DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – One of China’s largest companies, Hualing Group, has bought a 90 percent share in Georgia’s Basis Bank.
Xinjiang Hualing Industry & Trade (Group) Co. Ltd., Basis Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development today held a joint press
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s former defense minister has been appointed new interior minister. The former education minister will take his place, and the former rector of Police Academy will be new education minister.
Bachana (“Bacho”) Akhalaia will take the position
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili has already started making promises, as only three months are left until the parliamentary elections.
In a speech Monday in the Gldani district of Tbilisi, near a construction site of a vocational
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili today presented his employment minister, which is a new post.
“I have initiative to set up specific Employment Ministry, which will take care to solve problems of employment. A database of unemployed
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia will host UEFA Super Cup in August 2015. This will be the first time Georgia is host country for an UEFA event.
According to the Georgian Football Federation, the decision was made in Kiev on Saturday at a session of the executive committee.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Again, a field meeting meant to defuse tension in the conflict region Abkhazia has broken down before it even started.
The meeting should have been held June 27, and was to have brought together operative leaders from the warring parties of 2008
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili says he is appointing Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili as new prime minister.
Saakashvili announced the decision from his presidential palace in Tbilisi shortly before 19 local time Saturday. Imedi TV broke
TBILISI, DFWatch – Heavy rain led to flooding in Georgia’s western Samegrelo region, causing material damages. Blocked roads prevented cleanup work some places.
Interpressnews reports there is a difficult situation in eight villages in Samegrelo. There is damage to
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s foreign debt has increased by USD 128.9 million since fourth quarter of 2011 and is now USD 11.4 billion. The National Bank today published data over the country’s foreign debt for first quarter in 2012. USD 3.8 billion of the total amount is public sector debt, which is 33 percent of … Read more
TBILISI, DFWatch – One day after President Saakashvili met regional governors and told them to guarantee that the election process is exemplary, a fistfight broke out during an opposition event near a Russian checkpoint north of Gori.
The fistfight on Tuesday was