Georgian activist and teacher Nino Datashvili has been released from pre-trial detention after the court agreed to replace custody with 5000 GEL bail, following a request by the Prosecutor’s Office that was supported by the defence. Lawyers said Dat...
A senior figure from the opposition Unity- National Movement has accused the Georgian government of pursuing “brutal, Russian-style” legislation in a bid to suppress pro-European political forces. Levan Bezhashvili said the authorities had failed to...
A Georgian household where two members each earn 1300 GEL a month - including income from rent - is already considered liable to pay property tax, opposition MP Roman Gotsiridze has said, calling for urgent reform of the system. Gotsiridze told Fron...
Georgia’s Ministry of Defence is advancing construction on a new military cadet lyceum in Krtsanisi designed for up to 350 cadets, as well as 44 seven-storey residential buildings on Makhata Mountain, officials said on Wednesday after a site visit by...
Georgian police have seized 126 packages of the narcotic substance methadone and arrested a man born in 1985 in the Shida Kartli region on suspicion of illegal possession and facilitating the distribution of drugs in particularly large quantities, th...
Georgian police have arrested a 27-year-old man on charges of human trafficking and facilitating the sexual exploitation of a minor, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced. According to officials, the suspect - identified only as L.Kh [http:...
US President Donald Trump is preparing additional tough sanctions against Russia in an effort to pressure Vladimir Putin into negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, US Ambassador to NATO Matt Whitaker said on Tuesday. “We have imposed these sanctio...
Member of the European Parliament Rasa Juknevičienė on Tuesday criticised the Georgian ruling party’s move to seek the ban of major opposition political forces in the country, calling the development “shocking”. Juknevičienė was responding to the Ge...
A group of opposition activists, including members of the Coalition for Change, have begun a hunger strike outside the Georgian Parliament on Rustaveli Avenue in central Tbilisi. The protest was initiated by coalition member Gedevan Popkhadze and in...
Georgia’s fifth president, Salome Zourabichvili, on Tuesday condemned the ruling Georgian Dream party’s initiative to ban key opposition parties, calling it an attempt to turn the country into a “Russian-style authoritarian regime”. In a statement p...
