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TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili on Thursday met President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė at the president’s palace.
Grybauskaitė and Ivanishvili discussed bilateral relations and views on how to strengthen them.
The Georgian
TBILISI, DFWatch–For more than three weeks, activists and supporters of the Georgian Dream coalition have been protesting in front of town hall in Ozurgeti in the western Guria region of Georgia, against the acting head of the municipality.
The activists have set up
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Patriarch will visit Russia for the 1025th epiphany anniversary.
Events for the anniversary will be held in Moscow, Kyiv and Minsk.
Patriarch Ilia II will visit all three cities accompanied by a Georgian delegation July 23-30.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new amendment to the election code will require top officials to resign two days after they are registered as candidates in the presidential election.
The new regulations will apply to the prime minister, ministers of autonomous republics
TBILISI, DFWatch–EU’s enlargement commissioner Štefan Füle has spoken by phone to the UNM Secretary General and former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, who is in detention waiting to face trial.
According to Merabishvili’s Facebook page, the European
TBILISI, DFWatch–The human rights committee in parliament has passed a statement about the events of May 17, when radical priests and their supporters disrupted a peaceful demonstration against homophobia in Tbilisi.
Before the final adoption on Tuesday, there have
TBILISI, DFWatch–One person has died after an explosion in a mine in Chiatura, a town in the central parts of Georgia.
This is sixth person who have died while working in the manganese mines the last three years. 11 have been so severely injured that they are unable
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia denies that there were violations or acts of brutality by the police during the questioning Mamuka Mikautadze, who a few weeks ago was reported to have killed himself the after he was questioned at the police station.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards have detained five more Georgian citizens for crossing the de facto border near the breakaway region South Ossetia.
A journalist working for Interpressnews reports that three Georgians were detained in the village Akhalubani
TBILISI, DFWatch–Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili has picked his own replacement, as he prepares for the race to be Georgia’s next president.
The Georgian Dream coalition chose Margvelashvili as its candidate in the upcoming election, and although Georgian