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Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava has been questioned in connection with an ongoing investigation into alleged misspending of public funds by former employees of two municipal funds.

Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia chairing the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation organisation, David Usupashvili has officially opened the 42nd plenary session of PABSEC on Dec.18.

Artur Sakunts, the head of Helsinki Citizens' Assembly Vanadzor Office, recalled that president gave no explanations regarding his move.

Office of the Chief Prosecutor of Georgia has released a special statement in response to the allegations voiced by the UNM Secretary General Vano Merabishvili at his trial in Kutaisi court today.

ARMENIAN, GEORGIAN MPS MEET Eurasia Review Dec 16 2013 By Civil.Ge December 16, 2013 - A group of senior Georgian and Armenian lawmakers discussed inter-parliamentary cooperation during a two-day OSCE-organized meeting in Alaverdi, Lori province of Armenia on December 14-15.

TURKEY ALLIANCE AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE CURRENT GEOPOLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS http://artsakhtert.com/eng/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1308:-azerbaijan-georgia-turkey-alliance-against-the-background-of-the-current-geopolitical-developments&catid=5:politics&Itemid=17 Monday, 16 December 2013 10:00 Just two days after the Vilnius ... (more)

Tbilisi, Georgia , Dec. 17 By Nana Kirtzkhalia - Trend: Georgia expects investments totalling $400-700 million as part of the second phase of Azerbaijani Shah Deniz field's development, Georgian Energy and Natural Resources Minister, Kakha Kaladze told journalists on Dec. 17 .

Giorgi Zhvania, a Georgian NGO worker who together with 9 other Georgians has traveled to Ukraine to support the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv.

The Department of Roads under Ministry of Economic Development of Georgia said that because of the snow and ice-covered ground, trailer and semi-trailer vehicles and buses with a capacity of over 30 people can move along the Mleta-Lars section of the Mtskheta-Stepantsminda-Lars highway using only tyre chains.

Congress has largely been inept of representatives with strength, accountability, and the will to represent those that elected them.

Tbilisi, Georgia , Dec. 17 By Nana Kirtzkhalia - Trend: The Chinese government will deliver a grant worth $4.9 million .

Environmentalists raise alarm: construction of the North-South transport corridor will damage 81% of fruit trees in Artashat community.

The 42nd General Assembly of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation will start in Tbilisi's Courtyard Marriott hotel on Tuesday, the Georgian parliament told Trend.

For three years Georgian teachers have failed to make the grade in state certification tests.

Plus, a dwindling number of marchers in Moscow demand the release of political prisoners, and Uzbekistan's first daughter runs into legal trouble at home.

An ambitious programme of local government reforms has come under attack from the head of the Georgian Orthodox church, who warned that too much devolution would encourage separatism.

Interpol is in many ways a strange organization. Strange, because most of what people know about it is wrong.

Former governor of the Dzveli Tbilisi district, Lasha Purtskhvanidze and his deputy Koba Kharshiladze have been arrested.

A delegation of the European Socialist Party and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats of the European Parliament has arrived in Tbilisi.

Plus, Georgian exports to Russia rebound after embargo ends, and Bosnian Serbs consider how to commemorate the centenary of World War I. The six men, arrested 6 November in Pristina and Gjilan, are reported to be members of a Muslim extremist group, the Muslim Believers of Tawhid and Jihad in Kosovo.