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.
Levan Vepkhvadze is Vice Speaker of Parliament, representing the Christian Democrats. (Photo: Interpressnews.)
It’s already the fourth year that I am a member of parliament, and for the fourth time I have to listen to the Georgian president in the Georgian parliament; listen to his promises and views, in what in the constitution is called “report about the country’s
Arnold Stepanian is chairman of the movement Multinational Georgia. (Photo: Interpressnews.)
Part 1: Russia and Georgia
One cannot Play at Giveaway
Since the Rose Revolution and the assumption of political power by Mikhail Saakashvili the scope of influence of the Russian Federation over Georgia has been weakened to that extent that the Russian Federation has
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