Human Rights Watch says in its recent report that setbacks in several areas of human rights occurred during 2021 in Georgia ‘against the backdrop of a dramatic political standoff between the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) and opposition parties that domi...
The Georgian president has signed a bill initiated by the ruling Georgian Dream party MPs which envisages the abolishment of the State Inspector’s Service as it is now and instead offers the creation of two agencies – one which will look into alleged...
Georgia’s imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili is attending a trial hearing in his own case in Tbilisi City Court where he had a dispute with a judge. The hearing is being held in the case of illegally crossing the border from Ukraine to...
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that he has chaired ‘not an easy’ discussion of the NATO-Russia council amid current tension at the Ukrainian border and Russia’s demands to the alliance not to add new members, including Ukraine and Georg...
The ruling Georgian Dream MP Anri Okhanashvili says that both the leaders of the United National Movement and Lelo opposition parties have been involved in ‘legal and political fraud.’ Tbilisi City Court has found Lelo leaders, founders of TBC Bank...
Leader of the Labour Party Shalva Natelashvili may enter parliament. He says he is scheduled to make the decision in early February. Like several other opposition parties, Natelashvili has been demanding repeat parliamentary elections since 2020 ...
Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell says that Russia violated three fundamental principles in terms of Georgia first in 2008 and then in Ukraine...
Lelo leaders Mamuka Khazaradze and Badri Japaridze, as well as the prosecution say that they will appeal the verdict of Tbilisi City Court delivered today which found the politicians, founders of TBC Bank of fraud after requalifying money laundering ...
The United States is committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty and principles of international relations that undergird peace and prosperity throughout Europe, the US Embassy to Georgia says. The United States ‘strongly opposes’ Russia’s continued troop b...
Former US Ambassador to Georgia Ian Kelly says that he is disappointed by the current government of Georgia ‘which is going backwards.’ He has told Voice of America that the Georgian Dream government ‘prefers to be silent and not to actively sup...
