Chief of Azerbaijan`s Central Election Commission Mazahir Panahov has given a press conference to announce initial results of the parliamentary elections. Panahov said the elections started at 8.00 a.m. and completed at 7 p.m. He noted the voting took place in 5,314 polling stations in 125...
President of Azerbaijan, Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev has today attended a farewell ceremony for national hero Mubariz Ibrahimov and senior lieutenant Farid Ahmadov who was awarded a medal for bravery by presidential order. Both heroically died in the battle against occupant Armenians on the...
Tomorrow in Malaysia on accusation of drug abuse Darejan Kokhtashvili's court hearing will be held. Two Georgian citizens Darejan Kokhtashvili and Babutsa Gordadze are detained for the illegal crossing of the border in Malaysia and for the drug traffic. Gordadze is already sentenced by the Malaysian...
Today the Pegasus Airlines didn't take the airway from Tbilisi to Istanbul. As the representatives of Pegasus told to GHN the reason of annulling the trip was the bad weather in Istanbul. They explained that, because of fog Istanbul Airport is not able to receive airplanes. For the same reason Turkish...
His Royal Highness The Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex KG KCVO visited Georgia 4-5 November 2010. On 4 November he officially opened the new British Embassy premises in Krtsanisi, Tbilisi, GHN was informed about this in Georgia by the Embassy of UK. Her Majesty's Ambassador to Georgia, Judith...
UKRINFORM/. Defense Minister Mykhailo Yezhel within the frames of an official visit to Tbilisi has discussed with his Georgian counterpart Bacho Akhalaya a wide spectrum of the issues on development of bipartite cooperation in the defense sphere, the press service of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry informs. "We...
"Georgia breaks Russian spy ring" - this is the title of the article published on the web page of BBC. "Georgia says it has dismantled a major Russian spy ring and arrested 13 suspects. The suspects, including four Russian citizens and Georgian military officers, fed sensitive...
Georgian Parliamentary Finance-Budgetary Committee will discuss the state budget 2011 today. Zurab Melikishvili, the head of the Finance-Budgetary Committee stated that the priorities of financing go to healthcare. The budgets of the ministries of Healthcare and Agriculture will be discussed....
Prince Edward of the British royal family opened a new building of the British Embassy in Georgia yesterday. The embassy is located in Krtsanisi district in Tbilisi. The delegation from Great Britain, Georgian and foreign diplomats as well as representatives of political sphere attended the ceremony. Prince...
The Counter-Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has conducted a major operation in the result of which it has uncovered several dozens of people covertly working for the Main Intelligence Division of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (commonly known...
The transference of the media will be the one of the issues discussed today at the meeting between Georgian Parliamentary majority and the National Democratic Institute (NDI). The meeting will be held in Batumi, Adjara region. The representatives of the NDI believe that such consultations will...
A domestic passenger plane with 61 passengers and 7 crew members onboard crashed in central Cuba Thursday.There were no survivors. The Aerocaribbean plane was carrying 28 foreign passengers and 40 Cubans. The plane was traveling from the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba and heading to the...
One died in car accident, which occurred yesterday at Mitskevichi Street, Tbilisi. The Mercedes mark of a car speeding along flipped off the road and crashed onto a stopped car and then onto the tree. High speed is said to have caused the accident. One passengers of the car died, driver received...
Among the world's 174 economies, Georgia improved its business environment the most in the last five years, according to Doing Business 2011: Making a Difference for Entrepreneurs, the eighth in a series of annual reports published by IFC and the World Bank. Doing Business 2011 pioneers a new...
Details of divulged case will become known today. Reuters reported detention of 20 persons suspected of spying for Russia six days ago. Georgian Interior Ministry has been refraining from making any comment on teh case during these days, although reportedly, the comments will be made at press conference...
