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
TBILISI, DFWatch – Another suspect in the attack on de facto Abkhazian president is reported to have committed suicide.
Ria Novosti reports that Temur Khutaba hanged himself. He was one of the men suspected in the failed assassination attempt on Alexander Ankvab on
TBILISI, DFWatch – A former Interior minister suspected of participating in the attack on the de facto president of Abkhazia on February 22, committed suicide on Tuesday.
Abkhazian news agency Apsnypress reports that operational units of the co-called Interior Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch – The tunnel carrying the only road connecting Russia and Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia will be partly closed for the next three years, starting April 24, Russian media reports.
The Roki tunnel runs through the greater Caucasus mountain range
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Railways is set to be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), becoming the second Georgian companies to achieve a listing, after Bank of Georgia.
Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said April 12 that the government was planning to place several
TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany’s Minister of State under Foreign Minister Cornelia Pieper visits Georgia.
Announcing the visit Tuesday, Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said that Pieper will arrive today on April 17 and have meetings here April 18 and 19.
TBILISI, DFWatch – That Hillary Clinton is coming to Georgia is now certain, as the two countries have completed agreeing on formalities around the visit.
But the exact date for the U.S. Secretary of State’s trip still has to be decided, says Nino Kalandadze, Deputy
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has no detailed information about the three Turkish citizens who were arrested for smuggling radioactive material to Turkey.
The three had driven by car from Russia, transiting through Georgia, and were arrested on April 11, carrying
TBILISI, DFWatch – The fifth meeting of the working group on democracy within the U.S.-Georgia Strategic Partnership Charter was held on April 16 in Washington.
The Georgian Foreign Affairs Ministry informs that parties discussed ongoing and already implemented
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia considers Georgia’s decision to terminate its obligations under the Open Skies treaty with respect to Russia a flagrant violation of the treaty.
“The Treaty does not provide any discriminatory restrictions on the rights of any state party.