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TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian and Russian negotiators Zurab Abashidze and Gregory Karasin have postponed their planned meeting until March 14.
Abashidze, the Georgian Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Russian Relations and Karasin, Russia’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–France has refused to extradite former Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili to Georgia.
Kezerashvili is charged with acquiring a large amount of money and for receiving a bribe while he was minister.
He is also implicated in the Imedi TV case,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili was Thursday sentenced to four years and six months in jail in a case concerning the dispersal of a peaceful anti-government rally on May 26, 2011.
Tbilisi City Court has been reviewing the case for
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover was USD 761 million in January 2014 according to precise data published by Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat. This is 15 percent more than in 2013.
Export was USD 224 million, which is 14 percent
TBILISI, DFWatch–US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Georgia in spring 2014.
Kerry said after a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Wednesday that he is looking forward to coming to Georgia and that the trip might take place in spring.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has released the lawyer of a former defense minister against a 20 000 lari (USD 12 000) bail.
Goga Oniani, a former high police official during Saakashvili who now is a lawyer representing the ex-minister Bacho Akhalaia, is charged
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers have resumed the installation of warning signs and barbed wire at villages near the border with the breakaway region South Ossetia.
A sign warning about the de facto border was installed in the village Ghogheti near Kareli on Tuesday.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is creating a temporary commission to monitor the financing of political parties.
The new body will be staffed by people from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and will be based at the State Audit Office.
Its general director, Lasha
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has ordered the detention of a lawyer for former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia.
Giorgi Oniani is charged with abuse of power, falsification of evidence about especially grave crime and purposeful unlawful
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Monday met with US Vice President Joe Biden at the White House. President Barack Obama later joined the meeting.
Topics included the US-Georgia strategic partnership, the prospects for Georgia’s integration