of live brawl
12. Imedi new owner delays TV reopening
13. Hope lost as Imedi saga continues
14. Restoration of Imedi depending on Ina Gudavadze and News Corp
15. Interview with Badri Patarkatsishvili’s widow
16. Brawl envelops pro-government TV crew live on air
17. Rustavi-2 call on politicians to "stop assaulting media"
18. Opposition denies attempt to hamper elections
19. Opposition activists block main thoroughfare at parliament
20. Saakashvili’s statement on opposition, elections
21. People would follow Okruashvili
22. Russia-Georgia air links to resume, but storm clouds grow
23. Georgian flight marks end of Russian air embargo
24. With flights to Moscow, Georgia hopes trade ties will again take off
25. video: Russia & Georgia restore direct flights
26. Georgia-Russia flights resume
27. Georgian singer to board first flight from Tbilisi to Moscow
28. Georgia to repay debt to Russian airlines this year
29. 12 arrested in raid on purse snatchers
30. Russia not to hinder Georgia's receiving NATO membership plan
31. Moscow eases sanctions on Georgia, but rattles sabers over NATO
32. Realpolitik resurgent?
33. Cold War II? As Russia revives, so does the battle between NATO and Russia
34. ‘Open and clear’ US support for Georgia’s MAP ambitions
35. Brzezinski: ‘US will not recognize fraudulent independence’
36. Russia’s new image and its imperialistic foreign policy regime
37. IPAP assessment document to be discussed in Brussels
38. Tone of anti-Russian remarks at Brussels forum less 'strident' than usual [excerpt]
39. Why we should fear a McCain presidency [excerpt]
40. Interview: Dmitry Medvedev [excerpt]
41. Russia has lost neutrality on Abkhazia, S. Ossetia issues
42. Terrorists' explosive device brought from Georgian territory
43. Georgian police take civilians hostages
44. JPKF, OSCE observers end probe into S Ossetia terror act
45. Georgia frees "hostages" after "decisive measures" threatened
46. Georgia-Abkhazia: Home-care for patients suffering from multiple drug-resistant tuberculosis
47. Eurosport apologises to The Georgian Times
48. Naval communication to be resumed with Russia
49. MCG: Farm service center in Marneuli
50. An MDR-TB patient in Georgia ...
51. PACE monitors to visit Georgia
52. Candidates require live transmission of vote
53. MPs to discuss article of Criminal Code
54. UNFPA sums up two-year activities in the Caucasus region
55. Ethnic groups in Georgia #7 – Azeris (part 1)
56. Akhmed Zakayev: The sole prospect of the Chechen resistance is to gain victory [excerpt]
57. Ambassador of Armenia and head of Georgian Diocese of Armenian Apostolic Church visit Samtskhe-Javakheti

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