TBILISI, DFWatch – Democracy groups demand that the date of the parliamentary is brought forward for Georgians living abroad.
The election is scheduled for October 1, but the groups it brought forward to September 29 or 30.
The groups say in an application to the Central Election
TBILISI, DFWatch – The new U.S. ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland Wednesday officially started his work.
He arrived at Tbilisi airport with his wife, where they were greeted by Chargé d’Affaires Bridget Brink and representatives of the embassy.
Norland said he
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s basketball team is meeting Bosnia-Herzegovina again team tomorrow.
Georgia comes to its seventh qualifier for EuroBasket 2013 after winning against Romania on Sunday with the final score 91:74.
Georgia will host Bosnia-Herzegovina at
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Defense Minister and Chief of Staff met with ISAF Commander of Regional Command Southwest Major General and Commander of Task Force RC (SW) Major General to receive information about the mission.
According to Georgia’s Defense Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch – Another so-called saboteur was buried today in a Georgian village, locals say.
Seven corpses have been identified out of eleven liquidated saboteurs, according to the interior ministry. Two of them were Georgian citizens and were buried earlier in the village Duisi
Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, and Štefan Füle, EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, made today the following statement:
“We wish
TBILISI, DFWatch – The seizing of the bank accounts of an opposition figure and his partner, a former AC Milan player, has strengthened the perception of a selective and disproportionate application of the law, according to a new report by National Democratic Institute.
TBILISI, DFWatch – NATO’s Secretary General will come to Georgia on September 6 and hold official meetings for one day.
Manana Manjgaladze, Spokesperson for president told DF Watch that Anders Fogh Rasmussen arrives in Georgia as part of a tour of the Caucasus.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The interior ministry says there were two Georgian citizens among the eleven who were killed during a police operation on the Russian-Georgian border. A few days ago, the ministry claimed that there weren’t any Georgians among the dead ‘boeviks’.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili announced that in September there will be opened a City Hall and a port in the still non-existent city Lazika.
Saakashvili was meeting with youth at the patriot camp in Anaklia, a town on the Black Sea coast.