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TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Friday canceled a decision by the Culture Ministry to remove the protected area status of Sakdrisi, an ancient gold mine which archaeologists say has more than 5,400 years old traces of humans.
The court’s decision means
TBILISI, DFWatch–EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso Thursday arrived in Georgia on the second leg of his visit to countries on Russia’s southwestern perimeter.
Barroso said the Association Agreement Georgia is to sign on June 27 is not ‘exclusive’,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream coalition on Thursday withdrew its candidate for gamgebeli in Marneuli in Sunday’s local election, explaining that it was necessary in order to avoid making it into a purely ethnic vote.
The National Movement is running with an
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party is under investigation for pretending to be victim of political persecution.
Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani has asked the Prosecutor’s Office to investigate whether the National Movement
TBILISI, DFWatch–Batumi City Court on Wednesday sentenced a man to 12 years in jail, who is suspected of murdering a Russian diplomat and his wife in Abkhazia last year.
Yusuf Lakayev, an ethnic Chechen, was charged with illegally crossing the border, illegally
TBILISI, DFWatch–José Manuel Barroso will visit Georgia Thursday and Friday.
The two day stopover will be the EU Commission president’s first official visit to Georgia.
Barroso is arriving from Moldova, and will leave for Azerbaijan on June 14.
During
TBILISI, DFWatch–The family of a forest ranger who was killed in 2008 demonstrated in Zugdidi Wednesday.
Ranger Davit Tsindeliani is still formally missing, but is believed to have been killed in August 2008, after the war between Russia and Georgia.
His family
TBILISI, DFWatch–The State Audit Office wants to fine the political parties Alliance of Georgia’s Patriots, Conservative Party and Georgia’s Way.
The body which monitors the financial activity of political parties claims that Alliance of Georgia’s Patriots didn’t declare donations
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Trade Union demonstrated outside a hospital in Tbilisi on Tuesday to show solidarity with workers who were burnt in a fire in a coal mine the day before.
Two of the injured workers after the fire in a Tkibuli coal mine are still in a difficult
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliamentary election in South Ossetia Sunday was soundly won by a political bloc which wants the breakaway region to join the Russian Federation.
The party Edinaya Ossetia, or United Ossetia, has union with Russia as a