NEWS: Georgia News Digest 04-10-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. List of majoritarian MP candidates
2. video: Saakashvili interview
3. report: ‘Implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy in 2007’: Progress Report
4. report: The Anatomy of the Human Rights Violation in Georgia
5. Georgia to join NATO regardless of Russia's protest – Speaker
6. Georgia, Ukraine to join NATO "by all means" – Saakashvili
7. Officials, observers upbeat on NATO summit outcome
8. Georgia, Ukraine to join NATO "by all means" – Saakashvili
9. Lavrov on NATO expansion
10. Georgian officials respond to Lavrov’s statement
11. Germany denied Georgia MAP, but in Afghanistan Georgians will fight where the Bundeswehr dares not tread...
12. Why Moscow doesn't have a lot of friends
13. Subject of exchange
14. George W. Bush's diplomacy
15. Iron curtain fades NATO focus shifts to terror [excerpt]
16. Isn't an expanded NATO better for Turkey?
17. A look at Russia drifting backward to a new Cold War [excerpt]
18. The man who came to dinner [excerpt]
19. Message to NATO: don't irk Russia [excerpt]
20. Farewell to NATO
21. Two dangerous signals from the Bucharest NATO summit
22. Need more soft power
23. Salzburg diary: 'There's no tradeoffs, period'
24. Is NATO expansion bad for Russia?
25. UK Foreign Secretary statement on NATO enlargement
26. Minister describes Russian actions as "international blackmail"
27. Russian “provocations” anger Georgia: Tbilisi accusing Moscow of trying to sabotage its bid join NATO
28. Enticing Mr Ban [excerpt]
29. Interview with UN chief Ban Ki-moon [excerpt]
30. The Kosovo precedent
31. Russia expands economic ties with Abkhazia, Georgia angry, CIS idle
32. The Abkhaz Sanakoyev project has fallen apart
33. OSCE commissioner on protection of linguistic rights in Georgia's Abkhazia
34. Shamba denies discussing Georgian proposal with OSCE commissioner
35. South Ossetia left without electricity
36. PM visits Armenia, Bahrain
37. Bokeria as Deputy Foreign Minister
38. South Caucasus is crossroads of political interests: ARFD member
39. Batiashvili submits new details of his case to European Court
40. Border Service detain two Russians and one Armenian for illegal entrance
41. Georgia sold its first international bond issue despite the global credit squeeze
42. Released Georgians to return to Georgia
43. Kakhidze returns to Israel with daughter

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