DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – A Russian Duma member calls Georgia’s lifting of visa rules for Russians propaganda.
Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said in his annual speech to parliament Tuesday night that he would drop visa requirements for all Russian citizens. Today,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The political party For a Renewed Georgia will today open a regional office in Mtskheta-Mtianeti north of Tbilisi for refugees from the Akhalgori region.
Party leaders will meet residents of Tsilknisi and Tserovani, two villages where most of the refugees
TBILISI, DFWatch – Only four candidates have been approved to participate in the March 25 election to fill the post as president of the de facto republic of South Ossetia, a Georgian breakaway region currently occupied by Russia.
Today the Central Election Commission
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili Tuesday February 28 gave his address to parliament and summarized the country’s situation as required by the Georgian Constitution.
The leader grouped his political plans into five main points: Tackling unemployment,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Israeli officials deny that there are in talks with Georgia about handing over control over the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem.
“This is news for us. We have heard nothing like that,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Yigal Palmor said,
TBILISI, DFWatch – There were tough exchanges in the Georgian parliament yesterday, with President Mikheil Saakashvili at one point leaving the room after recommending an opponent to take a therapeutic mud bath to get rid of his delusions.
The situation became so heated that
TBILISI, DFWatch – From this year, Georgians who sign up with a private or vocational school for learning a new profession will receive a 1 000 lari voucher from the government.
This was announced by President Mikheil Saakashvili during an annual speech to parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch – The president in Georgia promises health insurance for all large families from 2013.
Mikheil Saakashvili was making his annual address to parliament February 28.
He noted that after establishing this system in Georgia, one out of two will be insured.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia says this fall’s parliamentary election will be an important exam and says “conducting the freest elections which have ever been conducted is a question of national security.”
Mikheil Saakashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says his political force ‘has the resources to govern for many years and will never refuse this.’
The statement came during an annual speech to parliament Tuesday.
Giorgi Targamadze, leader of the Christian