TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first three months of 2014 was USD 2,523 million, according to precise data from the National Statistics Department, GeoStat, published on Thursday.
This is 18 percent more than it was in same period last
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili Thursday met with his Czech colleague Milos Zeman during a visit to Prague.
Mergvelashvili came to take part in the five year summit of the Eastern Partnership, a political effort by the EU to reform six former
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against former Interior Ministry officials Erekle Kodua and Gia Siradze for the beating of MP Valeri Gelashvili in 2005.
The Prosecutor’s Office made a statement about this issue on Thursday.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three former Interior Ministry officials were in court yesterday. They are on trial accused of having blackmailed a bodyguard of businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili in 2012, shortly before the parliamentary election.
At Thursday’s hearing witnesses said
TBILISI, DFWatch–Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Georgia’s Association Agreement with the EU is not a threat to Russia-Georgia relations.
Steinmeier, who is visiting Georgia with his French colleague Laurent Fabius, said at a press
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has left for Prague to participate in the five year anniversary summit of the Eastern Partnership.
According to president administration, Giorgi Margvelashvili will hold a speech at the summit on April 25.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A government spokesman in Georgia rejects a claim by ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili that US Vice President Joe Biden called and threatened sanctions.
Saakashvili claimed Biden threatened that the West would seize ex-Prime Minister Bidzina
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Georgian counterintelligence chief in exile has applied for political asylum in Greece.
Data Akhalaia, the former head of the Constitutional Security Department (Kudi) during the Saakashvili regime, is brother of the imprisoned former
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new movement has sprung up in Georgia in response to the government forcing through a gigantic hydro power project against strong popular resistance.
The movement is called Green Fist and began as a group of twenty youth who travelled
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian diplomat says Georgia must be on guard after the Russian Duma passed a bill which simplifies the rules for getting Russian citizenship.
The legislative amendment has been a cause of concern for groups in Georgia the last few weeks, with