Human Rights Watch says in its recent report that setbacks in several areas of human rights occurred during 2021 in Georgia ‘against the backdrop of a dramatic political standoff between the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) and opposition parties that domi...
The Georgian president has signed a bill initiated by the ruling Georgian Dream party MPs which envisages the abolishment of the State Inspector’s Service as it is now and instead offers the creation of two agencies – one which will look into alleged...
Georgia has reported 5,326 new Covid-19 cases of 55,474 tests, 3,044 recoveries, and 48 deaths in the past 24 hours. 42,439 remain infected with coronavirus in Georgia as of now. Georgia has recorded 979,235 cases of coronavirus since February 26,...
Georgia’s imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili is attending a trial hearing in his own case in Tbilisi City Court where he had a dispute with a judge. The hearing is being held in the case of illegally crossing the border from Ukraine to...
One individual has been arrested in Georgia’s eastern Bolnisi region for the possession of one kilo and 500gr heroin. The drug has been seized by the employees of the country’s Interior Ministry. The crime is punishable by up to 20 years in...
Russian troops leaving Kazakhstan after a week of violent protests caused by hike in fuel prices. They were invited by the Kazakh government as it was unable to cope with demonstrators alone. Russia sent a peacekeeping mission from the Collective ...
Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Antigua and Barbuda, Congo, Guinea, Papua New Guinea, and Vanuatu have lost their voting rights in the UN due to unpaid dues, UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. In total, 11 foreign states are behind in...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that he has chaired ‘not an easy’ discussion of the NATO-Russia council amid current tension at the Ukrainian border and Russia’s demands to the alliance not to add new members, including Ukraine and Georg...
The ruling Georgian Dream MP Anri Okhanashvili says that both the leaders of the United National Movement and Lelo opposition parties have been involved in ‘legal and political fraud.’ Tbilisi City Court has found Lelo leaders, founders of TBC Bank...
Leader of the Labour Party Shalva Natelashvili may enter parliament. He says he is scheduled to make the decision in early February. Like several other opposition parties, Natelashvili has been demanding repeat parliamentary elections since 2020 ...
