Mamuka Mdinaradze has been appointed as the new Head of Georgia’s State Security Service, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced at a briefing on Saturday. Mdinaradze will replace Anri Okhanashvili, who has resigned from the position. Okhanashv...
Anri Okhanashvili on Saturday announced his resignation as Head of Georgia’s State Security Service, saying he would continue his work as the Prime Minister’s adviser on national security issues. “I would like to inform the public that, following co...
Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya on Friday praised the Trump administration’s efforts to bring Kyiv and Moscow to the negotiating table but said he saw “no signs” of readiness from the Kremlin for substantive dialogue. In an ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday said Ukraine would never hand over its territories to Russia. Speaking at the National Flag Day, Zelenskyy noted the flag of his country symbolised deliverance for Ukrainians returning from Russian...
French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Olivier Courteaud as France’s new Ambassador to Georgia. The French President’s decree nominating the new ambassador was signed on August 7. Courteaud previously served as a Senior Administrator. Fren...
Opposition figure Roman Gotsiridze on Friday criticised the government’s plan to build a new stadium in Tbilisi, calling it a “corrupt project” and a misuse of public money. In a social media post, Gotsiridze, who had served as the president of the ...
A lawmaker from the ruling Georgian Dream party has accused the opposition of using “externally crafted slogans” to stir unrest, warning that young people could be misled into breaking the law. Speaking in parliament on Friday, Irakli Kadagishvili c...
Levan Machavariani, deputy head of the ruling Georgian Dream party faction, on Friday rejected European criticism of the country’s authorities over alleged democratic backsliding, saying such claims were “absolutely baseless” and “nothing but rumours...
Tina Bokuchava, head of the opposition United National Movement (UNM), has said the ruling Georgian Dream party will “end very soon,” citing the “courage of political prisoners” arrested during pro-European protests and the activism of Archil Muselia...
A Georgian parliamentary delegation is paying an official visit to Brazil, where it has held meetings with senior lawmakers, Georgia’s parliament announced on Friday. The delegation met Nelsonio Trad, chair of the Senate’s Foreign Relations and Defe...
