Georgia News

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

The trial of former Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava and Georgia's former Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili is expected to resume in the capital.

A year after coming to power, the Georgian Dream administration has improved conditions in detention although there's still work to be done on this and other issues.

The Road Department under the Georgian Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure imposed additional restrictions on vehicular movement in the region due to heavy snowfall.

In his recent article "So Long, Saakashvili," Thomas de Waal sums up the presidency of Georgia's Mikhail Saakashvili as a "rebranding exercise" for a country with such a mixed political legacy that it is hard to disentangle myth from reality.

In an act aimed at improving ties between two countries, an Armenian actor and a Turkish actor have set a world record for the longest handshake.

With people still protesting on the streets of Kiev over an abandoned plan to sign a free trade agreement with the EU, politicians in Poland and the EU mull the next step Following the failure of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych to sign the Association Agreement with the EU at a summit in Vilnius, the people of Ukraine hundreds of thousands of ... (more)

Within project on water supply improvement in Georgia , Asian Development Bank approved tranche of $98 million for the country.

A Georgian Orthodox monk uses a cell phone near the mining town of Chiatura in July 2010.

Georgia's ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili is still in business doing two things he likes most - making speeches at protests and fighting his nemesis, Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

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.