NEWS: Georgia News Digest 12-07-07

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1. 13 remain in presidential race
2. Deadline for presidential runners registration expires in Georgia
3. Representatives of Badri Patarkatsishvili submitted 202 170 signatures of supporters to CEC
4. Patarkatsishvili list of signatures of support largest in Georgia
5. Patarkatsishvili never intended to visit Belgium
6. Members of National Council to meet British MPs and Patarkatsishvili
7. Opposition leaders to meet Patarkatsishvili in London
8. Representative of Gia Maisashvili submitted 70 000 signatures of supporters to CEC
9. Interview with the leader of the 'Party of Future' and candidate for presidency Giorgi Maisashvili
10. Representatives of Levan Gachechiladze submitted 63 000 signatures of supporters to CEC
11. Gachechiladze to sell GWS shares
12. Gachechiladze discusses economic plans with journalists
13. Government does not allow opening of Gachechiladze’s election headquarters in Abasha
14. Representatives of Shalva Natelashvili submitted 75 000 signatures of supporters to CEC
15. Mamuka Katsitadze submitted 165 000 signatures of supporters of David Gamkrelidze to CEC
16. Campaign finance a "shadowy" issue in Georgia’s presidential race
17. Government initiates appointing security to presidential candidates
18. Authorities preparing to falsify elections - opposition leader
19. Some Georgian politicians want me involved in local affairs - European diplomat
20. Opposition cold-shoulder for PACE monitor
21. Gachechiladze met Matyas Eorsi
22. Georgia’s Azerbaijanis to vote for presidential candidate who will meet their demands
23. Ethnic Azeris in Georgia not to vote for Saakashvili, NGO leader says in Baku
24. Presidential hopeful drops out expecting "disaster" in Georgia
25. Police prevent suicide attempt by presidential hopeful
26. Saakashvili himself obligated me to make visits to Russian embassy—Khaindrava
27. OSCE to send 300 observers for early polls
28. Belgian and Ukrainian observers to monitor presidential elections in Georgia
29. Opposition calls for close observation of elections
30. Saakashvili promised introduction of low bank credit program
31. Saakashvili promises ‘cheap credit bank’
32. A free Georgia
33. Burjanadze and Saakashvili opened Natakhtari-Igoeti Highway
34. Saakashvili says employment priority for second term
35. Government of Georgia to release extra credits for support to agriculture
36. Georgia expects free trade agreement with EU in 2009
37. Politicians are wrong but much depends on journalists as well—Burdjanadze
38. Opposition accuses head of kindergarten
39. People cheated by vouchers
40. Participants of the demonstration organized by the united opposition are still being abused
41. Opposition members relatives’ businesses sealed up
42. Public broadcaster plans election debates
43. information note: Reopening of Imedi TV
44. video: Banned TV station to broadcast again
45. Ban on Georgian TV station lifted
46. Georgian court frees TV station's assets
47. Imedi staff readying to go on the air
48. Several people allowed to enter reopened Imedi station premises
49. Imedi executives refuse to enter studios without TV cameras
50. Imedi TV equipment severely damaged
51. Georgian pro-opposition TV channel to take long time to reopen: chief
52. Patarkatsishvili evaluates restoration of "Imedi’s" license as result of people’s will
53. Badri Patarkatsishvili – Resumption of Imedi TV broadcast license is the outcome of Georgian people’s will 54. David Bakradze – presidential candidate enjoys no right to own and control TV company
55. Patarkatsishvili, MPs comment on TV station's reopening
56. 'Conscience of media' shows red card to Georgian officials
57. Lithuania welcomes Georgia’s move to lift legal restrictions of TV channel
58. EU official urges Georgia to lift media restrictions before presidential vote
59. Radio Hereti employees demand security guarantees
60. Radio station alleges official intimidation
61. Public Defender requests law enforcers to investigate fact of pressure exerted upon radio Hereti
62. Journalists with radio station "Hereti" complain about suppression
63. Georgia plugged into NATO defence radar
64. After unrest, Georgia struggles to revive NATO bid
65. The Caucasus trump card [excerpt]
66. report: Georgia’s quest for integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures
67. Georgia fears impact of Kosovo crisis
68. Gurgenidze appeals for Western backing if Kosovo declares independence
69. Unrecognized states
70. Going through the motions?
71. Russian official says peacekeepers to hold on to Abkhazia military base
72. Rotation of peacekeepers in Abkhazia
73. Georgians press-ganged into Abkhazian army
74. Return of refugees essential for Georgian-Abkhaz settlement
75. Abkhaz separatist president declares state of emergency
76. Russian peacekeeper in South Ossetia says Georgian checkpoints "illegal"
77. video: Russian escapes slavery in Georgia
78. Foreign Ministry toughens requirements to foreign consulates
79. Chaos as thousands scramble for places on employment scheme
80. Juicy promises to citrus farmers
81. Koba Subeliani meets IDPs
82. Georgia denies Kurdish rebels using Georgian territory for transit
83. Salford Capital Partners outraged by motives and conduct of Georgian government's seizure of Standard Bank
84. Disagreement at court
85. Journalist takes legal action against police
86. Kutaisi drivers have joined the ranks of the unemployed
87. Lia Sichinava, a teacher from Senaki, intends to protect her rights in court
88. We have no central heating
89. Consume less, pay more-Akhalkalaki dwellers protest padded bills on electricity
90. Football game becomes the reason for prisoner’s death

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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