Socially vulnerable individuals will retain their state social assistance for four years if they get involved in the government-initiated public employment programme, Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili has stated. The aim of the programme, as i...
Head of the ruling Georgian Dream party Irakli Kobakhidze has stated that only several foreign states have adopted a resolution in support of Ukraine amid fears of an attack by Russia, and that Georgia was among them. He said that the resolution, w...
Georgian Dream MP Guram Macharashvili says that former president Mikheil Saakashvili and his lawyers are spreading ‘fake news’ when they say that the Ukrainian Chief Prosecutor’s Office has granted a victim status to the third president who currently...
MEP Viola von Cramon says that it is heartbreaking to see Georgia continue backsliding on democracy, responding to Georgia’s deteriorated score in the recent democracy index. “Moldova and even Ukraine and Armenia are doing better. Georgia once u...
The United National Movement MP, former head of the National Bank of Georgia Roman Gotsiridze has slammed the Georgian Dream government for its decision to allocate 15 million GEL for Liberty Bank to decrease an interest rate on loans for pensioners....
Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again demanded security guarantees from NATO and the US amid Russia’s build-up of troops at the Ukrainian border. He writes about this in a letter sent to Russian diplomats congratulating them on their pro...
The Georgian Foreign Ministry says that requesting observer state status from UN by the country’s Russian-controlled Abkhazia region is another propagandist move which has no future. The ministry says that the international community is unanimous t...
Transparency International Georgia [https://www.transparency.ge/en] and Internal Society for Fair Elections and Democracy [https://www.isfed.ge/eng] have urged parliament not to suspend MP status for three opposition MPs – Badri Japaridze [https://ww...
Georgian newly elected Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has met with the UK Prime Minister’s International Affairs Adviser and Deputy National Security Adviser, David Quarry, in London, where he has raised the issue of Ukraine and stated that th...
Tbilisi City Court Judge Badri Kochlamazashvili has instructed the director of the Special Penitentiary Service to take all necessary measures within his competence, based on the motion of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili’s lawyers, to protect the he...
