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TBILISI, DFWatch–A theater play featuring Russian actor Sergei Bezrukov has been canceled in Tbilisi, because of his support for Russia’s policy toward Crimea.
The background is a petition signed by artists living and working in Russia who support President Putin’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia offers investors a favorable environment and a market of potentially 900 million people, Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said during the Georgia-Israel Business Forum.
Gharibashvili mentioned that a common system of allowances with 8 countries,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia may move one step closer to joining NATO as a result of the Ukraine crisis.
If Russia annexes Crimea, NATO will offer Georgia a Membership Action Plan (MAP), Russian daily Kommersant reported on Tuesday.
The paper based its report on sources
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian capital plans to dismantle its so-called Khrushchovkas, a type of low-cost apartment blocks that were built in Tbilisi during the Soviet Union.
The project will be carried out by an investment holding company based in
TBILISI, DFWatch–The direct talks between Georgia and Russia have been postponed again.
Zurab Abashidze, the Georgian Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Russian Relations, and Gregory Karasin, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia should have met on March 4-5,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is starting a pilot project to introduce electronic government, or e-government.
Representatives of the Justice Ministry on Monday presented an action plan for 2014-2018 named ‘digital Georgia’ which has 11 priority areas.
The goal is
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia may change the rules for VAT taxation and abolish advantages for importers of certain categories of goods.
Parliament has started reviewing the draft, but the National Movement criticizes it and says they believe members of the ruling
TBILISI, DFWatch–Negotiations have started in a Georgian village where the population has been on strike to protest the treatment of workers in the gold mines.
A mediator appointed by the Ministry of Health held a first round of negotiations in Kazreti in the southern
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Barack Obama writes in a letter that he hopes to meet Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili at the third Nuclear Security Summit in the Hague 23-25 March.
The US president’s letter to Gharibashvili, published on Monday,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s State Commission for NATO Integration on Monday approved the annual national program (ANP) for 2014, which will be presented to NATO.
Alexi Petriashvili, Minister of Euro and Euro-Atlantic Integration, chaired