Daily Archives: April 1, 2013

Twin Deficit

By | April 1st, 2013|Categories: Economy, News, Opinion|

Irina Guruli is program coordinator at the Economic Policy Research Center. Twin deficit is a situation where a country’s economy is running two deficits at the same time: a fiscal deficit, and a deficit on the current account of the balance of payments. According to the twin deficit hypothesis, persistent fiscal shocks cause a deterioration […]

Church against minority languages charter

By | April 1st, 2013|Categories: News|

  Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II says it is unacceptable to renew talks about adopting the language charter (IPN photo) Tbilisi, DFWatch – Illia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgian Orthodox Church, considers unacceptable to renew talks about adopting the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, […]

Saakashvili may be interrogated for 2008 war and Imedi TV seizure, prosecutor says

By | April 1st, 2013|Categories: News|

Tbilisi, DFWatch – As Archil Kbilashvili, the Chief Prosecutor, said the president might be interrogated on the 2008 war between Georgia and Russia, seizure of independent TV by Saakashvili’s close ally and ‘some other cases’. […]