Prosecutors in Georgia have released the most detailed account yet of a high-profile contract killing in downtown Tbilisi earlier this year. The case combines business rivalries, cross-border travel, and alleged underworld ties. Investigators say brothers Giorgi and Davit Mikadze had a long-running dispute with Levan Jangveladze. Acting for themselves and others who also clashed with ... Read more
Prosecutors in Georgia have released the most detailed account yet of a high-profile contract killing in downtown Tbilisi earlier this year. The case combines business rivalries, cross-border travel, and alleged underworld ties. Investigators say brothers Giorgi and Davit Mikadze had a long-running dispute with Levan Jangveladze. Acting for themselves and others who also clashed with ... Read more
TBILISI, August 13 – The Georgian government will no longer subsidize private wine companies to buy surplus grapes. Instead, any grapes the private sector does not purchase will be bought directly by a state-owned enterprise, the Harvest Management Company, at fixed prices. In the eastern Kakheti region, the key Saperavi variety will be purchased at ... Read more
TBILISI, August 13 – Levan Makhashvili, head of parliament’s EU Integration Committee, says a strong voter turnout for the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) in the October 4 local elections would send a clear signal to the ‘Brussels bureaucracy’ against what he calls a pressure campaign on Georgia. The EU has voiced concerns over recent Georgian ... Read more
