Daily Archives: February 6, 2012

Journalist’s home shot at in Tbilisi

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TBILISI, DFWatch – A shot was fired at a journalist’s house in the Georgian capital Monday. No-one was injured. The journalist Khatuna Paichadze was at work when the shot rang out at around 14:00 local time. The bullet broke a window in her first floor flat in an Italian yard […]

Ban Ki-moon discussed security with Georgia’s foreign minister

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TBILISI, DFWatch – United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been in contact with the foreign minister of Georgia to discuss security issues. It’s the country’s deputy foreign minister Nikoloz Vashakidze who brings this information at a regular briefing on Monday. […]

Georgia does not consider role in US-Iran conflict

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TBLISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Speaker of Parliament says that there is no talk of Georgia having a role in a potential conflict between Iran and the USA. Davit Bakradze was commenting a statement made earlier by the deputy secretary of the country’s security council, Batu Kutelia, […]

Administrative-territorial reform – a taboo in Georgian politics

By | February 6th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: , |

A lot of reforms have been carried out in the country during the first two decades after Georgia’s independence in 1991. Although some of them were rather controversial and contradictory, they led to significant changes in various spheres of Georgia’s social life, writes David Losaberidze, […]

Georgian youth learn English, and keep their Russian too

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TBILISI, DFWatch – English is first priority for Georgian youth, but they might as well keep a basic knowledge of Russian too, just in case. Margo is getting ready to go abroad for a year through an exchange program, after graduating from university last summer, specializing in journalism. […]