EUROPA:

The EU's relations with Georgia

Overview
Latest news: ENPI Country Strategy Paper 2007-2013 & National Indicative Programme 2007-2010 adopted 07/03/07

ENPI National Indicative Programme 2007-2010

Previous news:
€2 million in humanitarian aid for victims of the Abkhazia conflict in Georgia 14/12/06
ENP Action Plan for Georgia 14/11/06
‘Frozen Conflicts’: Transnistria, South-Ossetia, and the Russian-Georgian disputespeech by B. Ferrero-Waldner 25/10/06
President Barroso and Commissioner Ferrero-Waldner to meet Georgian Prime Minister 29/11/05
€4 million to victims of Abkhazia/Georgia conflict 27/08/04

Basic Data
Independence: 9 April 1991 (from Soviet Union)
Constitution: adopted 17 October 1995 (amended on 4 February 2004)
Legal System: based on civil law system
Suffrage: 18 years of age: universal
Executive Branch: President Mikheil Saakashvili (elected as president on 4 January, inaugurated on 25 January 2004) The president is elected for a five-year-term and is both the chief of state and head of government; Prime Minister: Zurab Zhvania; Cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers
Legislative Branch: unicameral Supreme Council (235 seats, members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year-terms); Speaker of Parliament: Nino Burjanadze; last elections held on 28 March 2004
Government type: republic
Capital: T'bilisi
Population: 4,934,413 (July 2003 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.52% (2003 est.)
Birth rate: 11.79 births/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Death rate: 14.71 deaths/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 64.76 years male: 61.33 years, female: 68.36 years (2003 est.)
Net migration rate: -2.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2003 est.)
Ethnic groups: Georgian 70.1%, Armenian 8.1%, Russian 6.3%, Azeri 5.7%, Ossetian 3%, Abkhaz 1.8%, other 5%
Religions: Georgian Orthodox 65%, Muslim 11%, Russian Orthodox 10%, Armenian Apostolic 8%, unknown 6%
Languages: Georgian 71% (official), Russian 9%, Armenian 7%, Azeri 6%, other 7%: Note: Abkhaz is the official language in Abkhazia
GDP - purchasing power parity : $16.05 billion (2002 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 5.4% (2002 est.)
GDP – per capita: purchasing power parity - $3,200 (2001 est.)
Population below poverty line: 54% (2001 est.)


SOURCE:

http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/georgia/intro/index.htm

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An Outlaw

By Chabua Amiredjibi

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An Outlaw Summary: 1996 Nobel Prize nominee, a famous Georgian writer Chabua Amiredjibi is a briliant representative of contemporary Georgian literature. His novel "An Outlaw", (original title: Data Tutashkhia) is translated and published into world's 29 languages. As a critic says: "Chabua Amiredjibi's work is a restless quest for the essence of the human existence...". The reader will enjoy both adventure and philosophical sides of this true masterpiece on the background of the beginning of 20th century Georgia.

Reader Review: Amazing story of Data Tutashia - The Outlaw - written by one of the best writers of the XXth Century. I am glad to see it made available in English. I myself read in Romanian a long time ago. I liked it so much I took the book with me when I immigrated to the US twelve years ago. I still read it once in a while, and it's still just as incredible. I highly recommend it.

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