Sunday, March 02, 2008

NEWS: Georgia News Digest 02-27-08

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. Parliamentary election set for May
2. Finally, an election campaign
3. Some constitutional amendments passed, others postponed
4. Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Issues supported candidatures of three new ambassadors
5. PM visits applicants for cheap loan scheme
6. Some opposition MPs have not yet decided whether to attend parliamentary sessions
7. Opposition and authorities reached agreement on several constitutional amendments
8. Berezovsky wants to attend Patarkatsishvili's funeral
9. Israel’s president to attend funeral of Patarkatsishvili
10. Israeli president, Hilary Clinton' brothers to attend Patarkatsishvili funeral
11. video: Georgian tycoon's body returns home
12. Paris court delays hearing on Georgia's rebellious ex-minister case
13. Qualifications for chairperson and members of GPB’s Board of Trustees
14. Talks resume on public TV, constitutional amendments
15. Shortlist of Public TV Board contenders unveiled
16. New Board of Public TV approved
17. Georgia to tighten visa regime upon EU, IOM recommendations
18. Koba Subeliani held meeting with Ambassador of Germany to Georgia
19. Tbilisi awaits assessment report ahead of NATO summit
20. Georgia to chair GUUAM in 2008
21. Journalist of Alia Holding claims that he is threatened on account of the article exposing an MP
22. Refugees from Pankisi Valley to be handed over cards serving provision of basic assistance
23. Chechen refugees accuse United Nations High Commission for Refugees in forging their names
24. Remittances up in 2007, newspaper says
25. Border police officers pass drug tests
26. Ukrainian servicemen discuss international exercises in Georgia, USA
27. Rising food prices worry voters
28. Saakashvili’s statement on border control, NATO, separatists
29. Ambassadorial nominee has strategy for settling relations with Russia
30. Georgia condemns conduct of Russian presidential election in separatist areas
31. Tbilisi protests over Russia's vote plans for breakaway republics
32. Georgia and Russian Federation reached the agreement in principle on the DAFs in the conflict regions
33. Russian Duma expected to mull independence of CIS breakaway regions
34. North Ossetian leader urges non-aggression pacts for S-Ossetia, Abkhazia
35. Kosovo as a precedent fomenting separatism in foreign states [excerpt]
36. Propaganda’s lasting scent
37. A precedent after the fact [excerpt]
38. State Department regular news briefing [excerpt]
39. A way to let Abkhazia live a normal life
40. Georgian journalist detained by Abkhaz police at peacekeeping checkpoint – TV
41. Journalist detained in Abkhaz conflict zone
42. Public broadcaster is denouncing the fact of kidnapping Mze correspondent
43. Abkhazia to follow path of independence - separatist leader
44. Abkhazia initiates secession procedure
45. Bagapsh: No talks with Tbilisi until Kodori Gorge militarised zone
46. Abkhazia plans artillery drills
47. Abkhazeti - TV Ltd obtained broadcasting license
48. Teachers of Gali to be given vouchers of health insure
49. 10-15 teens are “drug addicts”
50. Levan Bezhashvili: Why local government avoid journalists and NGOs?
51. Socially excluded citizens of Kakheti region deprived of medical insurance
52. Who is threatened with school reform?
53. Ethnic Avars resettlement from Kvareli District for May 2008
54. Limiting air time for “pre-election campaign period”
55. Vale locals need ambulance & “better medical services”
56. Restoration of disability benefits demanded
57. First amendments made to the state budget of Georgia for 2008
58. Extra over gel 355 thousand to be refunded to businessmen by Finance Ministry
59. IFC started discussion of the gender balance in the Georgian business

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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

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