NEWS: Georgia News Digest 08-01-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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Russia and conflicts
1. Only Russia do not want to resolve conflicts
2. Georgia will not fulfill recommendation by Russia
3. Georgians, Chechens, Ossetians and Ingushes protest in front of Russian Embassy
4. Abkhaz government-in-exile demands admission of Georgian media into territory controlled by Sokhumi authorities
5. Russian railroad troops complete mission in Abkhazia
6. Bagapsh rules out direct talks with Tbilisi
7. Abkhaz leader says no direct talks with Georgia in Berlin for now
8. Tbilisi accuses Russia of ‘stalling for time’ on Abkhazia talks
9. Conflicting statements made amid preparations for Georgian-Abkhaz Berlin meeting
10. Minister says meeting with Abkhaz in Berlin in August "unrealistic"
11. Security Council’s scheduled squabble
12. Russia slams Georgian reaction to UN Secretary-General's report on Abkhazia
13. S. Ossetia threatens Georgia with irrigation cut-off
14. S. Ossetia confirms setting up military fortifications
15. Russia behind "aggressive" proposal by S. Ossetia
16. OSCE says fire opened from separatist-held area in South Ossetia
Misc.
17. Results of cabinet meeting
18. Economy Ministry official arrested
19. Top officials arrested for bribe-taking
20. Ex-governor released from custody in France, awaits extradition hearing
21. The United Opposition will continue to fight for Imedi
22. Public Defender demands Batumi prosecutor to investigate case of journalists’ intimidation
23. Public Defender calls for probe into newspaper ‘intimidation’
24. Cooperation between Latvian and Georgian border guards intensified
25. Georgian military men to go through training in Romania
26. Georgia will not reduce number of its soldiers in Iraq
27. Hand grenade kills border policeman
28. Patarkatsishvili’s second marriage may be annulled
29. Varshalomidze will move to Tbilisi
30. Armenia calls for peaceful resolution after several arrests in Georgia's Javakheti area
31. report: Georgia’s oil and gas potential: Georgia as a traditional transit country for Azeri energy resources
32. book review: 'One More Year': Emigrants from the former Soviet Union contemplate straitened lives
33. book review: Among the angry [excerpt]
34. ‘Anti-fat water’ promises to shed pounds
35. Summer in Georgia

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