The US former ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly says that both Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who returned to Georgia at the end of september after eight years in political exile, and the country’s current PM Irakli Garibashvili ‘are a poi...
The European Commission is re-examining the EU’s role in the Arctic ahead of an integrated EU policy by the end of 2021 and the European Parliament is expected to debate its report on the issue this week. “A shift in the perception of the Arctic ...
Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1 ahead of municipal elections, says he is ready to test for drugs amid allegations of the country’s prime minister that he is a drug addict. Georgian PM Irakli Ga...
Georgian Parliament Speaker Kakha Kuchava says that many people wish to see the country’s arrested ex-president in Rustavi No.12 prison, while a balance should be kept. “It is impossible to allow 10-15 individuals on a daily basis to see Saakash...
The European People’s Party (EPP) says that the October 2 municipal elections in Georgia ‘have raised our concerns over the state of democracy and freedom in the country.’ “The reports of international observers underlined reduced democratic sta...
MEP Rasa Jukneviciene states that recent words by Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili, that more charges may be added to ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili who was arrested in Tbilisi last week, ‘is a blunt recognition that the case against Saakashvili is ...
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen says that the Georgian government will not be able to ignore observers’ allegations on alleged intimidation, vote-buying and pressure on voters during the October 2 municipal elections. She has told Voice of America that t...
Sandra Roelofs, wife of Georgia’s currently arrested former president Mikheil Saakashvili, says that ‘Misha is a political prisoner,’ however states in her Facebook post that Saakashvili’s recent announcement on a new family with Ukrainian MP Liza Ya...
Third president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili,who was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1 ahead of municipal elections, has called on Kutaisi residents in western Georgia to vote for the United National Movement (UNM) opposition candidate Khatia Dekano...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili claims that neither drug addiction ‘which makes people take unreasonable steps’, nor a wish to go to prison pushed Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili to return to Georgia ahead of the October 2 muni...
