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...
Police have detained a 81-year-old man in the country’s eastern Tianeti region for stabbing his 59-year-old son during a dispute. The elderly man has already been arrested by police and charged with premeditated murder. A knife has been sei...
The Russian-controlled occupation forces, who detained three Georgian citizens illegally on October 4 near de facto Tskhinvali, have released two of them late yesterday, the Georgian State Security Service has confirmed. The remaining one indivi...
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...
Tbilisoba, an annual October festival in the Georgian capital city, which celebrates the diversity and history of Tbilisi, will take place on October 24 and half a million GEL will be spent on it. However, large sport and cultural events will not t...
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 ...
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen says that the Georgian government will not be able to ignore observers’ allegations on alleged intimidation, vote-buying and pressure on voters during the October 2 municipal elections. She has told Voice of America that t...
