From November 27 until November 30 a delegation of Sicilian entrepreneurs of the agri-food sector will visit Tbilisi. The delegation is led by Mr Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of Palermo, Sicily's capital. In the framework of the visit, a presentation of Sicilian food products and B2B meetings will be...
Euro finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund have reached a deal on an urgently needed bailout for near-bankrupt Greece. After 12 hours of talks they agreed on a raft of measures to reduce Greek debt by 40 billion euros to 124 per cent of GDP by 2020. Eurogroup President Jean Claude...
On 16th November the lower house of the US Congress voted overwhelmingly in favour of adopting the so-called Magnitsky Bill. Since the passage of this bill is linked with the repeal of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which will finally normalize US-Russia trade relations, a reluctant President Obama has...
Eric Rubin, US Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs is visiting Georgia. Rubin is scheduled to take part in the meeting of a working group of Defense and Security that will be held within the framework of US-Georgia Strategic Charter cooperation commission. Rubin...
An attack case on Wissol petrol station located at the crossroad of Anagi and Chargali Streets in Tbilisi is solved. Georgian law enforcers arrested three people, who attacked Wissol on November 16. The attackers seized 195 GEL of the company, the operator's cell phone and gold ring. The arrested...
Firefighters have gone on strike in Gori town of Shida Kartli region of Georgia. The firefighters demand an increase in salary and health insurance; they are holding a demonstration in front of the city administration. They put fire-fighting vehicles in the city center. So far nobody from the...
The Georgian Parliamentary Committee of Education and Science will hold a sitting at Academy of Sciences in Tbilisi today. MPs will become introduced with problems facing science sector. Talks will be held about research institutes that were abolished during the period of previous government....
Scientists exhume the body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today to find out whether he died of poisoning. Although his medical records say he had a stroke, abnormally high traces of a radioactive substance have since been discovered on Arafat's personal effects. Investigating...
Former chief of the incomes office of the ministry of finance, Jaba Ebanoidze was interrogated at the investigation department of the same ministry late last night. He was summoned to the department with the status of witness. He said during five hours he was answering the questions about his work as...
The reasons of the death of Georgia`s late Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania will be reinvestigated - his brother Gogla Zhvania announced after leaving the office of the chief prosecutor last night. According to him, he had submitted the documents, which he had obtained and was familiarized with the materials,...
On November 21, Roberto Zuccato, chairman-designate of the confederation manufacturers of the Veneto region (Italy), met with Dimitri Kumsishvili, First Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The Ambassador of Italy to Georgia Federica Favi attended the meeting to underline...
Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has arrived in Tbilisi, today. Ashton has already held a meeting with the Pime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili. Catherine Ashton is scheduled to meet with Georgia's President Mikheil...
Various committees of the Georgian parliament will discuss the draft-law on amnesty tomorrow. The Ministries of Interior, Correction and Justice sent recommendations to the Parliament over the draft. Representatives of the NGOs will take part in the discussions.
Former chief of the incomes office of the ministry of finance, Jaba Ebanoidze has been summoned to the chief prosecutor`s office as a witness today. The case about which the former senior official will be questions is yet unknown, however, the member of the parliamentary minority, former deputy chief...
The tariff on electricity may soon reduced with 0,04 GEL soon - the representatives of the Inter Rao, Russian energy giant will arrive in Tbilisi on November 29th to discuss the possibility of tariff reduction with the authorities of the ministry of energy of Georgia. Deputy Minister has said both sides...
