Georgia News

Azerbaijani delegation headed by the Azerbaijani Minister of Energy Natig Aliyev will participate in the opening ceremony of the Akhaltsikhe substation and high voltage power lines part of the Black Sea transmission network project in Georgia on Dec.11, according to a message published by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Energy on Dec.9. The delegation ... (more)

By Nana Kirtskhalia - Trend: Tbilisi, Georgia, Dec. 9, 2013: U.S. President Barack Obama sent a letter to Georgian former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

By Nana Kirtzkhalia -Trend: Tbilisi, Georgia, Dec.9, 2013: Georgian Defence Minister Irakli Alasania met with his Israeli counterpart Moshe Yaalon.

The Tbilisi city court has sent detained former Deputy Prosecutor-General Davit Chkhatarshvili to pretrial detention.

Azerbaijan and Turkey have started work on the design of the railway, which will connect Kars with Nakhchivan, Turkish Minister of Transport, Shipping and Communications Binali Yildirim said at a press conference at the third Caspian Forum in Istanbul on Thursday.

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.

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.

Ukraine's opposition is seeking to bring one million people onto the streets of the capital today to crank up the pressure on President Viktor Yanukovych after his U-turn away from a European integration accord.

Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and ex-Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat have spoken in Kyiv in support of the tens of thousands of demonstrators demanding closer ties to the European Union.

Plus, Romania's ethnic Hungarians march for greater autonomy and Bosnian Muslims stage a sleep-in protest over school curricula.

On Dec. 2-6, the average price on AZERI LT, exported from Azerbaijan via the Ceyhan, Batumi and Supsa ports to Italian Augusta port, was $114.98 per barrel or $1.4 more compared to the previous week.

Tbilisi will host a final conference on the Vilnius summit titled "Eastern Partnership - the way after Vilnius summit" on Dec.10.

Beka looks worried as he surveys the customers sipping coffee in the late-autumn sun at one of Tbilisi's upscale cafes.

In troubled Abkhazia, just across the border from Sochi, poverty is rampant and futures uncertain-but the tiny ballerinas of the territory's only dance school still have dreams of the big stage.

PUTIN POSTURING IN YEREVAN SPARKS GEORGIAN CONCERN Georgia Today, Georgia Dec 5 2013 Print version The visit of the Russian President to Armenia turned into a very important event.

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland believes that Georgia should continue to set contacts with Abkhazia and Tskhinvali.

Georgia's chain of public-service halls - a fast-food-style dispenser of everything from ID cards to property registrations - broke a mold in the post-Soviet world, where taking care of such tasks usually means taking a long journey though the labyrinths of government bureaucracy.

US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland has arrived in Tbilisi.

The German sociologist Max Weber famously remarked almost a century ago, "The only man who has politics for a vocation is one who is certain that his spirit will not be broken if the world, when looked at from his point of view, proves too stupid or base to accept what he wishes to offer it, and who, when faced with all that obduracy, can still say ... (more)