Georgian digest: excerpts
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Georgian digest: excerpts
ANNOTATED DAILY HEADLINES
OF THE GEORGIAN PRESS
Compiled by the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and
Development (CIPDD)
Text: Tamara Shamil
English version: Guram Dumbadze
Editor: Emil Adelkhanov-Steinberg
May 28, 1999
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3. THE ABKHAZ READY TO RESIST THE ENEMY'S SUPERIOR FORCES
Almost 60% of the Abkhaz troops, including armoured forces, took part
in a two-day military exercise at the Ochamchire firing ground.
According to Vladimir Mikamba, the defence minister of Abkhazia,
Sukhumi had informed the Russian Peacekeeping Force and the UNOMIG (UN
Observers' Mission in Georgia) about the exercise in advance but did
not permit their observers to attend it. He says Abkhazia wonders why
Russia's politicians and military leadership do not seem concerned
about Shevardnadze's foreign policy which is driving Georgia towards
NATO membership.
Prime-News agency. "Akhali Taoba" No. 144, May 28, p. 3
4. IS PUSHKIN'S ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION A POLITICAL ACTION?!
The President decreed to celebrate the bicentenary of the great
Russian poet Pushkin in Georgia on May 31-June 3. An ad hoc
governmental commission is created to this end.
Thea Berashvili. "Dilis Gazeti" No. 118, May 28, p. 3
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May 31, 1999
1. OSSETIANS GETTING BACK HOME
Stanislav Bakayev, the chairman of the government of the
self-proclaimed South Ossetian republic, and members of an ad hoc
commission for the problems of refugees from South Ossetia visited
Tbilisi on May 29. At their talks with Eduard Shevardnadze they told
that 27 thousand out of the 50 thousand Ossetians who fled South
Ossetia during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict had already get back to
home.
Prime-News agency. "Resonance" No. 144, May 30, p. 3
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June 2, 1999
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3. MURMAN LEBANIDZE'S BOOKS ARE GOING TO BE BURNT UP IN ZUGDIDI
The famous Georgian poet Murman Lebanidze's verse published in the
last issue of the newspaper "Literaturuli Sakartvelo" (organ of the
Writers' Union) seems to have offended the population of the Samegrelo
region (west Georgia) as he openly scoffs at the Megrelian language.
Many Megrelians regarded his verse as Tbilisi's attack.
Rusiko Mikava. "Resonance" No. 147, June 2, p. 1
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