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TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party is still planning to hold primary elections to select a candidate for the presidential election, even though party secretary Vano Merabishvili is in detention.
The names of the participants have not been revealed,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia has discovered an underground cache in the Samegrelo region, which borders with breakaway Abkhazia.
The cache contained ammunition, explosives and explosive devices, grenades, automatic rifles and other weapons.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is planning to introduce a law aimed at protecting the rights of religious, sexual, ethnic and other minorities in the country and avoid discrimination.
Speaking at Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Tbilisi, Justice Minister Thea
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards Sunday detained a Georgian citizen near the administrative border around Abkhazia.
A reporter for Interpressnews said Russian border guards took Tengiz Kurua from the village Orsantia, Zugdidi.
Kurua was walking along the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream bloc wants to keep having a relatively low threshold for amending the constitution and to give parliament longer time to work out a budget before it leads to a government’s dismissal and a new election.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A statement by the U.S Congress about defense cooperation with Georgia caused debate in the country on Saturday. Government officials claim the congress was misled by a lack of, or incorrect, information about current events, while their opponents claim
TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgia, two seats still remain vacant in the High Council of Justice after an election that has been going on for two weeks.
Four more members were elected by parliament in the second round, but due to objections by representatives from
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Friday prayer in Samtatskharo, a village in eastern Georgia, went ahead as normal without interruptions yesterday, after being canceled three weeks in a row due to protests by locals.
Minister of Reintegration Paata Zakareishvili showed up
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is proposing an amnesty for people who are in the possession of illegally obtained footage of someone’s private life and are willing to hand it over to the Interior Ministry.
A bill has been drafted and will soon
TBILISI, DFWatch–Families of dead military soldiers, including those who died during the war in Abkhazia in 90s and those who died as part of Georgian soldiers’ participation in the NATO-led ISAF force in Afghanistan, will receive USD 600 monthly from 2014.
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