TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia maintains its demand that Georgia must do away with its law on the occupied territories, which makes it a crime for people to visit the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia without permission from official Tbilisi.
Gregory Karasin,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Seven Georgian soldiers died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan Thursday.
President Mikheil Saakashvili has called for a national day of mourning on June 7 and asked that all the flags be lowered.
The Ministry of Defense on Thursday informed that
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili Wednesday described the moving and fortifying of a de facto border between Georgian- and Russian-controlled territory in place since the war in 2008, as a call for everybody to resist Russian occupation.
“This session
TBILISI, DFWatch–The small-scale careful dialogue between Georgia and Russia continued in Prague Wednesday as Zurab Abashidze and Gregory Karasin met to sum up the results of six month of talks.
Abashidze, who was specially appointed by Prime Minister Bidzina
TBILISI, DFWatch–The NATO-Georgia commission held a session in Brussels on Wednesday as part of a meeting of ministers from member states.
The Alliance’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen opened the session by reiterating the importance of Georgia’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has called for an unscheduled session of Georgia’s National Security Council today at 4 pm.
Prime Minister Ivanishvili and several ministers who are abroad will not attend the meeting, but some government officials
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili claims the Washington Post is drawing conclusions based on information from President Mikheil Saakashvili’s lobbyists.
The newly elected head of government demands an answer as to how the newspaper gets
TBILISI, DFWatch–The trial of the two priests who are suspects regarding the violent clashes on May 17, is scheduled for July 15. Meanwhile the Prosecutor’s Office didn’t ask the court to place them in pre-trial detention or administrative punishment.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Vano Merabishvili says he is optimistic, but complains about lack of information, according to Krzysztof Lisek, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), after meeting the former Prime Minister in Matrosov Prison Tuesday.
Representatives of
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO is concerned about illegal separating constructions in the conflict zone, says the alliance’s Caucasus and Central Asia envoy James Appathurai.
Last week, Russian soldiers moved the so-called administrative border 300 meters on a point south