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The United States and the European Union deepened their political and economic ties with Georgia but failed to use their leverage to secure human rights improvements.

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Resignation from the position would jeopardize functioning of new Constitutional provisions

Experts suppose that the current President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili may show up on the top of the election list of the Nationalist Movement in the coming elections. If true, this would necessitate his resignation. Premature termination of the Presidency however would stall Constitutional provisions which foresee strengthening of Prime Minister’s institution at the expense of Presidential position.

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Coming year will be significant for Georgia from domestic as well as foreign political point of view; we are facing - on the one hand, the elections in Georgia and on the other, tense pre-election situation in Russia with Putin trying to speculate on national feelings of Russians. In addition, there is a probable American-Iranian military confrontation in which Georgia will presumably have its big or small role to play, that in its turn, will become known after Obama - Saakashvili meeting. We are talked with Mamuka Areshidze about the fate of Georgia: 

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Central Bank of Georgia goes ahead with milder monetary policy but no increase in economic activity ensues as a result. Only banks that can have loans for lower interest rate at Georgian Central Bank seem to take benefits.  

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87% of Georgian Stock Exchange is non-transparent, which undermines development of Georgian stock exchange market and scares investors off.

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Interview with Ambassador of Japan in Georgia

Georgian Journal would like to invite you to the mesmerizing and mysterious eastern world. It is Japan, the ‘Land of Rising Sun’, which also happens to be the world of Samurais, Haiku and Tanka poetry and Sushi. Let us see how the representative of this beautiful country lives in faraway Georgia and how it feels to be the first diplomat ever. This is Masayoshi Kamohara, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan.  

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Lali  Papaskiri

“Recently several countries have demostrated economic interests towards these territories and maybe they are thinking about recognizing them,” – Gogi Khutsishvili speaks about possible negative dynamics in the near future around the issue of Abkhazian and Ossetian separatism.

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Georgia leads Europe and holds the fourth place in the world by the number of prisoners

According to official figures, from February 2006 till today over 650 prisoners died in various places of detention in Georgia. Despite numerous recommendations of international organizations to the Government of Georgia to abandon its infamous principle of zero tolerance, the situation actually worsens and there is still no indication that the criminal prosecution will be liberalized.

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Merger of the Agency for Trade and Competition with the State Procurement Agency is not the best solution  for Georgia; it eases life for the business but it is permeated with the fears of the conflict of interests.

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Who said the United States of America is a young country? Probably those who do not know how old the republic and the democracy are there! Who said it is the land flowing with milk and honey where dollars are growing on trees like green leaves?

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