TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday made his first comments regarding the news that he is asked to testify in ten serious criminal cases in his home country.
Many of his closest associates have been put on trial in the last two
TBILISI, DFWatch–Demonstrators in Georgia Tuesday demanded that former President Mikheil Saakashvili returns to his home country and answers questions from prosecutors.
Two people were detained for throwing red paint at party symbols outside the National Movement
TBILISI, DFWatch–A protest in the Georgian village Kazreti, where people protested the treatments of workers in the gold mines, ended on Monday.
RMG Gold, the company which owns the mines in Kazreti, reached agreement with the demonstrators, who protest against
TBILISI, DFWatch–Anti-gay activists and clerics want to be more tough toward LGBT rights activists if the latter demonstrate for their rights on May 17, on the one-year anniversary of a violent attacks on them organized by Orthodox priests.
Pressed with multiple
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three people were detained in Tbilisi on Monday as supporters and opponents of NATO clashed outside the Cinema House.
Tension was already high during the screening of a 30 minutes long film about NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover January-February, 2014, was USD 1 567 million. This is a 17 percent increase, compared to the same period last year.
Precise figures from Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, show that export accounted
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two men detained for negligence in connection with the death of former Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania were Sunday placed in pre-trial detention by Tbilisi City Court.
Levan Chachua, who participated in the autopsy on Zhvania’s body in 2005, and Mikheil
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Western partners are threatening that prosecuting former President Saakashvili may jeopardize an EU treaty and membership in NATO.
Georgia has for years sought closer integration with the European Union and membership in NATO. In June,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian soldiers are participating in a two-week joint NATO-Ukraine military exercise in eastern Bulgaria, 400 km from Crimea.
The exercise, which started Friday. is called Saber Guardian and has been planned for about a year.
It involves 700
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili will be declared a wanted person if he doesn’t come and answer questions in a long list of criminal cases.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said this today.
“If he does not come, he will be declared