TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office on Monday is expected to charge the former head of Georgia’s domestic intelligence service in absentia.
Data Akhalaia was head of the Constitutional Security Department (CSD), locally known as ‘Kudi’, and former
TBILISI, DFWatch — Ten of the intelligence officers who were detained Friday have been sentenced to preliminary detention by Tbilisi City Court and were denied bail.
November 15, eleven employees of the constitutional security department (CSD) of the interior ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s defense and foreign ministers on Saturday met the U.S. Philip Gordon, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.
Gordon, whose full title is U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, visited Georgia for a second day
TBILISI, DFWatch — The U.S. diplomat Philip Gordon Friday met government and other officials in Georgia.
Gordon, whose full title is U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, met with Davit Usupashvili, Speaker of Parliament; Davit Bakradze
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