NEWS: Georgia News Digest 01-05-08

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1. audio: Key elections in Georgia
2. Over 460 OSCE observers monitoring Georgia election
3. Media Counsel published results of pre-election media monitoring
4. Your guide to the January 5 presidential election
5. ‘Crucial’ presidential polls, overshadowed plebiscites
6. video: Tensions as Georgia prepares for early elections
7. Day of 'tense silence' begins in Georgia on eve of Jan 5 election
8. Central Election Commission expects presidential election fully prepared
9. CEC summed up its work carried out prior to presidential elections
10. Burjanadze addresses nation ahead of polls
11. Burjanadze discusses elections with European officials
12. Burjanadze had telephone conversation with European officials
13. Burdzhanadze assures EU of free, fair elections in Georgia
14. Candidates threaten to disregard poll result
15. Georgia election process labelled as 'rigged'
16. Georgian elections still up in the air
17. Every Rose Revolution has its thorn
18. Unpredictable election puts Georgian democracy to test
19. Saturday vote tests Georgian leader
20. Georgia election a test of democracy
21. Georgia to vote in election seen as democracy test
22. Democratic stakes high as country heads into early presidential vote
23. Most of Georgian presidential candidates confident of victory
24. Candidates meet with international observers
25. Telephone conversation was held between Bezhuashvili and Ilkka Kanerva
26. Patriarch called on population to support worthy presidential candidate
27. Orthodox Church wants president who respects religion
28. Anatomy of Georgia's anti-revolution (part 2)
29. After January 5 elections
30. audio: Georgian president faces election challenge
31. Incumbent harks back to Georgian heroes in search of presidential victory
32. Saakashvili touts Georgian 'miracle’
33. Saakashvili ends campaign with a call to focus on future
34. Saakashvili's grip on power may tighten
35. Okruashvili: 'Saakashvili must resign his position'
36. ‘Polls major test for Georgia’ – Saakashvili
37. Bakradze holds final briefing
38. Bakradze calls on opponents to cooperate
39. Georgia to continue peaceful restoration of territorial integrity
40. Saakashvili pledges to defeat poverty
41. Ombudsman demands corresponding reaction on sacking members of Gachechiladze’s headquarters
42. Supporters of Gachechiladze beaten up in Adjaria
43. Gachechiladze met representatives of foreign observational organizations
44. Gachechiladze urges vigilance in 5 January polls
45. Gachechiladze complains of media smear campaign
46. Gachechiladze convinced of "impressive victory" in the poll
47. Opposition says activists beaten in Batumi
48. video: Georgian opposition cry foul before the election
49. Opposition already crying foul on election eve
50. video: Georgia election: opposition already crying 'foul'
51. video: Georgia poll manipulation feared
52. Opposition continues attacks on exit polls
53. CEC rejects opposition complaint over medical vouchers
54. Imedi television implodes under Patarkatsishvili
55. Patarkatsishvili’s violent strategy exposed --- but not yet defeated
56. Patarkatsishvili to stay in London during election
57. Patarkatsishvili's election bid a way to win political capital abroad – Pavlovsky
58. Patarkatsishvili's headquarters complain about government pressure
59. Gogi Tsulaia dissociated himself from Gelbakhiani
60. Opposition 'godfather' rattles presidential election
61. TV Imedi staff met with director general
62. TV feud mirrors poll rivalry
63. Natelashvili is sure that people are ready to change authority by peaceful way
64. Natelashvili met members of special delegations of OSCE and European Parliament
65. ‘I will definitely win’ –Natelashvili
66. Some emigrants support Natelashvili
67. Natelashvili urges Ukrainian observers to impartiality
68. Labor Party distrusts election observers
69. Ivanishvili denies Natelashvili offered him premier's post
70. Maisashvili threatens civil disobedience if former president re-elected
71. ‘About GEL 150,000 for campaign fund’ –Gamkrelidze
72. Gamkrelidze called on international observers to fairness
73. Irina Sarishvili not intend to withdraw her candidacy
74. Russian embargo still causing problems for Georgian exports
75. Three people killed by gas leak
76. Kezerashvili and Gogava celebrated the New Year together with Georgian soldiers
77. A famous Georgian painter died
78. Georgia experiences lull in foreign investment
79. Burjanadze says Georgia to be reunited if election result is "correct"
80. Attempts made to raise tension in conflict zones – Burjanadze
81. Black Sea tensions
82. Separatists reinforce control on administrative border
83. Sokhumi denies reported attacks on Georgians in Gali
84. Separatists deny pressure on relatives of Tbilisi-backed officials

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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