TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili says there should be declared an emergency situation in the Georgian police.
He said it while visiting a family which a few days ago was attacked by burglars.
December 29, the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained
TBILISI, DFWatch — An attempt at demonstrating against Georgian NATO membership was Sunday quashed by a counter-demonstration.
The two rallies took place on Pushkin Square in the center of Tbilisi and started with a call the same day to support friendship with Russia,
TBILISI, DFWatch — A Georgian soldier who has been missing for ten days was found dead in Afghanistan December 29.
Sergeant Giorgi Kikadze is the nineteenth Georgian soldier to lose his life while carrying out his duties as part of the NATO-led ISAF mission
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has questioned the wife of the former interior minister regarding a case of beating of policemen.
This is a case in which former officials in the Interior Ministry have been charged.
Tako Salakaia, wife of
TBILISI, DFWatch — The new government has decided to cancel tuition fees for many popular studies.
Bachelor students in 14 fields of specialization at state universities will have their tuition fees cut to zero from 2013.
The free subjects will be agronomy, education sciences, energy
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has officially charged a former Justice Minister in absentia for abuse of power and being responsible for torturing prisoners.
Zurab Adeishvili, the former Justice Minister in Saakashvili’s government who
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Ministry of Refugees and Internally Displaced People has discovered five unregistered warehouses, where there were kept humanitarian aid which should have been distributed to refugees in 2008 and 2009.
The ministry on Friday published photos
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian parliament overrode President Mikheil Saakashvili’s veto against a law about mass amnesty.
91 MPs voted against Saakashvili’s new version of the law, while 4 supported it. Now, the Georgian Dream coalition’s law, which was passed
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Dream coalition says parliament will return to Tbilisi by the end of the spring session.
After the parliamentary election in October, 2012, the eighth parliamentary assembly has been holding sessions in a new building in Kutaisi,
TBILISI, DFWatch — The governing Georgian Dream coalition suggests bringing forward a planned reform to give the president power to immediately dissolve parliament and announce a new parliamentary election.
The powers are part of a package of constitutional