TBILISI, DFWatch–Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko Thursday called on Georgia to live in a ‘common family’ with Belarus and Russia.
“Europe’s last dictator” said he has never been to Georgia before, except Abkhazia, one of two Georgian regions
TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Belarus, who is on a first visit to Georgia, arrived in Tbilisi the day before official meetings, which are planned for April 23-24.
Even though the flight between Minsk and Tbilisi is over four hours, he arrived a day before with his
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili scolded the media on Tuesday for their coverage of Pankisi youth who become radicalized and join Islamic State in Syria.
The media have shown an ‘unnatural hysteria’ about this problem, which
TBILISI, DFWatch–Refurbishment work in a building intended as a new presidential palace is now finished and this has sparked a new round of bickering between the president and the government.
The minister of regional development and infrastructure stated during
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two persons died and one is in hospital with injuries after an accident at a construction site for a hydropower facility in Khulo, southwest in Georgia Friday night.
The two who died are Paata Iakobadze, a Georgian citizen, and Ahmed Chakmak,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian volunteer soldier was killed in Ukraine on April 18, fighting for the extreme right wing Azov battalion.
Giorgi Janelidze died during mine clearance work near the coastal town Shirokine.
The other fighters came under fire as they
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is to make it a crime to be a member of a terrorist organization or take part in a paramilitary group in another country.
The law was drafted after calls for the government to do more to stop the flow of youth joining the war in Syria.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Members of Mikheil Saakashvili’s party deliberately disrupted Friday’s parliamentary session because of a former official’s suicide attempt the day before.
The former special unit’s representative who attempted to commit suicide is detained
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Interior Minister and ally of Mikheil Saakashvil promises to take revenge for every official involved in the detention of former government officials.
“I will personally punish them. I will hold each of them responsible personally.”
Vano Merabishvili,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Austrian climbers were found dead on Thursday in a mountain region in Georgia. The two apparently froze to death.
The two tourists, a man and a woman, camped near the hill for several days. They left the camp on Wednesday to head