NEWS: Georgia News Digest 11-26-07

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1. video: You won't stop us! - opposition leader warns Saakashvili
2. No incidents happen during opposition rally in Tbilisi
3. Georgia’s opposition rallies
4. Saakashvili not blame Russia for all Georgia problems
5. Patarkatsishvili allegedly offers money to candidates to quit race
6. Saakashvili defends raid of opposition TV station
7. Saakashvili steps down, as parliament calls for early polls
8. video: Saakashvili resigns ahead of election
9. Saakashvili to run again: party leader
10. Saakashvili expected to be nominated on Rose Revolution anniversary
11. Party puts off nomination of incumbent Saakashvili, citing legal technicality
12. Ugulava called on population to support Saakashvili
13. Ruling party to nominate Saakashvili for re-election
14. Saakashvili to address new Georgian government’s first meeting
15. Georgia going through "decisive moment
16. We need a landslide victory in polls’ – Saakashvili
17. Saakashvili upbeat ahead of election campaign
18. Saakashvili instructs government to work till Jan 5 election
19. Saakashvili: Without territorial integrity and NATO my life will be meaningless
20. Georgia to become NATO candidate country in 2008 – Saakashvili
21. Polls are moment of truth for Georgia – Saakashvili
22. Saakashvili says wants to cooperate with opposition
23. Saakashvili’s statements inadmissible for leaders of opposition
24. Did Sahakashvili take a bribe?
25. Mikheil Saakashvili’s first visit as president was to Moscow not Washington
26. Presidential elections face great challenges
27. "Labourists" advise citizens to verify electoral registers
28. Parliament approves 5 January as date of snap election
29. Errors in voter lists only 1% - minister
30. Nine candidates join presidential race in Georgia - Central Election Commission
31. 9 presidential candidates ready to start collecting signatures
32. Two women run for Georgian presidency
33. Oligarchs vie for power in Georgia
34. Presidential candidate speaks for eliminating presidency
35. Opposition leader nominated for presidency
36. Gamkrelidze promises people to restore faith, honor and justice
37. New Rights endorse Gamkrelidze’s presidential bid
38. New Rights presidential candidate lays out priorities
39. Natelashvili advises Saakashvili not to run at presidential elections
40. Opposition candidate promises referendum on monarchy
41. United opposition against Mikheil Saakashvili
42. End of dialogue – united opposition unsatisfied with results
43. Opposition satisfied with meeting with Polish president
44. Court releases seven opposition activists
45. United opposition met tradesmen of Vagzali trade fair
46. Imedi may resume broadcasting under Georgian, intl laws
47. Defiant Imedi to look for justice
48. OSCE representative critical about closure of "Imedi" TV broadcasting
49. Imedi TV to be back on air soon - OSCE Media Chief
50. Popular anchor quits Imedi TV
51. Resumption of broadcasting unclear - Imedi TV executive
52. Protest rally demands Imedi TV’s broadcast resumption
53. Adamkus says Imedi should resume work for democracy election in Georgia
54. Head of suspended Georgian TV channel denies links to opposition rallies
55. British lawyers arrive in Georgia to defend businessman Patarkatsishvili
56. My week [excerpt]
57. video: Georgia vows to end ban on opposition media
58. A reliable public broadcasting system: what are the options for Georgia
59. Opposition briefed Valdas Adamkus about recent developments in Georgia
60. Georgia headed in right direction with its reforms - Lithuanian president
61. Polish president visits Georgia, urges democracy
62. All parties should get equal treatment during Georgian elections - Polish President Kaczynski
63. Despite a number of cabinet changes, "cosmetic" is the operative word
64. Regular Georgians discuss cabinet reshuffle
65. Speaker urges Georgians to unite
66. Ruling party leaders focus on social issues at congress
67. Pro-government MP, opposition differ on Georgia’s achievements
68. Authorities, opposition disagree over econ results
69. Georgian democratization process and the latest developments
70. Stocks up, value down for Saakashvili
71. Reflecting on Georgia's smoky Rose Revolution
72. Gandering at the headlines
73. A tiger at Georgia’s gate
74. Saakashvili to visit Rustavi today
75. Georgian president pardons 772 convicts
76. About 1,200 convicts to be released
77. President gave promise to double salaries of pedagogues in future
78. Staff changes in the defense ministry
79. Georgia marks four years since "Rose Revolution"
80. video: Thorns not roses? Georgia's revolution four years on
81. Glam rock band Smokie to perform in Tbilisi
82. St. George’s Day and the Rose Revolution: Before and After
83. Kars – Akhalkalaki will not influence on Armenia
84. Kars-Tbilisi-Baku link not economic but political project
85. Baku-Tbilisi-Kars: Geopolitical effect on the South Caucasian region
86. Russian analysts say oil export via Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Railway possible
87. As a "good neighbor" of Armenia, Georgia has no moral right to participate in Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku
88. Armenian Catholicos may meet leader of Caucasian Muslims department in Tbilisi
89. The authority doesn't change in Georgia but is inherited
90. Turkish university in Georgia ‘a source of pride’
91. Georgian journalists not allowed to enter Saingilo
92. Pentagon prepares Indian Ocean B-1 base for air attack on Iran [excerpt]
93. Russian embassy not invited to congress of Georgia’s ruling party
94. Russia has "not fully" honoured agreement on military bases
95. Georgia says Russia failed to fulfill military pullout obligation
96. The implications of Russia’s moratorium of the C.F.E. Treaty [excerpt]/strong>
97. Building a constructive U.S.-Russian relationship [excerpt]
98. Georgia imported 830 mln m3 of gas from Russia
99. Abkhaz reporters think Russian parliamentary elections to be a farce and plan to ignore them
100. Minister slams Russia for backing separatist regions
101. Moscow urges Tbilisi to comply with UN resolution in upper Kodori
102. Lavrov, UN top official discuss Kosovo, Georgia-Abkhazia conflict
103. There’s more thunder from the Kremlin than rain: Is Moscow getting ready to recognize Abkhazia?
104. Malkhaz Akishbaia to hold meetings at UN headquarters
105. Kodori trap: Russians are dragging us into new adventure
106. Abkhaz leader calls on residents of Gali district to accept Abkhaz passports
107. TV reports murder of ethnic Georgian woman in breakaway Abkhazia
108. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister meets S. Ossetian leader
109. Russia criticizes Georgia for creating alternative South Ossetian ...
110. Greenoak's failed privatization dreams
111. No to cash registers?
112. Georgian Stock Exchange interests Europe
113. "KazTransGas Tbilisi" to award natural gas voucher to patriarchy
114. PM to meet investors in London
115. Bank of Georgia GDRs down by 8%
116. WFP fish farm provides Kakheti locals with food and work
117. Institutions of internal control in Georgia: Internal police vs. internal auditing
118. Khachapuri
119. Georgian holy fathers

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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