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July 23, 2008
Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation, Volume 5, Issue 140
Moscow refined at the last moment its method of killing Berlin’s plan for resolving the Abkhazia conflict. Rather than rejecting the plan outright, as it did initially, Moscow received German Minister of Foreign Frank-Walter Steinmeier courteously and seemed prepared to discuss the plan, even terming it a step in the right direction.
July 23, 2008
Press Release, Ministry of Defence of Georgia
Turkish TCG GOKOVA/FF/TR and Greek HS KOUNTOURIOTIS/FF/TR frigates made a port call in Batumi today. A friendly visit of frigates of Turkish and Greek Naval Forces in Georgia is conducted in the framework of the Program Partnership for Peace.
- Lieutenant General Gary D. Speer at the Defence Ministry
- International organization concerns about situation
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia met with Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Georgia
- Georgia to send 400 troops to Afghanistan
- Russia Calls for No-Force Pact in Georgian Separatist Regions
July 23, 2008
Giorgi Lomsadze, EurasiaNet Eurasia Business & Economy
Gone are the days when a female tea worker in a straw planter hat symbolized Georgia to regional neighbors, or when bottles of Georgian wine and mineral water were commonplace on the dining tables of citizens in formerly Soviet states.
- Grivnas 8,4 Million Invested In Development Of Ferry Kerch–Poti/Batumi
- Presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia to Attend Baku-Tbilisi-kars Railroad Laying Ceremony
- Meeting On The Topic Of Construction Of The Railroad Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Held In Tbilisi
- JSC Bank Of Georgia Announces A US$30 Million Increase Of Its Loan Passthrough Notes
- Georgia And Switzerland Entered In The Agreement On International Air Communication
July 18,2008
Nika Khorava , The Messenger Online
For four hours on the evening of July 15, the country’s human rights ombudsman stood in parliament to read from last year’s report on human rights in Georgia.
- Georgia: Rumored merger heightens concern about press freedom
- Gamsakhurdia ditches opposition bloc, calls it fake opposition
- INTERVIEW-Georgia leader's ex-ally slams democracy 'shortfall'
- Georgia: Rose Revolution leader ditches politics for an NGO
- Justice minister and prosecutor general posts to merge
July 23, 2008
Pavel Korbudan, Eurasia Daily Monitor, The Jamestown Foundation, Volume 5, Issue 140
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has refused to approve using the Odesaa-Brody pipeline for pumping Caspian oil to the Pryvat Group’s refineries.
July 20, 2008
Luke Harding, The Observer
The prospect of a war in the Caucasus is looming closer. Last week four Russian military jets crossed into Georgian airspace - flying over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. This prompted a furious reaction from Georgian officials. They have vowed to shoot down the next Russian warplane.
July 23, 2008
Stratfor (originally published on July 21, 2008)
Summary. Georgia has put its troops on the border with the breakaway region of Abkhazia on combat alert because Russia is amassing special troops on the edge of the Kodori Gorge, a strategically important area in Abkhazia that is currently under Georgian control.
- “Georgia-Abkhazia issue is very high on the agenda amongst European Union states” – Sabine Freizer
- Russia’s tactics bring the region closer to violence
- Tbilisi claims victory in UN Security Council session
- Steinmeier's plan on Abkhazia: Benign intentions, limited relevance, blocked by Moscow
- Abkhazia: Blame for blast skirts ethnic ties
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- Down on the farm: Georgia struggles to open EU market for agricultural exports
- Turkish and Greek Frigates in Batumi Port
- Lieutenant General Gary D. Speer at the Defence Ministry
- International organization concerns about situation
- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia met with Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Georgia
- Saakashvili rewarded Buba Kikabidze with Order of St.George
- Georgia to send 400 troops to Afghanistan
- Russia Calls for No-Force Pact in Georgian Separatist Regions
- Grivnas 8,4 Million Invested In Development Of Ferry Kerch–Poti/Batumi
- Presidents of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia to Attend Baku-Tbilisi-kars Railroad Laying Ceremony
- Meeting On The Topic Of Construction Of The Railroad Baku-Tbilisi-Kars Held In Tbilisi
- JSC Bank Of Georgia Announces A US$30 Million Increase Of Its Loan Passthrough Notes
- Georgia And Switzerland Entered In The Agreement On International Air Communication
- NBG holds interest rate on inflation data
- Lavrov, Rice Discuss Abkhaz Conflict
- Separatists hope to be recognized
- Georgian tea qualified highest mark
- Armed Attack on Georgian Family in Abkhazia
- Russian Foreign Affairs Minister comments on Georgia-Abkhazian conflict
- Turkey and Azerbaijan to jointly produce military hardware
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