"Where there are economic relations, there is no place for tanks,” Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili says, and lifts visa rules for all Russians. Today, citizens of Russia's seven northern Caucasus republics can enter Georgia without a visa. (Photo: Interpressnews.)
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said Tuesday night that Georgia will lift visa requirements for all Russians.
Saakashvili was holding his annual speech to parliament about the state of the nation.
TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition politician in the former Soviet republic of Georgia accuses the government of lying about when three servicemen died last week.
Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s former Foreign Minister, accuses the government of having postponed the sad
TBILISI, DFWatch – The European Union’s commissioner for trade issues, Karel de Gucht, will arrive in Georgia today on February 28 and will start negotiations with Georgia about a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement.
TBILISI, DFWatch – When Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili comes to parliament this evening to make his speech about the state of the nation, groups and opposition parties will be demonstrating outside.
The press office of the Free Georgia Party announced the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s billionaire-backed opposition movement, Georgian Dream, is not going to reconsider the country’s participation in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan.
Press spokesperson Maya Pandzhikidze said this at a regular briefing on February 27.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Black Sea port of Batumi has been chosen as host for the OSCE Economic Forum in May, Georgia’s Vice Speaker of Parliament Gigi Tsereteli told journalists Monday.
Tsereteli says the decision was taken a few days ago after a meeting of
Natia Mogeladze, head of the financial monitoring group of the Chamber of Control, today announced that a political donation was an instance of illegal funnelling through an individual, because the person has a too low income to explain such a big donation. (Photo: Maestro TV.)
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian authorities have issued fines to an opposition figurehead and his associates totaling 363 000 US dollars.
The businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, who since October 2011 has been gradually building a base within the country’s politics, was