NEWS: Georgia News Digest 05-14-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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Conflicts
1. video: UN asked to referee spy plane row
2. Abkhazia tensions still high after EU, U.S. visits
3. Georgia’s UN envoy meets Abkhaz leader in Sokhumi
4. Abkhaz gear up for holiday season as pro-Russian mood "stronger than ever" – TV
5. Present Georgia leadership cannot settle Abkhazia conflict-view
6. Abkhazia conflict settlement impossible without direct talk-PM
7. Georgia in jeopardy
8. Russia plays Georgia’s ruling party’s war games: Why problems in conflict zones become active before elections?
9. Premier hopes bilateral ties to improve under new Russia cabinet
10. Saakashvili: Russia tries 'to revise world order’
11. Russian, U.S. presidents discuss Georgia
12. U.S.-Russia relations: looking ahead to the Medvedev administration [excerpt]
13. Washington and Moscow may reach agreement on ballistic missile defense [excerpt]
14. US diplomat applauds Lithuanian efforts in Georgia
15. Lithuanian MP calls for more active intl efforts to preserve Georgia's territorial integrity
Politics and elections
16. Opposition politicians trade barbs
17. More rights to Opposition – Saakashvili says
18. According to Badri Patarkatsishvili family, New York court forbade Joseph Kay to manage property
19. Key unauthorized person: Property of late Badri Patarkatsishvili
20. Media part of the debate in Georgian election
21. TV-monitoring results
22. Tbilisi's "policy of neglect" towards the separatist spirit of the Armenians of Georgia can be the order of the US
23. The librarians request to rescue books
24. Diary of pre-election terror
25. Young opposition members protest at presidential residence
26. British journalists join efforts of the PMMG to ensure free and fair elections in Georgia
27. Public Defender demands prosecutor’s office reaction to police activities
28. Policemen seize IDs from voters
29. Election HQs of the Republic Party raided in Kvareli
30. Police swear on their icon loyalty to ruling National Movement
31. Member of the Egalitarian Institute detrained in Telavi
32. Officials respond to Ombudsman’s voter intimidation allegations
Business
33. Socar to launch Georgian oil terminal on May 16
34. Bank of Georgia buys Belarus Bank


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