NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs in the Caucasus and Central Asia welcomes the decision of Georgia’s authorities to involve International observers in the October elections.
Georgian beer company “Natakhtari” will welcome a number of guests at the first Beer Festival held in Telavi and Batumi.
Vladimer Papava was elected as rector of Tbilisi State University. Papava got 10 votes, while his opponent Irma Ratiani got 2 votes, an InterpressNews correspondent reports.
The Voice of America has published an article with the title ‘Georgia and Russia: Rekindling an Old Love Affair?’ The author of the article recalls his first visit to Georgia.
The President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili shook hands and exchanged words on the U.S. ship Bulkeley.
The New York Times reports about the Georgian restaurant Oda House, in Manhattan that serves famous Georgian dishes which is “a rarity this side of the Brooklyn Bridge”.
Abkhazia's de-facto President Alexander Ankvab talked in an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia about what Abkhazia's assessment of the events of August 2008 is now like
Five years passed since the Russia-Georgia war in 2008. 228 citizens, 170 military officers and 14 policemen died in August war. 8 soldiers are considered missing. Almost 150 thousand people fled their homes, 30 000 out of which are considered IDPs.
“The war was a tragedy for our country”, the Minister of Internal Affairs Irakli Gharibashvili told journalists, who hosted the family of the police officers who died in the august war.
'We do not welcome Georgia's membership in NATO', Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an exclusive interview with the Georgian TV Company “Rustavi-2”.