Georgia’s former PM [https://www.facebook.com/GakhariaGiorgi] under the current ruling Georgian Dream party will run for Tbilisi mayor in the October 2 municipal elections. His major competitors will be incumbent mayor Kakha Kaladze from the ruli...
Georgian Public Defender Nino Lomjaria, whose office is monitoring the human rights violations during the pre-election period, says that 62 employees were subjected to various forms of pressure ahead of the October 2 municipal elections. “Most o...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that if Georgia will not use the Russian factor to maintain the patronage of the west, and is ready to ‘calmly live’ next to its neighbor, ‘Russia is ready to restore ties anytime.’ He also said that a...
MEP Viola Von Cramon has shared a Front News story [../details/11014] on her official Twitter page, in which the Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili criticized MEPs for their comments following the Georgian government’s ‘refusal’ on the EU loan, writing ...
An interim report for the October 2 municipal elections by International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) has pointed at direct or indirect coercion of persons employed in educational institutions around the country in the ruling Geor...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has stated that MEPs who have criticized the Georgian government ‘for not fulfilling preconditions’ to receive the second portion of the EU’s 150 million euro loan, ‘are not well aware of the situation in G...
Georgia has reported 3,886 new cases of coronavirus of 52,162 tests, 4,103 recoveries and 74 deaths in the past 24 hours. The rate of new infections has slightly decreased since the country reimposed restrictions earlier this month. However, dai...
For the first time since 2007 more deaths have been reported in Georgia than births. Plus 1,637 children were born in 2019, while the figure was minus 4,017 in 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has increased deaths in the country by five perce...
MEP Viola von Cramon says that it is not the Georgian government which refused to take the second part (75 million EUR) of the EU’s 150 million EUR loan. Cramon has tweeted that the Georgian government has failed to fulfil the requirements to recei...
The EU delegation to Georgia has responded to the Georgian government’s today’s refusal to receive the 75 million EUR loan, stating that the EU ‘respects’ the decision, but says that Georgia may have not received the loan at all because the country h...
