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...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday reiterated that Ukraine would never give up its territories to Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that if Moscow tried to advance further, it would cost Russia millions of soldiers. Speakin...
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...
Georgian journalist Nika Katsia, who was acquitted and released from prison on Wednesday, said his nine-month detention was the result of an unfair judicial system, stressing he had been innocent from the start. “Why did I sit in prison for nine mon...
Zaza Tavadze, a member of the For Georgia opposition party led by former prime minister Giorgi Gakharia, has accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of using a parliamentary investigative commission to pursue political vendettas. Tavadze on Wednesda...
Georgia’s ruling party, Georgian Dream, has elected Irakli Kirtskhalia as the new leader of the parliamentary majority and chairman of its faction as Mamuka Mdinaradze has been approved as the new head of the State Security Service. The announcemen...
A Tbilisi court has sentenced 11 people to two years in prison in connection with pro-European protests, after reducing the severity of the charges against them. Judge Nino Galustashvili reclassified the case from group violence under Article 225 of...
Georgia’s Ombudsperson has raised concerns over police treatment of citizens detained during protests on Rustaveli Avenue on Tuesday, highlighting excessive use of force and rough handling of participants. “The force used during police operations mu...
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) is facing a “historic challenge” in addressing the consequences of occupation while pursuing broad anti-corruption and security reforms, the agency’s newly approved head, Mamuka Mdinaradze, said on Wednesday aft...
Mamuka Mdinaradze, newly appointed head of Georgia’s State Security Service, has said his personal challenge was to ensure that the country’s intelligence agencies were as strong as the ambitions of the Georgian state. Mdinaradze was confirmed by th...
