NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-20-08

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1. Parliament majority, opposition level mutual accusations
2. Vote on key constitutional amendments postponed
3. 25 issues to be considered at cabinet meeting on Wednesday
4. Saakashvili to get informed about first results of new acting plan in 50 days
5. Law-makers claim government ignores part of remarks on the bill
6. Opposition meets foreign diplomats, threatens mass protests
7. Opposition threatens mass hunger strike
8. Shalva Natelashvili accuses the administration of responsibility in Badri Patarkatsishvili’s death
9. United Opposition to hold presentation of headquarters in Batumi
10. Opposition raises campaign funds
11. Christian-Democrats” demand to maintain buildings of “Tavadaznaurta” and “Shavnabada” school
12. Georgian leader addicted to power, ex-minister says
13. Okruashvili stays in the public eye, with an extradition decision pending
14. Supporters of Okruashvili held rally with demand of using sequestrated office
15. MP calls for U.S. intervention to stop railway privatization
16. President calls on tax department to act carefully
17. Amount of foreign investments is usd 450 millions in 2008
18. State Eurobonds to be issued in April
19. Georgia and Kazakhstan achieve agreement on cereals supply
20. Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project presented in Geneva
21. Shevardnadze hails Castro as heroic
22. Staff reduction expected at Kote Marjanishvili Theater
23. Minister of Foreign Affairs to meet with Jean-Louis Laurens
24. Protected border is not same as closed border
25. Locals, tourists expecting for assistance in Gudauri
26. Health Care Minister meets director of clinics
27. President meets parliamentary majority to discuss Kosovo
28. President Saakashvili sees no parallels between Georgia, Serbia
29. Kosovo part of "big political game" - Georgian foreign minister
30. Saakashvili's and Putin's wishes ahead of meeting
31. The Putin-Saakashvili meeting could bring good news
32. Tbilisi notes progress in economic talks with Moscow
33. Georgia, Russia achieve progress at flight connection talks
34. Russian Communists call for review of attitude towards breakaway republics
35. Russia won't recognize Abkhazia, South Ossetia - senior MP
36. Kosovo to have no effect on peacekeepers in Abkhazia – Baluyevsky
37. Other separatists ask 'why not us?'
38. Abkhazia, South Ossetia's sovereignty could spark CIS crisis
39. Russian TV and radio highlights 11-17 February
40. Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Sean McCormack holds regular news briefing [excerpt]
41. Series of arrests has begun in Tskhinvali
42. South Ossetia to seek recognition after Kosovo independence
43. Abkhazia preparing for war - Georgian TV
44. Abkhaz official says Kosovo's independence "artificial"

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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