TBILISI, DFWatch–The Ministry of Internal Affairs has agreed with the Prosecutor’s Office to immediately destroy a ‘dirty archive’ of compromising material created during President Saakashvili’s various governments.
Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said
TBILISI, DFWatch–The deputy interior minister has been detained for posting a sex video on the Internet allegedly involving a journalist who had criticized him.
Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili Sunday evening held a press conference to talk about the investigation into
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishivli calls on President Mikheil Saakashvili to set a date for the presidential election.
Representatives of the president’s administration told DF Watch that the president’s opinion about this issue is still unknown.
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili left a restaurant in Tbilisi before there broke out a scuffle between several well-known politicians.
Three members of President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM), including two parliamentarians,
TBILISI, DFWatch–21 percent more foreigners visited Georgia in April 2013 than in the same month the year before. In the first five months of the year as a whole, 32 percent more foreigners visited the country, compared to the preceding year.
These figures
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Dream coalition has chosen Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili as its candidate for president in the upcoming election.
“Giorgi Margvelashvili has all good skills to be a president,” Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said at
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia has decided to change the ownership of the Richard G Lugar Public Health Research Center in Tbilisi.
The liquidation process is to take three months and the center’s property will be handed over to the National Center
TBILISI, DFWatch–May 9, “EU Day” was observed in its member countries. Also in Georgia, which is not a member, the day was celebrated with cultural events.
A concert was held in Tbilisi by the initiative of the mayor. Diplomats and national minorities, as
TBILISI, DFWatch–Members of the two main political blocs in Georgia are discussing who might be their candidate for the presidential election in October, 2013. Both plan to hold a ballot to select their candidate.
In a recent survey conducted by the National
TBILISI, DFWatch–Eleven more Georgia citizens have been released from their detention by Russian soldiers. They were detained earlier in May for crossing the border with South Ossetia.
The release on Wednesday came after the Ministry of Interior had held