Daily Archives: June 17, 2016

Georgia protests against planned Abkhaz Cultural Institute in Italy

By | June 17th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , |

In April, Georgia forced an Abkhazian tourist exhibition to shut down at a tourism fair in Montenegro because it presented Abkhazia as an independent state. TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s ambassador to Italy, Kakha Sikharulidze, says the Georgian breakaway region Abkhazia will not be allowed to open a cultural institute in Rome. The planned Abkhaz Cultural Institute in Rome is an initiative by the de facto Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

Interview: ‘Thinking Citizen’ and ethnic Azerbaijani activism in Georgia

By | June 17th, 2016|Categories: Interviews|Tags: , |

Ruslan Asad is an Azerbaijani civil society activist and a co-founder of the Thinking Citizen (Düşünən Vətəndaş) project, which brings together young representatives of Georgia’s ethnic Azerbaijani community. He told DF Watch about the project’s aims, successes, and future plans in the context of issues faced by the community. […]

Merkel: Suspension mechanism before visa liberalization

By | June 17th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

‘Visa liberalisation for Georgia is not a distant matter,’ the German chancellor Angela Merkel stated during a joint conference with the Georgian prime minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Berlin on 15 June. […]