Can one gift provinces to the AI in 1.5/1.6?

[Jambo]

Does anyone know yet whether one can gift provinces to the AI with the new patch? In the 1.3/1.4 patch AI factions would never accept provinces gifted by the human player, effectively rendering this diplomatic option useless.

For me it was a nice option to help out beleaguered factions. Let's just hope so.

[GFX707]

If you give them an empty city they will accept it, but the city will magically obtain a garrison of low quality type units....stops the player from using that trick to slaughter his population.

I don't see why they don't just give us a "slaughter xxxxx population" button and have it cause a huge loyalty hit instead of having to leave our cities, let them rebel, and siege them to do the same thing. If I'm in charge of a city and I have an army there it shouldn't be that hard (or ahistorical) for me to kill a few people now and then. Maybe even a "deport" option or something to shift population around, but I think that is getting unrealistic.

[player1]

Because that's suppercheese.

Now at least you need to earn that (by winning the battle).