EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell has responded to yesterday’s vote in the Georgian state legislature which terminated MP status for three opposition legislators. Hartzell refused to discuss the basis of the decision, but said that the proce...
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has responded to Ukraine’s National Day of Unity and tweeted that the date is particularly significant in face of current ‘difficult challenges.’ She said that the day is important for Georgia, for the coun...
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani has once again expressed support for ‘brotherly’ Ukraine and condemned Russia’s possible recognition of occupied Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. “We once again express our solidarity and stro...
The Georgian parliament has suspended an MP status for three opposition members – Badri Japaridze from Lelo, Elene Khoshtaria from Droa and Shalva Natelashvili from the Labour Party. The reason for the decision in case of Japaridze was his recen...
The opposition United National Movement has demanded the restoration of party lists which were abolished following the 2020 parliamentary elections, per the request of the opposition. The opposition applied for the abolishment of the lists after...
Former PM Giorgi Gakharia’s For Georgia party member Giga Parulava has been elected a new head of Zugdidi city assembly in western Georgia. The city assembly is one of seven across the country where the ruling Georgian Dream party was unable to ...
Socially vulnerable individuals will retain their state social assistance for four years if they get involved in the government-initiated public employment programme, Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili has stated. The aim of the programme, as i...
Head of the ruling Georgian Dream party Irakli Kobakhidze has stated that only several foreign states have adopted a resolution in support of Ukraine amid fears of an attack by Russia, and that Georgia was among them. He said that the resolution, w...
Georgian Dream MP Guram Macharashvili says that former president Mikheil Saakashvili and his lawyers are spreading ‘fake news’ when they say that the Ukrainian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has granted a victim status to the third president who currently...
MEP Viola von Cramon says that it is heartbreaking to see Georgia continue backsliding on democracy, responding to Georgia’s deteriorated score in the recent democracy index. “Moldova and even Ukraine and Armenia are doing better. Georgia once u...
