July in Telavi court in eastern Georgia has found former deputy head of Telavi criminal police Vano Zandarashvili guilty of premediated murder of Telavi central hospital director, 38-year-old Zurab Sachishvili. The incident took place in Decembe...
The US embassy to Georgia has condemned the ‘violent, seemingly politically motivated attacks’ on opposition activists in Dmanisi and Rustavi in recent days, ahead of the October 2 municipal elections. “This, along with numerous reports of press...
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze has ‘strongly condemned’ the recent replacement of banners encouraging coronavirus vaccination in Georgia with the anti-opposition banners containing hate-speech. Tikaradze says that vaccination is am...
Georgian opposition parties say that the recent decision of theTurkish company ENKA not to build Namakhvani HPP [../../../../en/news/details/12218] in Georgia will have a negative impact on the country’s investment image and may also result in an add...
Turkish company ENKA has stated that they will not build a Namakhvani HPP in western Georgia due to the ‘violation of contract conditions’ by the Georgian side. The forthcoming construction of the HPP in Rioni gorge has caused large scale protests ...
Georgia has retained the status of ‘free’ in the Freedom House’s Freedom on the Net 2021 index with 77 scores out of a total 100. Georgia has improved its score by one point compared to last year. “Internet freedom improved in Georgia, due to no r...
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) MP Irakli Zarkua says that the Georgian government took the 100 million USD loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) because it was the position of the 2019 loan from the bank. Taking the loan comes shortly afte...
Georgian Ambassador to EU Vakhtang Makharoblishvili has been summoned to the EU office in Brussels over recently leaked files [../../../en/news/details/11728] in Georgia on clerics and politicians, the EU Ambassador to Georgia Carl Hartzell says. ...
Georgia has reported 2,016 new cases of coronavirus of 29,798 tests, 2,024 recoveries and 43 deaths in the last 24 hours. 23,925 people remain infected with Covid-19 in the country as of today. 567,797 of the 600,412 patients have recovered ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has launched procedures for the lawsuit submitted by the Georgian Young Lawyers’s Association (GYLA) and EHRAC on June 2019 protests in Tbilisi, GYLA says. June protests in Tbilisi back in 2019 were spar...
