DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s National Statistics Department notes growth in the country’s foreign trade turnover in the first half of 2012. Growth is 17 percent more than the same period in 2011 and equals USD 4 866 million.
Georgia is importing more than
TBILISI, DFWatch – Media workers in Georgia Thursday delivered another appeal to the Chief Prosecutor’s office, asking to revoke the seizure of satellite dishes belonging to Maestro TV.
The campaign first appealed to the prosecutor on July 23.
This time,
TBILISI, DFWatch – A bill to amend the 2012 budget to free money for cleanup work and compensation after a storm July 19 has been passed by parliament in Georgia.
The total size of the budget, more than 7 billion lari, has not been changed. Instead, money has
TBILISI, DFWatch – A former high-ranking member of parliament who was appointed new head of the audit service promises that he will be fair, independent, professional and objective.
Lasha Tordia was appointed to the position after the former head, Levan Bezhashvili, left
TBILISI, DFWatch – “Everything which is not secret, is public”. This is how the Georgian finance minister answers the opposition, who demand to know what the reserve funds have been spent on.
The two reserve funds, one controlled by the government and the other by
TBILISI, DFWatch – An elderly woman who tried to approach President Saakashvili to tell him about her family’s problems, ended up being dragged away from the TV cameras and locked in a cellar Tuesday.
The incident happened in Tsaishi, a village near
TBILISI, DFWatch – Saakashvili’s main competitor Bidzina Ivanisvhili yesterday gave 80 million lari to the state. This is about USD 48 million. He says the government has denied him of all other ways to help the disaster struck population, and therefore he decided
TBILISI, DFWatch – The head of parliament’s committee on human rights will replace the head of the audit service.
Davit Bakradze, Speaker of Parliament, announced the decision Tuesday during a visit to Abasha, small town in the Samegrelo region.
The audit service
TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia, the main opposition bloc Georgian Dream accuses the government of having recklessly spent the state reserve funds, set apart to handle disasters.
According to law, the two crisis funds, one controlled by the government and
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has started negotiations with the EU about liberalization of visa rules.
Today, the EU Commission’s Director General for Development met the Georgian deputy foreign minister in Brussels.
According to Georgia’s foreign ministry,