Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze stated that senior Ukrainian officials had directly called on Georgia to open a “second front” during the war. Remarks from a former Polish president further support this claim, he said. “What Ukraine’s leadership wa...
Incumbent Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze, who is also the ruling Georgian Dream party’s candidate for re-election, has unveiled a programme of “large-scale infrastructure projects” planned for the capital over the next four years. Presenting the detail...
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has described an anti-Government protest held outside the ruling Georgian Dream party’s headquarters on Wednesday as a “gathering of the United National Movement [opposition] orcs,” accusing the oppositi...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has defended the appointment of Levan Kharabadze as deputy head of the State Security Service, calling him an “honourable man who had served the country with dignity,” following media reports highlighting his...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday called the participants of an anti-Government rally in central Tbilisi on the previous day “orcs” of the United National Movement opposition party. Speaking to journalists, Kobakhidze said protes...
Eka Beselia, founder of the civic group House of Justice, has criticised the sentencing of 11 individuals arrested during pro-European protests late last year, calling the recent court ruling “unjust and illegal” and promising to appeal. Speaking to...
The head of Georgia’s State Security Service, Mamuka Mdinaradze, has appointed several new deputies. Lasha Maghradze, formerly first deputy justice minister, has been named first deputy head of the agency on Thursday. Other appointments include Ale...
Giorgi Baramidze, one of the leaders of the opposition United National Movement (UNM), on Wednesday called on the Georgian public to gather in the streets of major cities on October 4 instead of going to polling stations, which he described as “speci...
The ruling Georgian Dream’s Tbilisi mayoral candidate and current Mayor, Kakha Kaladze, on Wednesday officially opened his election headquarters alongside Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili. In his remarks, Ka...
Georgia’s fifth President, Salome Zourabichvili, on Wednesday welcomed the court’s decision to acquit protester Nika Katsia, calling it “one brick laid toward justice,” but warned that the judiciary remains under political control. “I want to congra...
