President Barack Obama on Monday offered a plan to reduce the nation's deficit by $3.6 trillion, almost half of which would come from tax increases, including a new tax on millionaires. "Either we ask the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share in taxes, or we're going to have to...
Ankara will start the gas mining in Cyprus soon. The Turkish Prime Minister Receep Tyip Erdogan said recently, after the Cyprus expressed willingness to start the gas mining at the southern coastal line of the island. Turkey responded in such way to the Cyprus' initiative for gas processing....
European Bank of Reconstruction and Development has published new survey about Georgia, Rustavi 2 reports. The survey of living conditions in the under-developed countries aims to clarify how the transitional period is reflected on political reforms, economics and the attitude of the population towards...
Koba Davitashvili, leader of People's Party is not willing to say anything about the protest action which is planned on September 27 under the headship of National Forum. "I believe no disagreements will arise in the ‘political six' for this protest action. The ‘political six'...
Nestan Kirtadze, International Secretary of Labor Party said that the "Georgian's Marsh" which is planned for the September 27 is only a theoretical political project. "I cannot estimate this project which is factually a theoretical one. I am not aware about this one. Looks like...
Eka Beselia will join the Defense Lawyers' protest action organized by the Georgian Defense Layers Association. "For the last period of time defense lawyers are persecuted from the government much more. They are facing numerous obstacles in its professional activity. They are suffering arrests...
Georgians should prove its willingness to return to the Russian market with actions, Genady Onishenko, chief sanitarian of Russian Federation said. "The Georgian business makes only declarations about aspiration to return to the Russian market, - he said, - but until now they did not pass...
"The UN Assembly General will be held on September 19-23, "- Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister said this during a traditional briefing in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She said that Georgian delegates are well represented and the UN Assembly General gives a possibility to Georgia...
Nino Kalandadze, Georgian Foreign Minister said the negotiations between Georgia and EU which are conducted four times a year will be held on September 22 in Tbilisi. "Special attention will be paid to the neighborhood policy, Eastern Partnership Program and associative membership agreement,...
Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco (Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi) will attend the Georgian winter resort today. He will arrive to Bakuriani to commemorate Georgian Lugar Nogar Kumaritashvili who dies tragically at the Winter Olympics. Prince privately was introduced with Georgian Lugar....
Tomorrow on September 19 Georgia will visit Tina Aketoft, head of the PACE Sub-Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population She will start the official meeting from September 20 in the EU Office in Tbilisi. A well she will meet with EU member countries Ambassadors. In the second half of the...
Georgian mountain climbers found a Ukrainian tourist's corps. Dead person allegedly is Igor Legvinenko, head of Ukraine Alpinists. He reached the Mkhinvari pike from the Russian Federation side from Ossetia.
Robert Sturua, Art Director of the Rustaverli Theatre, who was dismissed recently under the order of Culture Minister, Nikoloz Rurua, published a letter over the facebook. He addresses in his letter to the Culture Minister, asking him to appoint to the position of the Rustaveli Theatre's manager....
In Latvia oppositional union Conformity Center won early parliamentary elections with 30% votes. The Latvian CEC informs that yesterday elections during all 20 years of independence were the most passive. Only 58.77% of electorate took part in elections procedures.
The only daughter and eldest child of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, Kara, has died of heart failure aged 51, her brother Patrick has said. The former TV producer was in remission after having a malignant tumour on her lung removed in 2003. She had been weakened physically, he said. In recent years,...
