TBILISI, DFWatch–The interior minister in Georgia Thursday destroyed 110 DVDs containing highly sensitive footage illegally acquired by the domestic intelligence during President Saakashvili’s government.
The DVDs contained 144 files, totaling 181 hours, and were fed
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian citizens who are currently in Syria will return home on September 8, Archil Dzuliashvili, Georgian Ambassador to Egypt, said Thursday.
Georgia will cover transportation costs for 18 of its citizens in order to bring them home from Syria,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Despite the great public interest, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili refrains from naming his replacement as he steps down in the near future.
Georgia’s next head of government will benefit from a constitutional change which invests the prime minister with
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia offers to assist in returning Georgian citizens to their home country from Syria.
Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili told media Wednesday that the offer was conveyed to Zurab Abashidze, the prime minister’s special representative for relations with
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says he will only deal with Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party through mediators and suggests that they present their views to experts who then will explain it to the government.
Ivanishvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanisvhili doesn’t rule out that Georgia might join the Eurasian Union, which will span most of the former Soviet Union when it is realized.
But Ivanishvili says Georgia will only become member if it is benificial for the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia and Russia plan another round of direct talks in Prague in the middle of September.
The Georgian Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Russian Relations, Zurab Abashidze, told journalists on Tuesday that the details of the meeting are
TBILISI, DFWatch–A storm system is expected to hit western Georgia for the next two days, starting late on Wednesday.
The weather forecast predicts a storm that will spread from the Baltic Sea to the shores of the Black Sea with cold and humid air masses, and
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Central Election Commission refused to let former Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili register as a candidate for president in the upcoming election.
The reason is that under Georgian legislation a citizen of a foreign country cannot
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new Stalin monument in the east of Georgia was paint bombed the same day as the opening ceremony.
As Stalin monuments are resurrected around Georgia’s towns and villages, protesters paint them with slogans against the dictator