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TBILISI, DFWatch – The government’s action plan ‘More Benefits to People’ is entirely based on social issues. This is now sparking criticism from experts and government opponents.
The first promise new Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili made was to give each family
TBILISI, DFWatch – Another central figure in Georgia’s Interior Ministry resigns, after recent changes in the government.
Shota Utiashvili, former head of the Ministry’s Department for Analysis, today announced his decision to leave.
He did not say who will be his
TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany’s Christian Democrat party calls for democratic elections in Georgia in October.
In a press release entitled Ensure Fair Elections in Georgia, the CDU’s faction in the Bundestag calls for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to take
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