TBILISI, DFWatch — The long serving interior minister in Georgia has weighed in on the prosecution of his former deputy.
Vano Merabishvili, the powerful and feared former interior minister who last summer became prime minister, and after losing the parliamentary
TBILISI, DFWatch — Intelligence officers detained yesterday are accused of using computer viruses to record audio and video of opposition groups, and blackmailing a man to record a prepared statement on video and upload it to Youtube.
Former officials of the
TBILISI, DFWatch — Prosecutors in Georgia have detained twelve former and current mostly intelligence officers and accused them of kidnapping, unjustified interrogations, abuse of powers, intrusion on privacy and intentional damage to property.
Eleven out of the
TBILISI, DFWatch — Moscow is ready to consider allowing Georgian wine back onto the Russian market.
Andrei Denisov, First Deputy Foreign Minister, said on Wednesday that there is a willingness on both sides to study the issue.
“If we talk about specific cases, it is
TBILISI, DFWatch — A former owner of a Georgian TV station claims that he was forced to sell it by the former government.
TV Mze (which in Georgian means ‘Sun’) was launched by millionaire Vano Chkhartishvili, a member of parliament before the Rose Revolution in 2003
TBILISI, DFWatch — The delayed visit by NATO’s Military Committee will take place in the first half of 2013.
“The parties have decided that high military officials of the Alliance will visit Georgia in the first half of 2013,” the defense ministry informs, explaining
TBILISI, DFWatch — U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Philip Gordon, is visiting Georgia Friday.
Gordon will meet with government officials.
According to the U.S. embassy in Georgia, he will once again underline that the U.S. is
TBILISI, DFWatch — A TV channel controlled by the former Saakashvili’s government on Wednesday got a new director, who used to be former government official.
Rustavi 2 is considered to have played a major role during the Rose Revolution in 2003 and used to be
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s new government has now detailed what its priorities are by presenting a budget for next year of 7.34 billion lari, or USD 4.42 billion, which is USD 335 million more than this year’s budget.
According to the 2013 budget bill, the
TBILISI, DFWatch — The moving of former interior minister Bacho Akhalaia from one prison to another was done because other inmates had threatened to kill him, according to Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani.
After Akhalaia was detained for abusing powers, illegal