06 August, 2013
Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili published a letter in the Wall Street Journal analyzing current political situation in Georgia, reforms carried out by his government and foreign policy attitudes.
01 August, 2013
Political expert Ramaz Sakvarelidze talked about presidential candidates and presidential elections. Georgian Journal offers his ides on how he sees presidential elections from hot summer perspective.
01 August, 2013
PM Bidzina Ivnishvili declared again that till the end of this year, he will leave politics and his post. It can dramatically change the situation in the political life of Georgia. Georgian Journal talked to expert Nika Chitadze about governing methods of Georgian Dream and National Movement, presidential elections and how the statement of Bidzina Ivanishvili can influence the results of the elections.
01 August, 2013
Interview with Eldar Shengelaia, a renowned producer
‘It was clear from the beginning that ex-Premier Zurab Zhvania was killed. They concealed it but these reckless people don’t know that nothing can be hidden in this world! …He was my teacher of politics’…- says famous producer Eldar Shengelaia, who intends to dedicate a film to his deceased friend.
30 July, 2013
The EUobserver website interviewed Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili in hus summer residence in Ureki.
25 July, 2013
The Commission set up in Georgia to oversee the handling of material which had resulted from illegal surveillance activities in the past years had a meeting on 13 July 2013 in Tbilisi to which Thomas Hammarberg, the EU Special Adviser on Legal and Constitutional Reform
25 July, 2013
former advisor to Prime MinisterExclusive interview with Lincoln Mitchell,
Prime Minister’s former advisor speaks about the future of Abkhazia and so-called South Ossetia. He also forecasts Mikheil Saakashvili’s possible future and declares that for fighting the ‘National Movement’ possesses only two weapons.
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.
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 Gia Baramidze, minority member
New authorities promised people that it would soon be known what happened on February 3, 2005. The society is expected with great interest to learn who betrayed deceased Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania. We asked to comment Giorgi Baramidze, Zhvania’s friend and team-member, who is named as one of the alleged participants of the assassination.
18 July, 2013
Interview with expert Alexandre Tvalchrelidze
We spoke with expert Alexandre Tvalchrelidze about the old and new administrations. At present he sees nothing alarming and considers that very soon all questions will be answered.
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.
11 July, 2013
The construction works at the Georgian segments of upcoming Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway, expected to connect the east with the west through the direct rail route, develops without problems and is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2014.
11 July, 2013
Georgian Journal offers an extract of the interview of the Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili with Russian editorial office of Deutsche Welle, were he talks about Russian-Georgian relations and presidential elections. The Prime Minister confirmed again his intention to go from politics. On the question of the journalist of DW, why the candidate of Georgian Dream is not Bidzina Ivanishvili, he answered: “I am going to leave politics and it will happen very soon – after the elections. That’s why I am not going to run for the presidency.
11 July, 2013
Georgian Journal talked to expert Sandro Tvalchrelidze about presidential elections and nominated possible candidates.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Prime Minister Ivanishvili made a brave statement when he said Mikheil Saakashvili was responsible for the August 2008 conflict. He highly evaluated the above-mentioned statement of the Georgian Prime Minister in his interview with the Russia Today TV. "It is enough to recall what Georgian Prime Minister Ivanishvili said. He said the truth: ‘Saakashvili! You provoked everything and fueled the conflict. "Probably, it was difficult to say, but these were brave words," said Dmitry Medvedev.
