TBILISI, DFWatch — Bucharest decision that Georgia will become a member of NATO stands if Georgia fulfills necessary criteria, NATO Secretary General states.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen was speaking at a press conference after a meeting of the NATO-Russia
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Georgia starts investigating prisoner abuse
TBILISI, DFWatch — Prosecutors in Georgia are preparing to press charges in several cases of prison abuse, based on a series of leaked videos which spurred a major scandal in September.
Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili said at a press conference on Tuesday
Court detains Data Akhalaia in absentia
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former Interior Ministry official has been sentenced to pre-trial detention in absentia.
Data Akhalaia, former chair of the feared Constitutional Security Department of the Interior Ministry, is charged, together with Soso Topuridze and Geronti
Georgia gets a new Chair of the Joint Staff
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Defense Minister and President have agreed on a new candidate for Chair of the Joint Staff.
Irakli Alasania, Defense Minister on Tuesday presented Colonel Irakli Dzneladze who will be filling this post. A day before, consultations
Weapons cache discovered in Tbilisi
TBILISI, DFWatch — Military Police in Georgia have seized about a hundred weapons of different types at an apartment in Tbilisi.
Vako Avaliani, Advisor to the Defense Minister, on Monday said the weapons were not registered.
The ministry learned about the location
Seven die in road accident
TBILISI, DFWatch — Seven persons died Monday evening in a car accident in Western Georgia, according to the Interior Ministry.
In a statement the ministry writes that the accident took place at about 20:00 in the village Tseva, in the Imereti region. A truck
NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels
TBILISI, DFWatch — NATO’s Foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels December 4 and 5.
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, NATO Secretary General, will chair the meeting. Maia Panjikidze, Georgia’s Foreign Affairs Minister arrived in Brussels Monday evening
UN vote on Palestine causes controversy in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch — It has caused great controversy in Georgia that its representatives at a session of the United Nations General Assembly voted in favor of Palestine being given observer status in the world organization.
The vote comes amidst a time of criticism
Data Akhalaia charged in absentia
Data Akhalaia, former chair of the Constitutional Security Department of the Interior Ministry, Georgia’s domestic intelligence service, has been charged in absentia for abuse of powers and illegal deprivation of liberty.
Akhalaia, the brother of the detained
New details about 2004 Robakidze murder
TBILISI, DFWatch — Another Interior Ministry official has been interrogated regarding the murder of Buta Robakidze, who was killed by police in 2004.
This time Levan Gvazava, Former Deputy Interior Minister was interrogated. He was called in for questioning on