TBILISI, DFWatch–The court hearing for the two clerics who participated in the violent clashes on May 17 has been postponed until July 23.
The hearing was to have been on Monday, and apart from the two clerics the case also concerns several other persons who are
TBILISI, DFWatch–45 percent of people like Giorgi Margvelashvili, the Georgian Dream coalition’s candidate for president, while 48 percent like Davit Bakradze, who most likely will be the National Movement’s candidate.
When asked who they would want as president,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Davit Bakradze, parliamentary leader of the National Movement, defended his frontrunner status Sunday with a third primary election win.
566 UNM delegates met in Telavi, a town in the eastern Kakheti region, to listen to a debate between Davit
TBILISI, DFWatch–Rusudan Kervalishvili, a former lawmaker for the National Movement party, and her sister Maya Rcheulishvili, who are accused of running a ponzi scheme through a construction company they founded, have been released on USD 150 000 bail each.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The governor of the Samegrelo Zemo Svaneti region was Friday sentenced to four years in jail.
Governor Tengiz Gunava was charged in several different cases and was accused of exceeding his powers while he was head of the regional police department
TBILISI, DFWatch–Saakashvili accuses the government of worsening relations with the EU and claims that the signing of an association agreement with the EU has been removed from the schedule of the Vilnius summit.
Tamar Beruchashvili, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Muslims in an eastern Georgian village are still not able to live their lives normally, as Friday prayer was disrupted again in Samtatskharo.
Neither local Muslims or Muslims from the other regions came to pray yesterday.
Parmen Tsetskhladze,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new survey shows that the number of Georgians who consider Russia a threat has increased by nine percentage points since March.
The survey was organized by National Democratic Institute (NDI) and shows that 37 percent think Russia is a threat,
TBILISI, DFWatch–EU Commissioner Štefan Füle is hopeful about Georgia’s chances of signing an association agreement with the EU at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November.
Füle is visiting Georgia and today met with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prosecutors in Georgia have seized the house of a member of the parliamentary opposition on the grounds of an appeal by the businessman Joseph Kay.
Sergo Ratiani, a member of the Untied National Movement, on Thursday went public with what had happened