The meeting was held between the chairman of the Civil Movement "Georgian- Abkhazian and Georgian-Ossetian House" Nestan Kirtadze and the representatives of the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, Mr. Aron Wangborg and Ms. Liselotte Ianstson. At the meeting was considered the situation...
Thirty people got jobs from the Tbilisi City Hall employment base. Each person underwent through training before they were employed at a multi-functional trade center "Fresco," which was opened in Varketili district of Tbilisi. There is a supermarket and a restaurant and café located...
Syrian opposition activists have called for mass rallies in support of the Free Syrian Army, a group of army defectors seeking to topple the government. Demonstrations are reportedly already taking place in Aleppo, Deir al-Zour, Homs, Idlib and suburbs of Damascus. One activist group said two...
A court in Norway has ordered a new psychiatric evaluation of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik after an earlier report found him legally insane. Judge Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen said in Oslo that the new evaluation was necessary because of widespread criticism of the initial findings. On the...
The 15 Georgian sailors, who were released from 16-months captivity of the Somali pirates on December 9, are back to Georgia. A special flight has already landed at Batumi International Airport. Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili bought the sailors by his personal plane from Istanbul to Batumi. Officials...
Leon Panetta, the US defense secretary, has condemned the "utterly deplorable" behavior of several American Marines accused of urinating on the bloody corpses of Taliban fighters, The Telegraph says. Mr. Panetta promised those involved would be punished "to the fullest extent". The...
Fifteen Georgian and three Turk sailors, who were released after 508-days of captivity of Somali pirates, have arrived in Istanbul. The charter flight landed in Ata Turk International Airport a few minutes ago and the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili and the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Taip...
US First Lady Michelle Obama has started a Twitter account as part of her husband's re-election campaign, but was not the first one to post on it. Mrs Obama's account, @michelleobama, will be managed by aides on the Obama campaign, with any tweets from the first lady herself to be signed "-mo." Within...
Ireland will seek progress on so-called protracted conflicts involving Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldova, which remain unresolved some two decades after they erupted in war - Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland Eamon Gilmore, Vice Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore has said. Mr Gilmore laid out...
Russian Journalist Oleg Panfilov said Putin (Russian Prime Minister) was trying to retain his authorities through aggressive plans. Panfilov thus evaluated Putin's 6-point election program. The journalist claimed that the Europe had to try to block Putin's political moves. He also compared...
A fire broke out at Mukhatgverdi cemetery in the outskirts of Tbilisi. About 3 hectares of territory has been burnt down. Eight brigades of Fire-fighting Service worked at site to extinguish the flames. Investigation will determine exact causes of the fire.
Tajik opposition leader and journalist Dododzhon Atovulloyev was gravely stabbed in his stomach in Moscow on Thursday night. He is now in intensive care at a Moscow hospital, a hospital spokesperson said today. The 53-year-old Tajik journalist, charged at home with `libeling the president and government...
Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) says the December 4 elections for the Russian state Duma were not fair. The OSCE office added that the authorities had meddled in the election process on all levels. "The contest...
Vladimir Putin, Russian Federation's Prime Minister introduced "Program 2012-2018" as part of his pre-election campaigning. Russian media informs that the document is published on the web page "Putin 2011". Meanwhile, the Russian opposition started preparations for the next...
The 15 Georgian sailors who were released from captivity of the Somali pirates on December 9 will be back to Batumi, Georgia, sometime later this afternoon. An airplane belonging to "Airzena" Georgian Air Company will bring the sailors back home to Batumi by a special flight. Their...
