NEWS: Georgia News Digest 12-25-07

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1. Leftist messages clash as election date nears
2. Dieter Boden – Governmental candidate’s share in the pre-election TV campaign is tremendous
3. Nongovernmental organizations plan to launch media center during the pre-election period
4. CEC says photographing the voting process with mobile telephones without accreditation will be forbidden
5. Advertisements and pre-election messages of presidential candidates
6. KU professor working with Georgians on elections
7. Patriarch calls nation for peace ahead of election
8. While checking the election registers, the Republicans found ran into a registered voter who had died a year earlier
9. On the cutting edge of elections
10. Exit polls for early presidential election to be conducted against four tv companies’ order
11. IFES and USAID invite presidential candidates to debate
12. Newspaper Whole Week ceases opinion poll surveys to verify presidential candidates’ rating
13. Samegrelo is not a Rose Revolution domain
14. Davitashvili assists Teo Tlashadze in election campaign
15. Davitashvili says government wary of opposition popularity
16. Davitashvili warnings government about telephone threaten
17. Address of Georgian students living in America to presidential candidate Levan Gachechiladze
18. The Human Rights Centre demands an investigation into the November 7 events
19. Country at the crossroads
20. Vladimer Papava: ‘The genie is out of the bottle already’
21. General Prosecutor's Office publishes secret recordings
22. Patarkatsishvili HQ denies conspiracy charges
23. Patarkatsishvili chief campaigner declared plotter
24. Former judge detained on suspicion of plotting coup
25. More shocking news on coup plot expected
26. Patarkatsishvili dismisses video recordings as "provocation"
27. United opposition denies links with alleged anti-government plot
28. video: Coup claim rocks Georgia's election campaign
29. Georgian Government claims opposition campaign manager plotted coup
30. Burjanadze responds to published secret recordings
31. Burjanadze: Government to give adequate response to political force acting against state
32. Salome Zurabishvili doubts about secret video-recording made by the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office
33. Socor is at it once again
34. Late PM’s brother to lead Patarkatsishvili’s campaign
35. Patarkatsishvili promises $1 bln aid to Georgians if victorious
36. Georgian oligarch claims he is assassination target
37. Failure to communicate dogs Saakashvili's first term
38. “Society of Merab Kostava” supports Mikheil Saakashvili
39. No separatist sentiments in Javakheti – Saakashvili
40. Saakashvili visits Armenian-populated town of Akhalkalaki
41. Misha’s PR-ism in times of elections
42. Evidence for coercion
43. Efforts underway for candidates’ tv debates
44. Who owns the TV stations?
45. First forum of Georgian journalists incorporated over five hundred delegates
46. TV anchor denies going into politics
47. Giorgi Targamadze - I am going to continue working for Imedi TV if my employers allow me to further
48. Michnik’s watchdog group members discussed last week’s monitoring
49. Radio station “Hereti” sues Georgian National Communications Commission
50. GNCC to approve code of conduct for broadcasters
51. Media forum under way
52. Ia Antadze recognized as Journalist of the Year 2007
53. Victor Yushchenko hold meeting with Nino Burjanadze
54. Ukraine supports Georgia’s democratic processes - Yushchenko
55. Turkey, Russia, Ukraine - Georgia’s largest trade partners
56. report: Kosovo and the principles of just secession
57. video: Georgia returns seized ex-peacekeepers
58. Rebels offer Georgia help to combat pro-Moscow Chechens
59. Moscow to always recognize Georgia territorial integrity: diplomat
60. Sukhumi gets no sovereignty recognition guarantees from Russia –FM
61. The real face of Russian peacekeepers
62. video: Eduard Kokoity interview
63. National Archive opened Tskhinvali and Java offices in Eredvi
64. Radiation promoting disease in the Samckhe-Javakheti Region
65. A new prison under construction in Ninotsminda Region
66. A prison on the lakeshore
67. Georgian Prime Minister met political scientists and economists at GFSIS
68. Nino Burjanadze meets diplomatic corps accredited in Georgia
69. Acting president Burjanadze meets emergency medical care doctors
70. Nino Burjanadze attends action - “My First Vote”
71. Cost of New Year supra suggests soaring inflation
72. 15 plus several – competition gets stiffer for Georgia’s insurers
73. In 2007, Telasi invested in Tbilisi Electric Network over GEL 37 million
74. Arti Group speak of intended arson of company’s warehouse
75. GOGC to manage rehabilitation works on gas pipeline
76. Georgian trade deficit widened in first 11 months of year
77. Armenia may benefit from construction of Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi railway
78. video: Back from the dead - 'murder victim' leaves police with red faces
79. Merabishvili to submit two projects for discussion on cabinet meeting tomorrow
80. Global democracy manipulators: Polyarchy and the UN Democracy Fund [excerpts]
81. 32 pupils of 16 schools to be handed scholarship of amount gel 100 in Tskhinvali Region
82. Father left his son homeless
83. Incurred proprietor is going to commit suicide in front of Parliament
84. Suicide in Kutaisi jail
85. Who will reimburse unreasonably spent 100 000 lari?
86. On the demand of the Public Defender an investigator is punished
87. IDPs will spent cold winter together
88. Politicians have lost interest to court trials - Konstantine Kublashvili

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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