18 July, 2013
“Their import amounted to a state level crime”
“I call on the General Prosecutor and Internal Affairs Minister to ensure fair and fast investigation of the case because five more persons remain in custody,” – declared the former Agricultural Minister Davit Kirvalidze in response to the claims by Mamuka Ivaniadze, Deputy Director of Mekanizatori LTD, asserting that the 26-page testimony he gave against Davit Kirvalidze, was forced out of him by the prosecutor Giorgi Davitashvili by means of harassment and dictate. Following the testimony, on 2 July, Ivaniadze was detained and then released on GEL 10 000 bail. We got in touch with Mamuka Ivaniadze.
18 July, 2013
Interview with Tea Tsulukiani, Minister of Justice
Minister of Justice Tea Tsulukiani shrugs off rumors of the General Prosecutor’s expected resignation as a sham. However, she confirms that Archil Kbilashvili accepted the appeal of Vladimer Bedukadze to the prosecution to relieve him of formal incrimination with torture and inhumane treatment.
17 July, 2013
No development should be allowed to stop as revenge against somebody, President Mikheil Saakashvili said during his visit to the Professional Retraining College in Gldani
16 July, 2013
Individuals who set up apartments for themselves using money designated for feeding soldiers are not worthy of wearing a uniform
15 July, 2013
Defense Minister Irakli Alasania is leading in the National Democratic Institute survey, which evaluated the efforts of the Ministers. 9% evaluated his efforts as the very good, 34% - good, 32% - medium.
15 July, 2013
Education Minister Giorgi Margvelashvili will be replaced by his First Deputy Tamar Sanikidze, the Minister told Guria News agency
13 July, 2013
The President’s Administration is concerned with the imprisonment of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti District Governor Tengiz Gunava, Administration Manager Andro Barnovi said during a special briefing
13 July, 2013
Parliament member Koba Davitashvili – whose law project on limiting gambling games was reviewed by the parliament – was caught on camera playing card game on his smartphone during a session in the law-making body.
12 July, 2013
Europe is the historic choice of our people and it can’t be ascribed as a special achievement of a political power or a generation, the Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili said at the conference “Georgia’s European Way – EU’s Eastern European Partners – Towards the Vilnius Summit”.
12 July, 2013
Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili met his Austrian colleague Johanna Mikl-Leitner on July 11 during the ongoing official visit to the republic.