NEWS: Georgia News Digest 08-07-08 (pdf)

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A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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Russia
1. Russia can play a vital role in the west’s security
2. Solzhenitsyn laid to rest at monastery [excerpt]
3. Georgia mourns death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
4. Why is Russia willing to reopen Lars checkpoint?
South Ossetia
5. No clarity over S. Ossetia talks
6. South Ossetia refuses to attend bilateral talks with Georgia
7. Georgian rebel region rejects direct talks
8. Talking through gritted teeth
9. Georgia confirms bilateral talks with S. Ossetia
10. Fate of Georgian-Ossetian talks unclear
11. Sides confirm Georgian-South Ossetian-Russian talks set for 7 August
12. South Ossetia offers to hold talks on August 9th in Tskhinvali within the framework of the JCC
13. Conflicting reports emerge of "emergency meeting" on Georgia in Russian ministry
14. Moscow undertakes efforts to defuse tensions
15. Minister says Russia wants peace
16. Deputy FM to visit Moscow
17. U.S. calls for talks over S. Ossetia
18. Latvia: Statement by Foreign Ministry in relation to situation in South Ossetia
19. Lithuanian FM would like to see EU evaluation mission in South Ossetia
20. Timeline of violence in South Ossetia since July
21. Foreign Ministry urges calm over S. Ossetia
22. Sides trade claims as Georgia tensions rise
23. Simmering dispute could turn Russia against the West
24. South Ossetia ready to explode?
25. Sides trade claims as Georgia tensions rise
26. S Ossetia fights Georgian troops out of occupied height
27. video: Georgia and South Ossetia exchange fire
28. S. Ossetia says Georgia plans military intervention this month
29. video: Georgian snipers are attacking us
30. ‘Intensive shootout’ reported in S. Ossetia
31. Georgia says it had to return South Ossetia's fire in conflict zone
32. General says no Georgians killed in South Ossetia shoot-out
33. Tskhinvali relatively quiet despite nearby battle
34. Risk of war between Georgia, South Ossetia soars
35. Russian peacekeepers deny reports of armoured vehicles in South Ossetia
36. Georgia denies its APC destroyed by S. Ossetian militia
37. More Georgian task units concentrate near Nul
38. Over 200 South Ossetian residents evacuated to neighbouring republic in Russia
39. S. Ossetia concerned about unsanctioned visits to conflict area
40. S. Ossetia will retaliate against Georgia's attempts to disrupt water supply
41. S. Ossetia accuses Georgia of destroying farm crops
42. Georgian forces trying to block road to S Ossetian villages
43. ’Kokoity Fandarast’ movement will act from September
Abkhazia
44. EU could expand role in Abkhazia conflict resolution
45. Georgia welcomes enhanced EU engagement in Abkhazia settlement
46. US military attache, separatist minister discuss Abkhazia
47. GHN news agency launched online action My Georgia Starts from Abkhazia
GHN news agency has launched My Georgia Starts from Abkhazia online action on its website http://www.ghn.ge/.
According to the organizers the goal of the action is to provide users with objective information about history of Abkhazia, relationship between Georgian authorities and the society, Abkhazian people and the conflict resolution in a peaceful way.
Anyone willing to take part in the action is free to download the banner to launch on own websites. In addition, if anyone would like to voice”My Georgia Starts from Abkhazia” should E-mail to ghn@ghn.ge.

Misc.
48. Inflation down to 9.8%
49. Georgia posts deflation of 1.2% in July
50. Low prices hurt Georgian nut farmers
51. Kazakhs show interest in Georgian vegetables
52. Health Ministry and US CDC sign agreement
53. New filters to be installed in Kaspi cement factory
54. Police arrest criminal gang
55. Water is clean on Adjara seashore
56. Former speaker "alarmed" at lack of media freedom in Georgia
57. Georgia to send 400 troops to Afghanistan by year's end
58. Adjara, Tbilisi elections slated for October
59. Anti-mine NGO visits former Russian bases
60. GPB delegation left for Beijing
61. Zviad Sichinava firmly ignores the information about the termination of the funding for the “Premier” magazine
62. Georgia, Britain to hold joint military drills in September
63. The transformation of the U.S. rulemaking process--for better or worse
64. American at last: Lorig competing for U.S.
65. Georgia on her mind
66. Georgian ballerina who went back to her roots

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