TBILISI, DFWatch – U.S. senator Richard Durbin is visiting Georgia today to discuss regional safety and US-Georgia relations.
The visit will last two days. He will meet with President Mikheil Saakashvili, as well as representatives of the opposition and organizations.
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili says his country expects a new attack from Russia by October, when parliament elections are to be held. But he things it will fail.
Saakashvili is on a visit to Latvia together with his wife, and made the statement
TBILISI, DFWatch – The police detained eight activists in front of parliament today.
The eight were protesting against the arrest of their friends on May 26, near Gelati Monastery, near Kutaisi in western Georgia.
The protesters were from three organizations:
TBILISI, DFWatch – James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, will arrive in Georgia on June 11.
NATO’s information center in Tbilisi told DF Watch on Tuesday that Appathurai is coming to Georgia to plan for
TBILISI, DFWatch –The U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will visit Georgia June 5.
Clinton starts her South Caucasus tour on June 4 in Armenia. After visiting Georgia, she will leave for Azerbaijan June 6, according to the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi.
During the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia fell one place in the Global Enabling Trade Report 2012.
The list is published by the World Economic Forum (weforum.org). It contains 132 countries and ranks them according to how well they perform in market access, border administration
TBILISI, DFWatch – Four Georgians have been detained after having crossed into the breakaway region South Ossetia.
The four were detained on May 21 and 22 after going on a trip to pick staphylea, a plant which is used for common sour dish in Georgia.
Shota Utiashvili,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia regrets that NATO was unable to make findings regarding the events of August 2008. The Russian Foreign Ministry says Russia accepts with regret NATO’s decision regarding Georgia.
“One of these complex issues is the situation in the South
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia once again has postponed placing shares of the state-owned Georgian Railway on London Stock Exchange.
The debut should have been on May 24, but the government has again decided to postpone it.
Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said that
TBILISI, DFWatch – One of President Mikheil Saakashvili’s top officials says he was taken by surprise by an open letter from opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili yesterday, in which he said that he will not make use of a new tailor-made constitutional change