TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian prime minister claims Russia is preparing to annex two Georgian breakaway regions.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said this while meeting NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Monday.
One of the topics discussed was the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has begun examining the finances of the biggest government ministries.
This follows findings by the Audit Office of violations in several ministries expenditures.
Head of the Audit Office, Lasha Tordia, said
TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of the Kodori Gorge mutiny in 2006 was Monday sentenced to 12 years in jail.
Emzar Kvitsiani was convicted of mutiny and forming an illegal paramilitary group.
His lawyer said they will appeal the verdict to the Appeals
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former ruling party mobilized several thousand people on Saturday for an anti-Russia themed rally and blamed the government for inaction in the face of what it claimed is impending Russian annexation of two breakaway regions.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three Georgian soldiers were injured at a military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, as a suicide bomber blew himself up while the Georgians were patrolling the area.
The Ministry of Defense said the health of soldiers is in no danger. They were taken
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former government representatives from the years following the rose revolution in 2003 are holding a rally in central Tbilisi today to protest against Russia’s annexation of two breakaway regions.
National Movement members claim this is
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili said in an address to parliament on Friday that he has warned that there would be problems if people continued to distrust the country’s institutions.
“During the recent year, I have repeatedly underlined
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian economy minister Kakha Bendukidze died Thursday in London, aged 58.
Bendukidze was an important strategist for the economic liberalization which started during President Saakashvili from 2004.
Friends and acquaintances wrote
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has opened another investigation against the Defense Ministry, which is already subject to two investigations which prompted the minister’s dismissal last week.
This time the investigation is based on material
TBILISI, DFWatch–One of the experts who was involved in the autopsy following the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania in 2005 was found dead in his apartment on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Tbilisi City Court finished the hearing for another expert and listened