TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has set up a new board of military advisers in the Defense Ministry.
The point of having the new advisors there is to aid in the transformation process of Georgia’s armed forces.
The advisors will analyze
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, have been given even more power to manage the sale of state property.
Parliament has adopted a law which gives the president freedom to set the period of payment for state property when selling real estate
TBILISI, DFWatch – The former Soviet republic of Georgia is seeing a steady increase in foreigners visiting. Iranians account for the highest growth in visits.
According to the country’s Interior Ministry, 38.9% more foreigners arrived in Georgia in 2011, compared to
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili hopes a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU will make unemployment disappear in Georgia.
Saakashvili made his statement while visiting an Abipharm pharmaceutical plant in the village Tserovani near
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Constitutional Court has decided that parliament did not have the right to give prosecutors powers to conduct secret wiretappings.
Tamar Khidasheli and Georgian Young Lawyers Association filed a lawsuit at the Constitutional Court regarding
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 – 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 – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili claims that the Netherlands wants to copy Georgia’s health care system.
He said this during his annual speech to parliament on February 28.
Speaking about the system implemented in Georgia, he said new hospitals
TBILISI, DFWatch – EU foreign ministers have issued a paper setting out to integrate Georgia more in the Union.
The paper is a broad review of relations between Georgia and the EU and the country’s security.
It notes that there has been progress in the Eastern