Friday, December 5, 2025

Bankruptcy frees companies of all debt

Vladimer Papava, economics professor at Georgian Foundation for International and Strategic Studies, says the law seems tailormade to help some particular companies ahead of the election in October 2012.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A new law lets companies escape all debt if they go bankrupt, freeing the owners of all responsibilities.

Following a decision by the government, companies in Georgia will be able to liquidate without paying debts. Creditors won’t be able to ask

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German-Georgian relations reaffirmed in Tbilisi

Cornelia Pieper, Germany's deputy foreign minister, is happy to see the progress in talks about a Georgian association agreement with the EU. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany is satisfied with how the negotiations between Georgia and the EU are going, to work out an association agreement.

Cornelia Pieper, Germany’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, said this after a meeting with her Georgian colleague.

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Georgian Railways is to be listed on London stock exchange

Georgia's prime minister, Nika Gilauri, says that a plan to place state-owned companies on the London Stock Exchange was postponed by troubles in the financial markets last fall, but the plan is now back on track. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Railways is set to be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), becoming the second Georgian companies to achieve a listing, after Bank of Georgia.

Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said April 12 that the government was planning to place several

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Allegations of a plot against Ivanishvili not taken seriously

Former Public Defender, and now Ivanishvili supporter, Sozar Subari believes there is a plot by the government to kill opposition businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The government in Georgia does not take seriously allegations about the existence of a plan to kill President Saakashvili’s main competitor, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

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But one of the politicians in Ivanishvili’s coalition says that

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Georgia protests destruction of royal grave in Moscow

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, a prince and writer who lived in the 18th century, is buried at Vsesvyatsky Cemetery in Moscow.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Foreign Ministry has formally protested against how Russia is treating a royal cemetary in Moscow.

Tbilisi believes that authorities in Moscow are going ahead with construction work on the cemetary, which contains the graves of the

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Georgia to amend constitution in Ivanishvili case

The government in Georgia is changing the constitution and giving EU citizens the right to run for office. Bidzina Ivanishvili (pictured above) is a citizen of France. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s main competitor will be allowed to participate in the parliamentary elections in October, after the government agreed to amend the constitution.

Following the amendment, EU citizens can run in elections in Georgia.

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Georgia snubs German diplomat over alleged Nazi comment

Nino Kalandadze, spokesperson for Georgia's foreign ministry, says it is categorically unacceptable of a German diplomat to say that Georgia should "admit its mistakes towards enemies and victims, as Nazi Germany did in its time". Dieter Boden denies having said it. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has broken off relations with a distinguished German diplomat, alleging he compared the Saakashvili regime to Nazi Germany.

Dieter Boden, who negotiated a peace plan for how to solve the conflict with breakaway Abkhazia ten years ago, told

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Saakashvili welcomes foreign election observers

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said he welcomes election observers and wants many opinion polls, while meeting with Euronest, the parliamentary component of the Eastern Partnership. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Sakashvili says Georgia as never before needs many foreign observers.

“We need many international observers not only on the day of the elections but today, tomorrow, and the day after. The sooner observers arrive from the

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