Daily Archives: April 29, 2013

Ivanishvili optimistic about NATO membership prospects

By | April 29th, 2013|Categories: News, Security|Tags: |

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (center) attending NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Rose Roth Seminar in Tbilisi. (Official photo.) TBILISI, DFWatch–‘A magical recipe for Georgia’s NATO integration without offending Russia is Georgia becoming an interesting country,’ says Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. He said this Monday as he attended the 83rd Rose Roth Seminar of NATO’s […]

Georgia best nation in European Judo Championships

By | April 29th, 2013|Categories: News, Sport|Tags: , , , |

Amiran Papinashvili (left) and Lasha Shavdatuashvili, two of Georgia’s gold medalists this year. (Ministry of Sport.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia won the 2013 European Judo Championships for men with three gold, three silver and one bronze medal, followed by Russia with one gold, one silver and one bronze and France with one gold and six bronze. The Georgian team won a gold medal […]

Counting finishes in Georgia by-election

By | April 29th, 2013|Categories: Elections '12-'13, News|Tags: |

Voting underway Saturday at a precinct in Nadzaladevi, Tbilisi. (DFWatch photo.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream coalition’s candidates have won the by-election in all three districts, according to preliminary results after counting of votes in all precincts. The Central Election Commission on Sunday published the results of counting votes […]

1 877 politically motivated dismissals in local governments

By | April 29th, 2013|Categories: NGO news|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has found that 1 877 persons have been dismissed by gamgeoba, a local executive authority in districts, for political reasons. ISFED presented its third report about post-election […]

Ivanishvili says Georgia has softer tone towards Russia

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili speaking from his business center in Tbilisi. (Rustavi 2.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said Friday that Georgia has softened its tone towards Russia in the new security doctrine. But Defense Minister Irakli Alasania and Secretary of the National Security Council Giga Bokeria deny that Georgia […]