TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry says one person has been arrested for smuggling explosive material to Zugdidi, after crossing the administrative border line with Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia.
“Explosive material was seized by the Sappers Division
TBILISI, DFWatch – A new poll shows that no matter who is nominated to suceed Mikheil Saakashvili, his party will win the next Georgian presidential election.
A poll by the International Republican Institute shows that Saakashvili’s National Movement party still has
TBILISI, DFWatch – The new parliament building in Georgia will be only partly completed by the time of the opening session on May 26.
In 2011, Mikheil Saakashvili announced that he would move parliament to Kutaisi, Georgia’s second biggest city. He also said that
TBILISI, DFWatch – The American investor Donald Trump praised Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on the morning talk show Fox & Friends recently, calling him “one of the great leaders of the world”.
The billionaire and TV personality had just returned from a trip
TBILISI, DFWatch – In first four months of 2012, 61 per cent more people came to Georgia, compared to the same period the previous year.
978 521 person visited Georgia between January and April this year, according to the Interior Ministry.
Over three hundred thousand
TBILISI, DFWatch – The prime ministers of Georgia and Lithuania today signed a memorandum of understanding.
The MoU deals with cooperation within local government between Lithuania’s national assembly, the Seimas’s Committee on State Administration and Local Government
TBILISI, DFWatch – A team of election experts from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) will visit Georgia June 11-16.
The OSCE’s Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) is sending a mission in connection with Georgia’s
TBILISI, DFWatch – A delegation from Lithuania’s Seimas will visit Georgia on Monday.
In the morning, the delegation which are members of the Seimas’ Committee on State Administration and Local Government, will participate in a Georgian-Lithuanian forum about local
TBILISI, DFWatch – The National Bank of Georgia Wednesday decided to lower the main refinancing rate by a quarter point to 6.25%.
Lowering the rate now is an indication that the bank has an optimistic view of the country’s economy. In a statement, the bank notes that the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Defense Ministry informs that another soldier has died in Afghanistan, bringing the total number of servicemen lost there to sixteen.
Valerian Khujadze was serving in the 31st Battalion in the volatile Helmand province. The incident happened on