TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili says demands by influential NGOs to refine legislation to prevent illegal wiretapping is an attack against the government.
After the Saakashvili regime lost power in Georgia, several Tbilisi-based
TBILISI, DFWatch–Lawmakers in Georgia on Thursday passed an anti-discrimination bill after being pressured from the European Union. The bill was slightly modified after criticism from the Orthodox Church.
The Georgian Orthodoc Church was opposed to the bill because
TBILISI, DFWatch–The family of a deceased diplomat claims that he did not die from natural causes.
Levan Mikeladze was Georgian Ambassador to Switzerland. He died on April 26, 2009; officially from a heart attack.
Mikeladze resigned in protest after President
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Defense Minister Irakli Alasania asks NATO to install air defenses and other military systems in Georgia.
He made the call in a speech at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, on Wednesday.
“Now the West has to seize the
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO envoy James Appathurai will visit Georgia on Thursday.
Appathurai, whose full title is NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, will meet with government members and the parliament, the Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has decided to return books currently at Tbilisi State University that were brought here from Germany during World War II.
Shalva Tadumadze, the government’s parliamentary secretary, explained
TBILISI, DFWatch–Clerics in Georgia don’t want a Europe where ‘homosexuality is legalized,’ and call on parliament to not pass an anti-discrimination law required for the signing of an association agreement with the EU.
The Georgian parliament has two more
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian citizen has voluntarily handed over a large collection of military type weapons to the police department in Tbilisi.
The impressive weapons collection included an RPG-26 anti-tank grenade launcher, four prefabricated PG-9
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia have detained three Iraqi citizens who are suspected of rape of a minor in Tbilisi.
They are suspected of attempting to rape a fifteen year old boy on Tuesday at an apartment on Zandukeli Street in the center of the capital, but
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Defense Minister Irakli Alasania is to meet Chuck Hagel, US Secretary of Defense.
Alasania is on a working visit to the US and plans bilateral meetings at the Pentagon.
According to the Georgian Defense Ministry’s press office,