TBILISI, DFWatch – A bust of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski was opened Tuesday here in Tbilisi.
The square where it is located is near the street named after him by Tbilisi City Council to honor him after his tragic death two years ago.
Zaal Samadashvili,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Monday defended a new network of voluntary reservists which the main opposition bloc has warned are paramilitaries meant for starting a civil war.
Saakashvili, speaking at an event to mark 23 years since
TBILISI, DFWatch – Tbilisi City Court has sentenced a Russian businessman to pay a fine of about USD 1 200 because he had visited Abkhazia before coming to Georgia.
The court found that the businessman had violated a law which bans travel across the borders
TBILISI, DFWatch – About 30 000 Russians have entered Georgia since visa restrictions were lifted February 28.
This is seventy per cent higher than the same period last year.
Before President Mikheil Saakashvili the liberalized visa rules for Russians, there was visa
TBILISI, DFWatch – They came holding candles to commemorate the twenty people who died here twenty three years ago. But police cleared them away to make room for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s April 9 event.
Just before Saakashvili was to hold his speech, police
TBILISI, DFWatch – Speaking on April 9, officially known as The Day of National Unity, President Mikheil Saakashvili warned against his country’s enemy within.
Addressing soldiers in the yard of the parliament building on the important public holiday dedicated to unity,
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili announced the test flight in a speech April 9.
The date is symbolically significant as a peaceful demonstration for independence was attacked by Soviet troops here in Tbilisi in 1989.
Saakashvili made reference to
TBILISI, DFWatch – April 9 is 21 year anniversary for the restoration of Georgia’s independence and 23 years since the Soviet Union used soldiers to disperse a peaceful protest in Tbilisi.
Georgian society, government and opposition remembered this day on Rustaveli
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia’s chief sanitary inspector is concerned about the deployment of U.S. military laboratories at former Soviet medical institutions in Ukraine and Georgia.
According to NEWSru, a Russian news website owned by Gazprom, Gennady Onishchenko
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili’s main competitor will be allowed to participate in the parliamentary elections in October, after the government agreed to amend the constitution.
Following the amendment, EU citizens can run in elections in Georgia.