DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – John Bass, U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, says that Hillary Clinton will visit Georgia.
In late 2011, it was reported that the US Secretary of State’s was going to visit Georgia, and February was mentioned as a probable date for her arrival. But the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s foreign minister and his Azeri colleague have decided to find a solution to the situation at the Davit Gareja Monastery complex while the two meet at the NATO summit in Chicago May 20 and 21.
Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs writes
TBILISI, DFWatch – Giorgi Targamadze (pictured) is one of the sources for a new report former EU Ambassador to Georgia Per Eklund is writing about the election environment ahead of the parliamentary elections in October.
Eklund met with the Christian Democrats parliamentary
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first four months of 2012 grew 18 percent compared to the same period in 2011.
Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, reported on Wednesday that preliminary figures for January-April 2012 show that
TBILISI, DFWatch – Opposition representatives in Georgia say the flood that took five lives Sunday could have been prevented.
The discussion led to a street scuffle between a district governor and an opposition party representative.
Besik Gazdeliani, Deputy Governor
TBILISI, DFWatch – As Georgia’s capital was drenched in rain water, and a stream flooded a district, killing five, reports went out from the national emergency agency that what caused the disaster was that the river Mtkvari had burst its banks.
Mtkvari is the largest
TBILISI, DFWatch – Lawmakers in Georgia have finally achieved consensus for constitutional changes which will give opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili the right to participate in elections, without being a Georgian citizen.
The amendment was originally proposed
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Saakashvili regime has finally revealed how much it is spending on building a new parliament building: USD 82.5 million.
Finance minister Dimitry Gvindadze says the whole process with building a new parliament is completely transparent.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has obtained a listing on London Stock Exchange for obligations in Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation.
Securities valued USD 250 million were placed on one of the world’s most famous stock exchanges on May 9.
According to Kommersant, the lowest
TBILISI, DFWatch – Prisons in Georgia are to become more crowded, as the maximum limit on number of inmates is raised, and two prisons are closed down.
It’s the controversial Minister for Corrections and Legal Assistance, Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, who has ordered the