The Week in Brief
Friday, July 25
Tbilisi claimed a diplomatic victory in a closed-door UN Security Council session convened after Russia acknowledged sending its warplanes over Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia. The Georgian envoy to the UN said he found ‘very strong support for territorial integrity again and very strong condemnation of [the incident].’
Four South Ossetians detained on their way to the breakaway region at the start of the week were released, two without charges. Separatist authorities in South Ossetia say the arrests were linked to their own arrest of a Georgian citizen they say is guilty of war crimes.
The state minister for reintegration issues is now also the president’s special representative for conflict resolution, an extra title the state minister said would undercut separatist objections to the word ‘reintegration.’
An open letter signed by civil society figures blasted parliament for its “cynical attitude to democracy” after MPs dismissed an annual human rights report as biased and baseless.
The Georgian president’s official website was briefly forced off-line by a computer attack. Internet security experts who documented the incident suggest politically-motivated Russian hackers are to blame.
President Mikheil Saakashvili promised one million lari to Georgian athletes who win a gold medal in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.
Four South Ossetians detained on their way to the breakaway region at the start of the week were released, two without charges. Separatist authorities in South Ossetia say the arrests were linked to their own arrest of a Georgian citizen they say is guilty of war crimes.
The state minister for reintegration issues is now also the president’s special representative for conflict resolution, an extra title the state minister said would undercut separatist objections to the word ‘reintegration.’
An open letter signed by civil society figures blasted parliament for its “cynical attitude to democracy” after MPs dismissed an annual human rights report as biased and baseless.
The Georgian president’s official website was briefly forced off-line by a computer attack. Internet security experts who documented the incident suggest politically-motivated Russian hackers are to blame.
President Mikheil Saakashvili promised one million lari to Georgian athletes who win a gold medal in the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.