A governmental hour will be held in the parliament today. MPs will meet with the Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili and Deputy Justice Minister Tina Burjaliani. They will answer on questions of lawmakers.MPs have already sent questions to the government members. Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili...
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili continues his visit to South Korea. Saakashvili has already held a meeting with his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak. Sides discussed bilateral cooperation in the field of energy, truism and other spheres. Presidents talked about implementation...
An amazing fountain will be opened on Batumi seaside by the end of this summer, which aims to attract more visitors to one of the most beautiful cities of Georgia. Construction of a new tower with a fountain on its top is already underway on Gogebashvili Street and it will be special and distinguished...
The sunny weather is reported for March 28 across Georgia. The air temperature will be 13 degrees by Celsius scale in western Georgia, while 10 in Tbilisi. The Georgian weather forecasters prognosticate unstable weather till the end of the month. It will be raining in Tbilisi and regions as of March...
The Georgian parliament approved the Law on Drugs and Psychotropic medicines through the first hearing. The changes envisage precision in drugs' lists and dozes. Persons using small doses of heroin and methadone will not be arrested but will have to pay fines. The money will be used for carrying...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev tweaked Mitt Romney for his characterization of Russia as the "No. 1 geopolitical foe" of the United States, saying the comments did not reflect the current relationship between the two countries, Gabriella Schwartz reports on CNN's Political Ticker. "It...
19th round of international negotiations on Georgia-Russia issues will be held in Geneva today. Georgian delegation plans to raise the issue of laying responsibility on Russia on non-use of force and elaborating international mechanisms for the occupied territories of Georgia. Georgian authorities...
Georgian lawmakers say the statement of the so-called deputy minister of foreign affairs of the Abkhazia`s puppet regime about restoration of Georgian church-monasteries in the region is yet another absurd. Irakli Khintba stated a few days after Georgia released concerning video-and photo evidences proving...
World Bank has allocated a low percent loan of $60 million to Georgia`s government, which is intended for the large-scale rehabilitation project of the Kakheti Region of Georgia. Minister of Finance of Georgia Dimitri Gvindadze has said that the contract signed between teh World Bank and the government...
The Kremlin has reiterated its irritation regarding the cooperation of Georgia and the United States in the military sphere. The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia asserts that Georgia`s participation in the ISAF mission aims at Georgia`s militarization and preparation...
Speaker of the parliament of Georgia, Davit Bakradze visited the city of Gori today. Speaker met with local population at local Centre of Culture and answered their questions, which mostly referred to health care, state-funded insurance and agriculture programs. After the meeting, Davit Bakradze visited...
Press speaker for the president, Manana Manjgaladze spoke about the significance of the Seoul Nuclear Security Summit and summed up the implementation of president`s two new initiatives at the briefing today. Manjgaladze said the summit was very important for Georgia, because of the country`s substantive...
The North-Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) does not recognize Sunday's so-called presidential elections held in Georgia's occupied region of South Ossetia as legitimate. In an exclusive interview with "Moambe" news program of First Channel, James Appaturai, Special Representative...
The IMF ROSC mission visited Georgia in October 2011 with the aim to assess the system of economic and financial statistics (produced by the Geostat, Ministry of Finance, and the National Bank of Georgia). The mission assessed Georgia's compliance with the international standards of the IMF data...
People who eat chocolate regularly tend to be thinner, new research suggests. The findings come from a study of nearly 1,000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity. It found those who ate chocolate a few times a week were, on average, slimmer...
