Happy New Year 2012! Let this New Year be the year of happiness for Georgia and its citizens, for all the people around the world, who feel themselves as the friends and supporters of Georgia. Wish you triumph and success for the wellbeing of our country. In 2011, as usual, we used to try to...
Julio Iglesias, a Spanish singer who has sold over 300 million records, is expected in Georgia's seaside city of Batumi, Adjara region, where he will take part in New Year Concert. Preparations for the concert are already over. The stage and musical equipment are installed in front of the Radisson...
A diet rich in vitamins and fish may protect the brain from ageing while junk food has the opposite effect, research suggests. Elderly people with high blood levels of vitamins and omega 3 fatty acids had less brain shrinkage and better mental performance, a Neurology study found. Trans fats...
Prime Minister Nika Gilauri announced at the summarizing session of the government today that 2011 was the year of victory in Georgia`s foreign policy. Gilauri said it was a very difficult year as the country had to pass through a very hard way, as Russia tried to isolate it, however, everything went...
Tbilisi and Tskhinvali exchanged thirteen detainees from each side on December 30 as agreed during a meeting in frames of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism in Dvani last week. The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Audronius Ažubalis, welcomed the exchange, which...
Yet another modern, multi-functional hospital was opened in Chakvi, Adjara, today. The hospital that will serve 20 patients simultaneously has been constructed by the Imedi L insurance company, which invested 3,5 million GEL in the project. The hospital is equipped with modern European standards and...
Thousands of artefacts recovered from the Titanic are to be sold at auction 100 years after the ocean liner sank. Valued in 2007 at $189m (£121m), the items will be sold by Guernsey Auctioneers in New York on 15 April. The collection of 5,500 items, to be sold as a single lot, were recovered...
Lady Gaga has been inescapable for 2011, so it makes sense that she'll also be on hand to help us draw this year to a close. The New Yorker will be back in town on New Year's Eve as Mayor Bloomberg's special guest, a spokesperson for the mayor tells CNN. Although he's never met...
The winner of the "Best Georgian novel of Year" was revealed in Ligamus book shop located in the premises of Ilia State University last evening. The jury named "The Inflated Angel" by Zaza Burchuladze as the winner. The author received 10 thousand GEL as prize. The jury was...
Five people were killed on Thursday during a bank robbery in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, a police spokeswoman said. At about 3:15 p.m. local time police were alerted to a robbery in progress at a downtown branch of PrivatBank that caters to VIP clients, RIA-Novosti news agency reports. "Five...
A huge fire that engulfed a Russian nuclear submarine undergoing repairs in the northern Murmansk region is contained but not out, officials say. Firefighters battled the blaze for nine hours after it broke out on Thursday on a wooden deck near the Yekaterinburg. Officials said there was no radiation...
At least 35 killed in air raid in southeastern part of country, prompting violent protest in Istanbul, Turkey. Angry protesters have demonstrated against the government in the Turkish city of Istanbul, after 35 people were killed in a Kurdish-dominated village in the country's southeast by an...
Papuna Davitaia, Georgia's State Minister on Diaspora Relations Affairs will sum up activities for 2011 today. The Minister will also present action plan for 2012. According to Davitaia, the main achievement was adoption of the law by the parliament regarding granting those living abroad with...
The number of the convicts, which will be released earlier then their terms expire, will be announced after the session of the Permanent Early Release Commission, which assembles today. The local councils of the commission of the Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance have already discussed applications...
Hundreds of protesters gather in Pushkin Square to demonstrate against detention of leftist opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov. A protest gathering in central Moscow passed off peacefully and with lower-than-expected numbers, a sign that political passions are perhaps cooling as Russia approaches its...
