The Georgian Ministry of Health will see its funding increased by ₾800 million ($294.18mln), bringing total allocations for next year to ₾9.62 billion ($3.54bln), Deputy Finance Minister Giorgi Kakoridze announced at a meeting of the Parliament’s Hea...
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) on Thursday announced it had detained Giorgi Khemoklidze, the former deputy head of the Penitentiary Department, in connection with what investigators described as a staged beating incident involving convicted f...
Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Defence of Georgia, Irakli Chikovani, is paying an official visit to the Republic of Türkiye, where he is taking part in the Azerbaijan-Türkiye-Georgia trilateral meeting of defence ministers. As part of the visit...
The Civil Aviation Agency of Georgia granted Wizz Air an operating permit on October 7 to commence regular flights on a new route connecting Georgia with Venice, Italy. The airline’s application submitted to the Agency said Wizz Air will begin opera...
Opposition leader Irakli Nadiradze on Thursday said he had been placed in Cell 38 of Gldani prison alongside prisoners he described as “prisoners of conscience” convicted for violence during pro-European protests last year, and in a letter circulated...
Chairman of the Parliament Procedural Issues Committee, David Matikashvili, on Thursday claimed that no individual was the victim of the October 4 coup attempt, rather, the “real victim” was the country itself. “On October 4, the attempt to violentl...
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze on Thursday said that “despite multiple warnings” from the state, certain individuals had attempted a coup d’état on October 4, and that the government would respond firmly within the bounds of the law. “A very serious ev...
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has criticized the European People’s Party (EPP) for calling for sanctions against former Prime Minister and ruling Georgian Dream founder Bidzina Ivanishvili, describing the move as an example of “double standards.” “It ...
Georgia’s Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against 13 additional individuals in connection with the October 4 events in Tbilisi, where “protesters attempted to seize the Presidential Administration building.” According to the Prosecutor’s Off...
US Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Jim Risch (R-ID), senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have issued a joint statement expressing “deep “concern over the “deteriorating political situation” in Georgia following the country’s ...
