TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishivli says that he and Chairman of the Supreme Court have not discussed the issue of impeaching the latter.
“We only spoke about how we should develop and go forward,” Ivanishivli says.
Kote Kublashvili has
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia today passed a law which allows filming and taking photographs inside courtrooms.
Also at today’s plenary session, parliamentarians decided to cancel fees for kindergartens and to separate the garbage fee from the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Russian consumer safety bureau Rospotrebnadzor confirms that 36 Georgian wine companies and four mineral water companies are ready to enter the Russian market.
On Wednesday, the agency, which is a federal service for protection consumers’ rights
TBILISI, DFwatch–A former defense minister returned to Georgia Wednesday morning, accompanied by his family, to answer questions from investigators if it becomes necessary. So far, there are no charges against him.
(Updated with comments from the Prosecutor’s Office
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Saakashvili offers Prime Minister Ivanishvili to sign a common statement to NATO and the EU confirming their allegiance to a European and Euro-Atlantic political course.
A spokesperson for the prime minister told DF Watch that Ivanishvili has
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is still Georgia’s richest person, but his fortune has shrunk by USD 1.1 billion to USD 5.3 billion, according to a new rating by Forbes Magazine.
On Forbes’s new list of the world’s richest people in 2013, Bidzina
TBILISI, DFWatch–The supervisory board of Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) has dismissed the company’s chairman because he fired the news chief, allegedly for political reasons.
After the change of government in Georgia, TV channels have gone through a period of
TBILISI, DFWatch–The level of inflation did not significantly change in February, 2013, compared to the preceding month.
According to Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, the national currency is up by 0.3 percent.
Price changes in the following
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former high official in the Georgian prison system admits guilt in a case of mistreatment and torture of prisoners, but says he was a victim of the Saakashvili regime.Gaga Mkurnalidze, former deputy chairman of the Prison Department, is one of 17
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili claims that billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili came to power in 2012 thanks to a group of Georgian exiles in Russia who provided funding and support.
As he returned from a trip to Azerbaijan last week, Saakashvili