TBILISI, DFWatch — The supervisory board of Georgia’s Public Broadcaster Wednesday elected a new director as replacement for Giorgi Chanturia, who unexpectedly resigned almost two weeks ago.
The board chose Giorgi Baratashvili, who has a background from different
TBILISI, DFWatch — The largest Georgian union of civil society organizations December 24 met to discuss the role of civil society, and their activities and future plans.
The National Platform, as the union is called, has been joined by 106 civil society organizations.
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili Tuesday met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during an official visit to Baku.
The two held a closed meeting which took place at Aliyev’s Zagulba palace.
Also present were Georgia’s Foreign
TBILISI, DFWatch — An earthquake hit Georgia Wednesday morning; the second one in three days.
Two strong quakes were felt early morning December 26, at 02:44 and 03:00 am.
According to the seismic monitoring center, the strength of the earthquakes were 5.5 and
TBILISI, DFWatch — Just as the Inter RAO corruption scandal is jolting the political scene in Georgia, a Georgian think tank claims to have revealed three further cases of what is called high level corruption.
The Saakashvili government has been credited with having effectively
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has concluded an investigation of a handful of videos showing torture of prisoners which sparked protests two weeks before the election in October, 2012.
The videos were published September 19, and showed
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Secretary of the Security Council and the Prime Minister disagree about the expenses and financing for the National Security Council of Georgia.
The issue surfaced when the 2013 budget was presented to parliament, showing that the
TBILISI, DFWatch — The twelve Georgian sailors who have been adrift on a ship abandoned by its owner off the coast of Panama are returning home.
The sailors aboard the Maria del Carmen 2, sailing under a Nigerian flag, were rescued by staff at the Georgian embassy
TBILISI, DFWatch — A military search team left for Afghanistan on Monday in order to search for a Georgian soldier who has been missing for almost a week.
The team is headed by the deputy chief of the Joint Staff.
ISAF isalready conducting a search and rescue
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Georgia’s new government’s declared foreign policy priorities haven’t changed and country will have good relations with its neighbors, but will never return to the Russian-dominated CIS, said prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili of Monday’s