TBILISI, DFWatch – An organization in Georgia has revealed video footage showing the working conditions of Georgians in Turkey.
Merab Ghoghoberidze, head of Information Center for Georgia’s Fight against Corruption in Batumi, told Interpressnews that Georgians contacted
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili’s administration is accused of bribing voters, after several closed meetings with the population in different cities in Georgia, Maestro TV reports.
The meetings were held to introduce the ruling National
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says it causes confusion and apprehension for his country that Georgia continues to be a candidate for NATO membership.
Lavrov said this after a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council Thursday.
“Now, NATO
TBILISI, DFWatch – Property close to the occupied territories of Georgia are to be exempted from property tax.
The government proposes to amend the tax code so that land which is owned by a person or property lands that are located near the occupied territories,
TBILISI, DFWatch – How can Armenia and Georgia create more growth – literally – in their border region? Agriculture was the topic of a conference Thursday at Courtyard Marriott Hotel in Tbilisi.
The goal was to exchange information on local planning and
TBILISI, DFWatch – Family violence may become a crime in Georgia.
Systematic physical, psychological violence or force by one family member against another, which causes physical, psychological or moral pain or suffering for the victim, will be punished by a fine or
TBILISI, DFWatch – South Ossetia Thursday inaugurated its newly elected de facto president, former local KGB head Leonid Tibilov.
The second round of president elections in the Georgian breakaway region was held on April 8. Tibilov competed against David Sanakoyev,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The pressure group Georgian Young Lawyer’s Association says supporters of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition are regularly subject to pressure in the eastern Kakheti region of Georgia.
Spokesperson for GYLA’s Kakheti office told Interpressnews
TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany is satisfied with how the negotiations between Georgia and the EU are going, to work out an association agreement.
Cornelia Pieper, Germany’s Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, said this after a meeting with her Georgian colleague.
Pieper
TBILISI, DFWatch – A new U.S. financed biological laboratory opened in March 2011 near Tbilisi. It will have American military researchers working there. Is it a problem?
According to the website of the Central Public Health Reference Laboratory, it “will belong to an international