NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-01-08

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1. Gachechiladze has highest presidential rating in Tbilisi
2. Georgia vows 'fair elections' after OSCE criticism
3. Georgia to run exit polls for January 5 vote
4. Minister stresses on right to secret ballot
5. Head of Orthodox Church calls for high voter turnout
6. Foreign diplomats call for free elections
7. Lithuania sends vast number of observers to Georgia’s presidential elections
8. On the cusp: Georgia country briefing
9. Shevardnadze sure his choice will win presidential elections in Georgia
10. Saakashvili delivers New Year address from Abkhazia
11. Saakashvili arrives in Ukraine to celebrate new year
12. Tbilisi denies reports Saakashvili leaves for Ukraine
13. Incumbent Mikheil Saakashvili continues campaign meetings
14. Rose reformer tries to regain bloom
15. Poverty, unpopular reforms bedevil Saakashvili in Georgia vote
16. Davit Bakradze calls on opposition to be more polite
17. Profile: Giorgi Maisashvili
18. Davit Gamkrelidze met with journalists
19. Court turns down Labor Party demand on disqualifying Saakashvili as presidential candidate
20. Labor Party sues Central Election Commission
21. Profile: Irina Sarishvili
22. Irina Sarishvili calls on the opposition to agree to one joint candidate
23. Five opposition activists fined
24. Opposition vows peaceful protests if elections are falsified
25. Targamadze could leave Imedi
26. Journalist gives some details of Imedi shutdown talks
27. Static off-the-air
28. New Year’s presents for orphanages from future military officers
29. First journalism forum meets, discusses current challenges
30. New state budget emphasizes social spending
31. What 2007 brought, and what a new year may bring
32. New year, new taxes
33. Georgia to secede from CIS at 'advantageous moment'
34. Abkhazia eyes Kosovo domino effect
35. Resources for Abkhaz conflict resolution has been included in US budget
36. Russian peacekeepers put on high alert ahead of Georgian presidential election
37. Russia peacekeepers on reinforced alert in Abkhazia, S Ossetia
38. Sergey Bagapsh met with Georgians

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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