TBILISI, DFWatch – Bulgaria has sided with Georgia in a dispute over how to allow the civilian population in Georgia’s breakaway regions travel abroad.
Two regions broke away from Georgia during the breakup of the Socviet Union, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, leading
TBILISI, DFWatch – The former Soviet republic of Georgia is to become a supplier of goods the U.S. military.
Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili announced the news Tuesday during the opening of a conference on Georgian-American cooperation in Batumi.
TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of French senators on a midsummer visit Tuesday toured close to a village which was taken by Russia in the 2008 war.
The senators’s trip took them to the surrounding area close to the village Akhalgori. The village was renamed Leningor
TBILISI, DFWatch – Media in Russia and Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia report that the head of the investigation department at the de facto South Ossetian Prosecutor General’s office has been murdered.
Roland Chitayev was reported kidnapped on Monday
TBILISI, DFWatch – OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly Monday passed a resolution about Georgia, which uses the term ‘occupation’ about Russia’s military presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The resolition also calls on Russia to live up to the terms of the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Heavy rain caused flooding in several parts of Georgia Tuesday.
In Kutaisi, the second largest city, first floors and basements are under water.
In Batumi, a defective drainage channel let to rivers of water in the roads.
Local media in the
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Russian military presence in Georgia’s breakaway regions are increasingly being called an occupation.
The first to use the term was U.S. representatives. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used the term during a visit to Tbilisi in 2010.
TBILISI, DFWatch – There is still no confirmation of an alleged raid of a prison in Tbilisi Friday night. In the meantime, one more prisoner has been confirmed dead.
The Prison Ministry confirmed a second death at Geguti prison. Again, the cause of death was heart
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Vice Speaker of Parliament was today elected as one of the vice presidents of OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly.
OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly are gathered in Monaco to elect a president and vice presidents. Riccardo Migliori,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Two ministers who where switched around in a government reshuffle are taking their staff with them.
Former education minister Dimitry Shashkin is the new defense minister, and officials from the education ministry are now following after him.