Daily Archives: March 13, 2013

Progress in prisoner exchange with Tskhinvali

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Public Defender Ucha Nanuashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–There are twelve Georgian prisoners in South Ossetia, a breakaway Georgian region, according to the public defender Ucha Nanuashvili. He told Pirveli Radio Wednesday that his office has received positive signal from non-government organizations in […]

Merabishvili ‘connected’ to controversial 2006 killing

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Vano Merabishvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s chief prosecutor and justice minister claim that the long time former interior minister Vano Merabishvili was implicated in the killing of Sandro Girgvliani, a controversial murder committed by the police in 2006. Chief Prosecutor Archil […]

Student protest at Agriculture University

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Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili met the students Tuesday. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last two days, students at an agricultural college have been at the center of a dispute between the governing Georgian Dream coalition and supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili. The dispute began with the […]

‘Misinformed or shameful’ letter by European People’s Party

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Speaker of the Georgian parliament, Davit Usupashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–23 members of the European parliament for the European People’s Party are criticized for being either misinformed or else writing a ‘shameful’ letter to the prime minister of Georgia. “That letter is a shame, or the MEPs didn’t know […]