TBILISI, DFWatch – The breakaway republic Abkhazia Sunday completed its 2012 parliamentary election by holding a second round of voting.
There was voting in 20 districts this time. The region has a first past the post system, and these districts out of a total of 35 needed
TBILISI, DFWatch – For the second time in a month, there has been a death during police questioning in Georgia.
The Interior Ministry does not say when it happened, only that took place at Gori police station.
Tamaz Jghamadze was asked to come to the police in Gori to
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia Sunday held presidential elections. By 10 in the morning, 11% of voters had visited election precincts; a high turnout, according to the Central Election Committee of the region.
Interfax reports that Tskhinvali
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Patriarch, Ilia II, told foreign diplomats that their assistance is needed for the difficult election period his country is heading into.
Ilia, who has great influence among the population, appealed to the diplomats during a ceremony Friday
TBILISI, DFWatch – Abkhazia today holds the second round of the elections for parliament.
20 constituencies are selecting a candidate in a first past the post system. In the first round, March 10, 13 candidates were chosen, out of a total of 35.
In one district, less
TBILISI, DFWatch – Today it is twenty years since Georgia and the U.S. established diplomatic relations.
Marking the occasion, the U.S. Embassy writes in a press release that since 1992, hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers have come to Georgia and over five thousand
TBILISI, DFWatch – The first forum organized by the EU’s Eastern Partnership is being held in Tbilisi’s Radisson Hotel.
It is jointly hosted by the office of State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and the Institute for Eastern Studies, Poland.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The visa rules between Georgia and Lebanon will be simplified, the two countries’ prime minister have decided.
Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri yesterday left for a two day visit to Lebanon. There, he met the President, the Speaker of Parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch – The confirmation hearing for the next U.S. Ambassador to Georgia has made waves in the country of his assignment.
One senator asked Richard B. Norland to supervise the democratic processes in the country.
In Georgia, the hearing has been interpreted
TBILISI, DFWatch – The World Bank has granted Georgia two new loans.
The loans total 130 million US dollars and will go to finance infrastructural development and rehabilitation of the roads in the eastern Kakheti region.
70 million US dollars was approved by the World Bank