TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is extending maternity leave and increasing the amount of paid leave.
Parliament Wednesday began a fast-track review of the new bill, which will amend the labor code; an initiative of the healthcare committee.
With the new
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TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili Monday met with President Barack Obama in New York.
The brief conversation too place at a civil society event in connection with the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has left for the US to go on a working visit and deliver a speech at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
The president will also hold bilateral meetings with the leaders of different countries,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Russian citizen who was detained for shooting a cop in Batumi is suspected of murdering a Russian diplomat in Abkhazia on September 9.
According to Russian channel NTV, Yusuf Lakayev is suspected of murdering the Russian envoy to the breakaway
TBILISI, DFWatch–Wednesday there were two more false bomb reports in Georgia.
The target of one of the hoax calls was the central office of Bank of Georgia. No bomb was discovered.
An adult was apprehended and may be risking up to three years in jail.
The other
TBILISI, DFWatch–The public broadcaster in Georgia on Tuesday reported that the Russian Olympic Committee has listed Abkhazia and South Ossetia as separate countries to take part in the winter Olympics in Sochi in February.
“This is very unpleasant precedent and we
TBILISI, DFWatch–The President of the Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE, Ranko Krivokapic, is visiting Georgia for three days, starting Monday.
Krivokapic, who is also the Speaker of Parliament in Montenegro, will hold meetings with government officials and members of
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia and Switzerland has signed an agreement about simplifying procedures for the issuing of visas between the two countries.
Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze signed the agreement during a visit to her Swiss colleague Didier Burkhalter, according
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Central Election Commission in Georgia Wednesday chose Tamar Zhvania as new chair.
Zhvania previously worked on election issues at UNDP. She received the votes of all six of the commission members.
President Mikheil Saakashvili on Monday
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Appeals Court in Georgia Tuesday upheld a decision by the Central Election Commission (CEC) to not allow Salome Zourabichvili to register as a presidential candidate.
Zourabichvili earlier lost an appeal in Tbilisi City Court.
The CEC’s decision,