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TBILISI, DFWatch–A second meeting between Georgian and Russian representatives will be held on March 1, 2013, in a European country, but not in Geneva.
Zurab Abashidze, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Russian Relations, said in an interview on
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has lifted the veil on what was said in an unusual conversation between him and President Mikheil Saakashvili last month.
The two leaders, who are maneuvering a precarious power-sharing situation,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Bidzina Ivanishvili was Saturday elected honorable chairman of the Georgian Dream Democratic Georgia Party.
The Prime Minister’s Party on Saturday held a large congress at Tbilisi Concert Hall to elect a political council and a party chairman.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava has left the police building after three hours of questioning. He said that he thinks he won’t be questioned again about the street violence he was involved in on February 8.
The mayor was questioned as a witness
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream coalition and the National Movement Party agree to reduce the powers of the president.
This will need immediate enforcement of that part of the constitution which applies to the powers of the president and which should have been
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is to speed up the transfer of Turkish prisoners to Turkey, to let them be closer to their family as they serve out the rest of their sentence.
The government wants to make it easier for people to care for a family member who is in prison,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court Friday issued a ruling that orders the city’s mayor, Gigi Ugulava, to appear before the police and explain himself about a massive street scuffle that he was involved in February 8.
The court instructs Interior Ministry employees
TBILISI, DFWatch–By-elections will be held April 27 in three districts of Georgia to fill seats made vacant when members of parliament were appointed to government positions last year.
The three districts are Nadzaladevi in Tbilisi, and Baghdati and Samtreida, two
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement continues to lose members in the Tbilisi City Council, but still controls a majority of seats.
Zura Gachechiladze, known as Shonzo, on Friday left the National Movement and joined the alternative Freedom faction.
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