TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Saturday detained a former official in the Defense Ministry and charged him with illegally owning and keeping a weapon.
Alexandre Ninua, former head of the purchasing department at the ministry, was placed in pre-trial detention the same day.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Airways will offer direct flights between Tbilisi and the Olympic village Sochi from February 4, 2014, in connection with the upcoming Winter Games.
There will be flights between Tbilisi and Sochi every Tuesday and Thursday until May.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has placed a former deputy chief prosecutor in pre-trial detention.
Davit Chkhatarashvili, the former deputy of former Chief Prosecutor Murtaz Zodelava, was December 7 detained and charged with organizing staged torture videos
TBILISI, DFWatch–4 973 632 people visited Georgia in January-November, 2013 according to the Interior Ministry.
This is 22.6 percent more than the same period last year, and 12.3 period more than the total number of visitors in 2012.
The highest number of visitors
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukrainian opposition MP, Ruslan Koshulinski, who is deputy speaker of parliament, broke off his visit to Georgia due to the protests in Kyiv.
Koshulinski visited Georgia in order to attend the sixth session of the parliamentary assembly of GUAM;
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has strongly criticized the former ruling party, the National Movement, in an interview on Russia Today, the state-owned Russian television station.
It’s a bit difficult to understand the opposition, they
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Yerevan today for the first time in five years.
Russian media report that during his visit, Putin will meet with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan.
There will also be held a Russia-Armenia regional
TBILISI, DFWatch–Representatives from the GUAM countries will meet in Tbilisi on Monday.
The occasion is the sixth session of the Parliamentary Assembly of GUAM, a cooperation between Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
Zurab Abashidze, chairman of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian man has been released from a holding facility in South Ossetia after first being detained two days ago for trespassing.
Malkhaz Vanishvili, 24, from the village Khurvaleti near the de facto border, was detained together with Gocha Makishvili.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new agreement between Georgia and Switzerland about simplified visa rules will come into force on January 1, 2014.
According to the Georgian Foreign Affairs Ministry, the two countries have completed all the procedures related to the agreement