TBILISI, DFWatch – Another central figure in Georgia’s Interior Ministry resigns, after recent changes in the government.
Shota Utiashvili, former head of the Ministry’s Department for Analysis, today announced his decision to leave.
He did not say who will be his
TBILISI, DFWatch – Prisoners in Georgia are getting support from democracy campaigners who protested outside one of the most infamous prisons.
Non-governmental organizations protested against prisoner abuse in No. 15 detention facility in Ksani at the hands of
TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany’s Christian Democrat party calls for democratic elections in Georgia in October.
In a press release entitled Ensure Fair Elections in Georgia, the CDU’s faction in the Bundestag calls for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to take
TBILISI, DFWatch – One of China’s largest companies, Hualing Group, has bought a 90 percent share in Georgia’s Basis Bank.
Xinjiang Hualing Industry & Trade (Group) Co. Ltd., Basis Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development today held a joint press
TBILISI, DFWatch – The government plans to spend four billion lari to develop agriculture, six billion on pensions, three billion on health insurance, three billion on social assistance and four billion on education.
Changes have been made in the government, with
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s former defense minister has been appointed new interior minister. The former education minister will take his place, and the former rector of Police Academy will be new education minister.
Bachana (“Bacho”) Akhalaia will take the position
President Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday appointed interior minister Vano Merabishvili as prime minister. DF Watch spoke to Petre Tsiskarishvili about the surprise announcement.
Tsiskarishvili is parliamentary leader of the majority National Movement party. He says that
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili has already started making promises, as only three months are left until the parliamentary elections.
In a speech Monday in the Gldani district of Tbilisi, near a construction site of a vocational
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s appointment of a former interior minister as prime minister may have been in violation of the constitution, and therefore invalid.
One of Georgia’s most experienced constitutional experts, Vakhtang Khmaladze, says
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili today presented his employment minister, which is a new post.
“I have initiative to set up specific Employment Ministry, which will take care to solve problems of employment. A database of unemployed