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TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Saturday placed a man suspected of murdering two policemen in pre-trial detention.
The defense did not object to the Prosecutor General’s Office request for detention.
The suspect Shalva Abuladze and his lawyer said
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Friday met with Pope Francis in Rome.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili afterward summed up the meeting as a ‘very important’ one for Georgia.
He said he told the pontiff about security issues, the situation in the Caucasus
TBILISI, DFWatch–After a man suspected of killing two policemen evaded arrest for almost a week, Georgia’s prime minister says that government will be ‘ruthless toward crime’.
The announcement came after several law-enforcement ministers have talked about tougher
TBILISI, DFWatch–The suspect in the murder of two policemen, who was subject to a search by not only the police, but also counterintelligence, was apprehended near his hometown in an abandoned house on Friday.
The Interior Ministry confirmed this on Friday.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has signed an agreement with a British consultancy firm to reform the country’s healthcare system.
The goal of the agreement with Global Alliance for Health and Social Compact Ltd is to bring Georgia’s health system in line with European
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia today marks the restoration of independence in 1991. It is also a day of commemoration of an independence rally two years prior which was violently dispersed, resulting in twenty deaths.
After becoming independent in 1918, Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four Nigerian students were found dead in a Tbilisi apartment Wednesday night, apparently from gas poisoning due to a faulty water heater.
Three of them were students at Tbilisi State Medical University and one at Georgia’s University.
Their bodies were found
Tbilisi, DFWatch–NGOs in Georgia have revived their campaign This Affects You Too, and are launching a lawsuit against the Ministry of Internal Affairs for having direct access to communication operators’ networks and, thus, having ability to eavesdrop on citizens unchecked.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Defense Minister Mindia Janelidze explained in parliament Wednesday that a defense deal with France has not been put on hold.
His predecessor Irakli Alasania accused the government of halting the planned installation of new air
Tbilisi, DFWatch – President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, is visiting Georgia for the first time ever on April 23-24 to meet his Georgian counterpart, Giorgi Margvelashvili, as well as the prime minister and other officials.
Mr Lukashenko’s visit to Georgia was planned back in February, when he first