EP approved the agreement on visa simplification regime with Georgia, GHN reports. Based on this agreement issue of visas for Georgian citizens will be easier. According to the official information the agreement will simplify the mechanisms of visa issue and list of documents necessary for the short...
Today on December 15 the Moscow's Khamovnish Court will start to deliver a judgment on the second court trial on Khodorkovsky's case. Probably the delivering of the judgment will take several days. Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev (head of Menatep) were sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment...
Today on December 15 at 12:00 in the Georgian Young Lawyers Association round table will be hold dedicated to elections problems. Many international and local organizations will participate in this gathering. The report will be presented and the discussion will be held. The arrangement will be held in...
According to Georgian statistics in the third quarter of the 2010 in Georgia the amount of direct foreign investments reached USD 160 mn. This is for 7 percent less than in previous years. The most part of investments were made in financial sector in transport and real estate, in the energy sector...
Giorgi Baramidze, State Minister in European and Euro Atlantic integration met with Alexander Wershbow, USA Deputy Defense Secretary. The meeting was held in USA and talks touched the question of defense ability of Georgia and speedily integration to NATO. "Wershbow is privately involved in NATO...
Ortvin Henig, German envoy to Georgia will visit Kutaisi, GHN reports. In the frames of the visit the envoy will hold a visit with Imerety Governor Lasha Makatsaria, with Kutaisi Mayor Giorgi Tevdoradze, and with Giorgi Davitadze, professor, rector of the State University named after A.Tsereteli. He...
Ex Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovski is awarded with the medal of Rainer Hildebrandt for the contribution in human rights. This medal will be passed to him by his mother. Markuus Lening German government representative in human rights said the court trial of Mikhaial accusing him in oil affairs is of political...
Abkhazia wishes to conclude an agreement with Georgia about non use of force, the GHN reports. Viacheslav Chirikba, head of Abkhazian delegation at Geneva negotiations said. "Our goal is to reach a full agreement with Georgia about non use of force. In the security group we have to start to work...
The recession of democracy - this is a headline of the influential USA newspaper The Wall Street Journal. In many countries the situation with political freedoms in many countries getting worse. A few time passed since the democracy wave stroke the world. Orange, Rose and other colored revolutions...
Georgian delegation headed by Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze took part in the Eastern European ministerial in Brussels on December 13. The ministerial was headed by Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, High Reprezentiave for Foreign Affairs and security Policy of the EU. The...
Turkish company Ughersan is interested with the free economic zone. The news agency GHN was informed from the Ajara government, those Turkish company representatives meet with Finance and Economic Minister Vaja Bolqvadze. They discussed investment environment and the government's approach to the...
Tbilisi is elected as a chair of the European Neighbourhood Policy working group. From the last year December Tbilisi was a Vice Chair city. Tbilisi is the only city among the Eastern European countries that became a chair city of 17 European cities. In Spain, in Saragosa the main Cities Network...
Levan Gachechiladze declares that he is ready for debates with all those politicians who in 2008 during the Presidential elections were presenting the governmental side - with Mikheil Saakashvili and with Nino Burjanadze. This declaration made public Eros Kitsmarishvili, Secretary of the Georgian Party...
Christian Democrats Advised to government to be more loyal to the entrepreneurs. Giorgi Targamadze leader of the Christian democrats said this after the meeting of Kakha Baindurashvili finance Minister with Parliamentary majority and minority. He noted that businessman started to interact with tax...
The Malaysian Court decided to hold a court hearing in connection with the detained Georgians only after the actual chemical expertise will be conducted. Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister said this to journalists. In this context she said today the decision will not be delivered by the Court....
