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TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Monday defended a new network of voluntary reservists which the main opposition bloc has warned are paramilitaries meant for starting a civil war.
Saakashvili, speaking at an event to mark 23 years since
TBILISI, DFWatch – About 30 000 Russians have entered Georgia since visa restrictions were lifted February 28.
This is seventy per cent higher than the same period last year.
Before President Mikheil Saakashvili the liberalized visa rules for Russians, there was visa
TBILISI, DFWatch – Speaking on April 9, officially known as The Day of National Unity, President Mikheil Saakashvili warned against his country’s enemy within.
Addressing soldiers in the yard of the parliament building on the important public holiday dedicated to unity,
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili announced the test flight in a speech April 9.
The date is symbolically significant as a peaceful demonstration for independence was attacked by Soviet troops here in Tbilisi in 1989.
Saakashvili made reference to
TBILISI, DFWatch – April 9 is 21 year anniversary for the restoration of Georgia’s independence and 23 years since the Soviet Union used soldiers to disperse a peaceful protest in Tbilisi.
Georgian society, government and opposition remembered this day on Rustaveli
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia’s chief sanitary inspector is concerned about the deployment of U.S. military laboratories at former Soviet medical institutions in Ukraine and Georgia.
According to NEWSru, a Russian news website owned by Gazprom, Gennady Onishchenko
TBILISI, DFWatch – The museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in his hometown of Gori in Georgia will change name to the Museum of Stalinism.
The Ministry of Culture is behind the idea that the museum will offer visitors a historical account of stalinism,
TBILISI, DFWatch – In South Ossetia, the opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has decided to set up a new political party.
April 7, an organizing committee for the new party called ‘Iriston – Freedom Square’ met at Dzhioyeva’s headquarters, Ekho Kavkaza reports.
“We
TBILISI, DFWatch – A former local head of the KGB in South Ossetia has won the presidential elections in the breakaway region. Leonid Tibilov received about 55 percent of the votes beating competitor David Sanakoyev, presidential human rights commissioner.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch – More than 13 percent of voters in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia had cast their vote in the presidential election by 10:00 in the morning.
The Central Election Commission of the region says this is a higher turnout than in the first