Today on September 24, the final day of the Tourism Carrier Week will be held. Maya Sidamonidze, Tourism Agency head opens today a ‘carrier day' for job seekers. Prospective employees will meet with employers in area of hospitality and tourism. The event will be held in the hotel...
Turkey has seized a Syrian-flagged ship loaded with weapons, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. He did not say where or when the vessel was stopped, but vowed to confiscate any arms shipments for Syria coming through Turkish waters or airspace. Mr Erdogan has repeatedly criticised...
A trial of a new cancer drug, which accurately targets tumours, has been so successful it has been stopped early. Doctors at London's Royal Marsden Hospital gave prostate cancer patients a powerful alpha radiation drug and found that they lived longer, and experienced less pain and side effects. The...
The Russian Foreign Ministry declared that the speech of Georgian President at the 66-th UN General Assembly was not a special one and distinguished from similar other speeches. For this reasons it needs no special attention from the Russian side. "I do not think that this speech deserves a...
France is to withdraw around 200 troops from its 4,000-strong force fighting as part of the NATO coalition in Afghanistan before the end of next month, the military said Thursday. "France will pull out the equivalent of a combat company and its support elements," Colonel Thierry Burkhard,...
President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili met with the President of the United States Barack Obama in New York. The meeting was held in an informal environment at the lunch held on behalf of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. The lunch is usually attended by the leaders of the UN General Assembly member...
Georgian Theatre Director Robert Sturua in the nearest future plans to continue his activity in the Moscow's "Et Cetera", the Russian media dissiminates this informaition. "Now I have to accomplish some businesses in Tbilisi. On October 2 I will be in Moscow,"- Robert Sturua...
The Israeli Embassy expressed its concern over the inhuman and degrading treatment towards imprisoned in Georgia Israeli businessmen Ronny Fux and Zev Frenkel. According to the information disseminated by the Israeli embassy, the embassy sent a note of protest to the Georgian Justice Ministry, Corrections...
The capital prepares to meet Nicola Sarkozy, French President. He will arrive on October 7 evening. For that time facades of buildings at the central square will be repaired. French President's address to the Georgian population is planned at the central square from the the City Council's building,...
The question of Russian Federation's WTO membership is not connected with the reoccupation of Georgia. Giorgi Baramidze, vice-Prime Minister said this over CNN. He underlined if Russia will satisfy all conditions which are necessary to become a member of WTO, then it will join it. This...
Today European Court of Human Rights holds a hearing under inter-state application lodged by Georgia against Russia in connection to the August, 2008 war. Georgia appealed the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights on August 11, 2008, a day before the ceasefire agreement was signed with Russia and the final,...
Eka Beselia asked Chief Procurator to make responsive measures in connection with the unlawful dispersion of metallurgic workers protest action in Kutaisi. She asked him to react to the fact of its detention. Beselia said metallurgic workers who protested on September 15 at the fabric "Hercules"...
In respect with the U.S. position in the confrontation over the Palestinian bid to win recognition as a state at the UN, President Saakashvili said although Palestine had the right to statehood, it should be resolved through negotiations. "We do believe, that primarily Israel has the right to...
Orthodox Christians mark the Day of Mother of God today. His Holiness, Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II conducted holly service at the Didube Virgin Mary Church today on occasion that the Orthodox Christians mark the Day of Mother of God today. Patriarch preached after the service about the significance...
The Labor Party addresses to the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe. The party states that Georgian people cannot reconcile with the monoparty ruling and repressive democracy. This was stated today at the briefing by Nestan Kirtadze, International Secretary of the Labor Party. Now is a time...
