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This paper analyzes issues related to media and national minorities in Georgia in order to provide an assessment of the current situation of minority media and of the impact of media on majority-minority relations. With progressive media legislation and new policy initiatives highlighting minority concerns, Georgia is slowly making headway in securing basic rights for its minority population. Ethnic Georgians face many of the same problems as minorities in their lack of access to balanced information and professional reporting. It is evident that minorities face additional obstacles that are not being resolved by the government despite lofty aspirations signed onto in policy documents.