The Finnish Foreign Minister and current Chairperson of the OSCE, Elina Valtonen, was fined 5,000 GEL by Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs for blocking central Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi this week. Valtonen was in Georgia on an official visit...
Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has lodged a formal protest with the OSCE Secretariat and participating states, accusing the organization’s Chairperson-in-Office, Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, of exceeding her official mandate during...
Elina Valtonen, Finland’s Foreign Minister and current OSCE Chairperson, has extended an invitation to Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on social media to visit Finland, meet with the free media, and attend any demonstration of his choosing....
Georgia’s Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili has said that the core goal of the ruling party’s constitutional initiative was to ensure a “defensive democracy” - one that protected itself from anti-democratic and extremist forces. “The goal is ver...
Adjara has become a prime destination for investors from Gulf countries seeking profitable opportunities, the Chairman of the Government of Adjara, Sulkhan Tamazashvili, said in an interview with the Gulf News publication of the United Arab Emirates....
An official representing the mayor of Akhalkalaki Municipality in the village of Diliska has been detained by officers of the State Security Service’s Anti-Corruption Agency on charges of accepting a bribe in exchange for issuing false documentation....
A member of Georgia’s parliamentary majority, Vako Turnava, has accused the opposition of attempting to change the government through unlawful and revolutionary means after losing local elections this month. Speaking in an interview with Italy’s Ra...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday alleged that Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen had been “assigned” to encourage a revolutionary process in Georgia, a mission he described as “doomed to fail”. Speaking in an interview wit...
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday said Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen joined an unlawful rally outside the Georgian Parliament on Tuesday, which led to the cancellation of their planned meeting. Speaking in an interview...
Georgia’s Minister of Defence, Irakli Chikovani, on Tuesday participated in the 31st meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, held in Brussels within the Ramstein format. The Ministry said the high-level session took place at NATO Headquarters ...
