NEWS: Georgia News Digest 07-09-08

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Foreign relations and conflicts
1. President hails importance of US State Secretary's visit
2. US Department of State: Bombing in Abkhazia, Georgia
3. U.S. calls for international police force in Abkhazia
4. Sec. Rice Remarks en route Prague
5. Violence mars Russia-Georgia talks before Rice trip
6. Russia says Georgia whipping up tensions with separatists
7. Russia submits UN draft text critical of Georgia
8. Blasts in Abkhazia delays granting of Georgia with MAP, experts say
9. Kremlin's terrorism in Georgia
10. The Irish exception [excerpt]
11. Kissinger in a world not yet restored
12. Danish FM denounces recent blasts in Abkhazia
Abkhazia
13. Minister blames Russia for Abkhazia blasts
14. Four Chechens suspected of blasts in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia
15. Blasts in Abkhazia part of Georgia's plan
16. Terrorist attacks in Abkhazia complicate Russia's relations with Georgia
17. Abkhazia has no intention to let international police force in
18. Abkhazia rejects U.S. proposals for an international police presence
19. video: Abkhazia rejects U.S. proposal
20. Sokhumi rules out international police force
21. Separatist Georgian republic rejects U.S. proposal to deploy international forces
22. Abkhaz separatists firm to keep Russian peacekeepers
23. MP call on Russian special services to help Abkhazia
24. Georgia to take "unilateral steps" if Russian peacekeepers not replaced
South Ossetia
25. video: Georgian military detained in South Ossetia
26. Georgia denies detention of soldiers in breakaway South Ossetia
27. Georgia calls 'abduction' South Ossetian detention of four servicemen
28. Georgia accuses South Ossetian "gangs" of kidnapping four army officers
29. South Ossetia releases four Georgian officers
30. Separatist leader says Georgia isolates itself from peacekeeping process
31. S. Ossetia asks for international intervention in Georgia conflict
32. S. Ossetia says Georgia evacuating children before 'invasion'
33. We will not let combat operations begin
34. Separatist leader says Russia "irreplaceable" in conflict settlement
Politics and government
35. NDP urges Georgia to revise its position towards conflicts
36. In search of Georgia's culture of democracy
37. United Opposition’s autumn plans
38. Opposition coalition to lose state financing
39. New parliament should take human rights ombudsman seriously
40. Christian-Democrats propose partial funding of some parties
41. Ombudsman condemns new rule on party funding
42. ECHR rules partly in favor of Labor Party
43. It is true that we live in that house -- Border Police chief
44. The rise and fall of Georgia’s UAVs
Media
45. TV station complains of government pressure on advertisers
46. Opposition advocates TV Caucasus
47. Each member of the Movement for United Georgia donated 1GEL to Kavkazia
48. Journalists for free speech called upon colleagues to support Kavkasia TV
49. The Patriarchy advises the GNCC to share international experience regarding the Broadcasters’ Code of Conduct
50. Public Broadcaster to decide on airing the film made by the political opposition upon receiving the CEC’s opinion
51. Labourists call upon journalists for strikes
52. Five candidates running for GPB Board of Trustees’ single vacancy
53. Propaganda vs free speech: Ten biased televisions (programs) are better than one biased television (program)
Misc.
54. Is it true that “Georgians don’t need the Russian language?”
55. Georgia urging to eliminate Armenian Dashnaktsutun’s aggression
56. Defying Patriarch, female inmates continue hunger strike
57. Lawyers create a professional union
58. Life guards found dead body of Giorgi Mezhenadze in sea
59. Adjara reports 30 percent increase in tourists
60. 20 000 Georgians emigrated in 2007

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