Ex PM Giorgi Gakharia offers open trilateral talks to theRuling party-Georgian Dream and United National Movement (UNM)-the biggest opposition party, with the aim to recruit members for city councils ‘in a balanced manner.’ Gakharia underlined on...
Patriarchate’s secretary Mikael Botkoveli visited Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili in Rustavi No.12 prison earlier today and requested on behalf of Patriarch Ilia II to suspend the hunger strike. Saakashvili went on hunger strike on Oct...
MEP Marina Kaljurand says that Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is serving his prison term after an arrest in Tbilisi on October 1, is likely to have lost his power. During an online dialogue organised by the Georgian Institute of ...
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP Levan Karumidze has commented Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s new relationship with an Ukrainian MP and Saakashvili’s ‘wife’ Sandra Roelofs’ reactions to the ‘new family’ and stated that ‘from the point o...
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 ...