Daily Archives: July 2, 2012

Saakashvili may have violated constitution

By | July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s appointment of a former interior minister as prime minister may have been in violation of the constitution, and therefore invalid. One of Georgia’s most experienced constitutional experts, Vakhtang Khmaladze, says […]

Georgia gets new minister for employment

By | July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili today presented his employment minister, which is a new post. “I have initiative to set up specific Employment Ministry, which will take care to solve problems of employment. A database of unemployed […]

Georgia to host UEFA Super Cup in 2015

By | July 2nd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia will host UEFA Super Cup in August 2015. This will be the first time Georgia is host country for an UEFA event. According to the Georgian Football Federation, the decision was made in Kiev on Saturday at a session of the executive committee. […]

Field meeting in Abkhazia breaks down again

By | July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Again, a field meeting meant to defuse tension in the conflict region Abkhazia has broken down before it even started. The meeting should have been held June 27, and was to have brought together operative leaders from the warring parties of 2008 […]

Georgia woos Circassians, gains support in North Caucasus

By | July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian parliament on Friday approved the country’s strategy on relations with North Caucasus people. At the beginning, the strategy had status as a concept, but when it finally was passed its status had been raised and it needed a […]

Ivanishvili gathers supporters in Georgia’s old capital Mtskheta

By | July 2nd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian opposition figure head Bidzina Ivanishvili continued his tour of the country’s regions Sunday by staging a rally in the old capital Mtskheta, 20 km north of Tbilisi. The rally started at 19:00 and saw the billionaire making new […]