TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will attend the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit to be held March 27-28 in Seoul, South Korea.
The president’s press spokesperson Manana Manjgaladze said this at a regular briefing Tuesday.
According to the summit’s
TBILISI, DFWatch – The delegations of the U.S. and the EU in Georgia do not recognize the recent de facto parliamentary elections in Abkhazia as legitimate.
Both have releases statements expressing support for Georgia’s territorial integrity.
“The United States
TBILISI, DFWatch – Eastern Partnership Georgia appeals to the EU for help in the case of party financing rules.
Authorities in Georgia enforced new tough restrictions on party financing last December, and made the rules apply also to organizations and individuals ‘indirectly’
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia halted the flow of Russian natural gas to Armenia on Saturday, due to a technical accident on the pipeline caused by a landslide near the village of Mamkoda near Tbilisi.
Energy minister Alexander Khetaguri said Saturday that
TBILISI, DFWatch – Foreign direct investment in Georgia is increasing dramatically, and much of it comes from companies registered in the British Virgin Island, a known tax haven with low transparency.
Foreign direct investments increased by 58% in the
TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition billionaire in the former Soviet republic of Georgia Tuesday had meetings with representatives for the movement behind a protest wave which ended in a fatal clash with police in May 2011.
Bidzina Ivanishvili met with People’s Assembly,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev March 6 during a two-day visit to the country.
A press release from the Azerbaijani president’s administration says that the two expressed satisfaction with how
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia increases its sentencing of hate crimes.
A new bill to amend the Criminal Code will make it mandatory for courts to use the maximum sentence if the crime was motivated by racial, linguistic, religious, national or ethnic prejudice.
For every
TBILISI, DFWatch – Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterates that Georgia is eligible for membership in the alliance sometime in the future when all criteria are met.
Fogh Rasmussen said this at a regular briefing when asked by journalists how a potential
TBILISI, DFWatch – 92.77% of the voters in South Ossetia voted for Vladimir Putin as president of Russia. In the other breakaway republic Abkhazia, 90.94% of voters supported Putin in the presidential elections.
15,839 voters participated in the election in South Ossetia, Ria