Daily Archives: July 3, 2012

Germany’s CDU calls for Saakashvili to hold fair election

By | July 3rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany’s Christian Democrat party calls for democratic elections in Georgia in October. In a press release entitled Ensure Fair Elections in Georgia, the CDU’s faction in the Bundestag calls for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to take […]

Georgia’s Basis Bank bought by Hualing Group

By | July 3rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – One of China’s largest companies, Hualing Group, has bought a 90 percent share in Georgia’s Basis Bank. Xinjiang Hualing Industry & Trade (Group) Co. Ltd., Basis Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development today held a joint press […]

Merabishvili presents USD 12 billion action plan

By | July 3rd, 2012|Categories: Economy, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The government plans to spend four billion lari to develop agriculture, six billion on pensions, three billion on health insurance, three billion on social assistance and four billion on education. Changes have been made in the government, with […]

Georgia’s new power ministers: Akhalaia and Shashkin

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TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s former defense minister has been appointed new interior minister. The former education minister will take his place, and the former rector of Police Academy will be new education minister. Bachana (“Bacho”) Akhalaia will take the position […]

Petre Tsiskarishvili explains Merabishvili’s promotion

By | July 3rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

President Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday appointed interior minister Vano Merabishvili as prime minister. DF Watch spoke to Petre Tsiskarishvili about the surprise announcement. Tsiskarishvili is parliamentary leader of the majority National Movement party. He says that […]

Georgia’s new prime minister makes bold promises

By | July 3rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili has already started making promises, as only three months are left until the parliamentary elections. In a speech Monday in the Gldani district of Tbilisi, near a construction site of a vocational […]