The Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) prepared a special survey about standards for relation with mass media in Georgia. The analysis was worked out on the basis of the information from different administrative bodies. The authors of the survey claim that administrative bodies have...
Minister of Justice of Georgia Tea Tsulukiani spoke about the recent arrests of former officials in Georgia since the change of government in the interview with a French TV France 24. She touched several high-profile criminal cases, one of which was the murder of Sandro Girgvliani and did not rule out...
North Korea has defied its critics and launched its second long-range rocket this year. An official communique claimed the operation to put a satellite into orbit had been successful. The international community believes the launch was a disguised ballistic missile test. Japan confirmed the rocket...
President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko invites Georgia to rejoin the Commonwealth of Independent States. The Belarusian head of state made the relevant statement at the meeting with members of the Club of editors-in-chief of the CIS states, Baltic States, and Georgia on 11 December, BelTA has learned. "Belarus...
Zurab Abashidze, Special Representative of Georgia's Prime Minister for Russian Issues will hold a meeting with Gregoriy Karasin, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister sometime this week. The meeting will take place on a neutral territory presumably in Switzerland. Maia Panjikidze, Georgia's Foreign...
Investigation Department of the Ministry of Finance plans to interrogate MP Davit Sakvarelidze regarding the scandalous case of privatization of the Rike Park in Tbilisi, however, the member of the United National Movement says he does not intend to visit the department, though he is prepared to answer...
Police have arrested bank robber. Young man, whose name has not been reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was nabbed a day after the robbery. Police said in the statement released today that the armed suspect intruded into PrivatBank office together with his accomplice in Rustavi city and...
Georgian Party accuses the chairperson of the parliamentary committee for human rights, MP Eka Beselia of taking unilateral decisions. The members of the party founded by Irakli Okruashvili, who are serving their sentences at Georgia`s different prisons, say the fact that their names along with the name...
MP Davit Sakvarelidze, who was the deputy chief prosecutor of Georgia, has been summoned to the financial investigation department of the ministry of finance for interrogation. Reportedly, the case, about which the current MP of the parliamentary minority will have to answer questions, refers to the...
Another court hearing into case of Irakli Okruashvili, Georgia's ex-Defense Minister will resume at Tbilisi City Court today. The Prosecutor accuses Okruashvili of negligence towards his duties during the period of his being Defense Minister in 2006. According to investigation, Okruashvili bought...
Zurab Abashidze, Special Representative of Georgia's Prime Minister for Russian Issues will hold a meeting with Gregoriy Karasin, Deputy Russian Foreign Minister. The meeting will take place on a neutral territory presumably in Switzerland. Maia Panjikidze, Georgia's Foreign Minister said...
Court hearing will be held at Tbilisi City Court today regarding the case of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of Georgia's First president Zviad Gamsakhurdia. Tsotne Gamsakhurdia is charged for premeditated injury of body under Article 117 of Criminal Code of Georgia. Gamsakhurdia does not plead guilty....
Dodo Aprasidze, a mother of brother Aprasidzes was questioned in the status of a witness by Georgia's Chief Prosecutor's Office. Malkhaz Jangirashvili, lawyer of Aprasidzes said that the questioning lasted for more than 6 hours and that an investigation would be conducted repeatedly into the...
A complaint filed at the office of the chief prosecutor`s office by the former chairperson of the National Regulatory Commission of Communications, Dimitri Kitoshvili, has become a reason of a new scandal. Kitoshvili, who was arrested and charged blackmail and extortion, accuses former justice minister...
Georgian governmental delegation has left for Geneva to take part in the internationally mediated peace talks. The participants of the next round of the talks will discuss the issues of human rights on occupied territories, IDPs` secure repatriation, problems on the administrative border line and other...
