NEWS: Georgia News Digest 12-03-07

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1. CEC launches revision of united lists of voters on Saturday
2. CEC posts rechecked voter lists
3. List of presidential hopefuls in Georgia shrinks to 18
4. Georgian presidential election: candidate profiles
5. TV reports public opinion survey ahead of polls
6. Saakashvili airs first TV ads
7. Saakashvili focuses on IDPs return to Abkhazia in campaign
8. Saakashvili campaigns in Samegrelo
9. Georgian opposition hopeful certain about victory in presidential polls
10. Pre-election headquarters of Levan Gachechiladze opened in Rustavi
11. Opposition opens election headquarters in Rustavi
12. Opposition coalition claims its activists pressured, beaten
13. Meeting between united opposition and electorate of Rustavi completed
14. Gachechiladze's says government will fail to intimidate people
15. Maisashvili to support Saakashvili at elections if latter faces businessman
16. Presidential hopeful’s ‘anti-oligarch’ remarks make headlines
17. Gamkrelidze to meet with population of Saburtalo and Chugureti Districts
18. Gamkrelidze to meet population of Gldani district with a pre-election campaign
19. Leaders of "Labourists" invited tradesmen of "Lilo" Market to participate in manifestation
20. Labourists organized presentation of election headquarters
21. Presidential hopeful Natelashvili launches campaign
22. Leader of Azerbaijani diaspora in Georgia arrested for two months
23. Appeal for arrest of representative of Azerbaijani candidate for presidential position in Georgia
24. Georgia manages secret committee, which comprises representatives of several international organizations
25. Could he lose?
26. Following unrest, Georgia looks ahead to crucial elections next year
27. Opposition evaluation of November 7 events
28. Not good enough - not good at all
29. How Georgian and Russian elections look alike
30. Saakashvili wanted to bomb Batumi?
31. Even Santa would refrain
32. Okruashvili’s team members recon extradition of Okruashvili to Georgia inadmissible
33. Okruashvili’s party applies to German government
34. Don't extradite Okruashvili - party tells Germany
35. Okruashvili’s lawyer, wife fly to Berlin
36. Journalists quit discussion
37. TV companies in talks with presidential candidates on forms of future TV debates
38. Daniel Fried anticipates Adam Michnik’s mission to be successful
39. More unanswered questions about Imedi television
40. Group warns to launch protest rallies over Imedi
41. Government faces ‘week-long deadline’ on Imedi
42. Targamadze speaks about IMEDI
43. Who will monitor media before election? CEC has said that Prime-Time company is among candidates
44. Bezhuashvili met Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
45. Bezhuashvili informed Cyprian counterpart about situation in Georgia
46. Bezhuashvili met OSCE Secretary General
47. Bezhuashvili does not agree to Lavrov’s statement regarding "anti-Russian rhetoric"
48. Georgian, Russian Foreign Ministers spar on 'Rhetoric'
49. Lavrov on Georgia
50. At UN, Abkhazia IDPs urged to cite precedents while Kosovo is distinguished
51. Duma may debate independence recognition for Georgian regions
52. Sokhumi, Gudauta, Gagra cities vote in Abkhazia
53. video: Abkhazia votes for Russian Duma
54. Book "Cultural Heritage Of Georgia – Abkhazia" published
55. South Ossetia mission: Travel notes
56. Gurgenidze to start his foreign visits from UK
57. Minister says his country cannot thrive within CIS
58. Georgia’s acting president meets Slovak foreign minister, chairman of the EU committee of ministers Jan Kubish
59. Saakashvili proposed to European judges to consider in Georgia disputes between private persons and state
60. Former Soviet republics and Turkey back economic zone in Caucasus
61. Azerbaijan and Georgia are more afraid of the independence of Kosovo than Serbia
62. Session of Black Sea Economic Cooperation to be held in Georgia
63. Azerbaijan to restore gas supply to Georgia
64. Runway at Tbilisi airport needs reconstruction
65. A (drafty) window of opportunity
66. Kublashvili met representatives of diplomatic corps
67. Iran Khodro enters Georgian market
68. NATO Information Center's new proposal
69. Businessman set up special fund for settlement of demographic problem
70. War veterans and blinds to exercise privileges on municipal transport
71. Public schools located Dedoplistskaro and Sighnaghi to receive wood
72. Government, businesses raise GEL 15 mln for social assistance

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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