Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to enforce a ceasefire deal to end the violence in eastern Ukraine, under heavy pressure from EU leaders at a summit in Milan, though a clear breakthrough to end the conflict remained elusive, Financial Times has reported. The...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel says "no breakthough" has been made in direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Though some EU leaders said real progress had been made, Russia complained of "difficulties", reports GHN based on DW. Initially, Europe's political leaders...
Representatives of the prestigious European School of Oncology (ESO) of Milan, Italy, are today in Tbilisi for a second training course on cancer medicine. The two-days training takes place at the Medical University of Georgia and targets 68 oncologists from 14 countries, many of them from Georgia. It...
New ambassador of European Union Ianosh Herman presented his credentials to the President of Georgia. The first person of the country marked that European Union is most important partner for Georgia and collaboration after signing of Association Agreement collaboration has more big importance, reports...
German drones that can be used as part of the work of the OSCE monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine cannot withstand temperatures as low as minus 19 degrees Celsius. Therefore, their use in Ukraine in winter could be thrown into question, German newspaper Bild reported on Friday. "It's difficult...
On October 14-15, the first Deputy State Minister on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, David Dondua participated in the international conference "NATO 2020: Alliance Renewed" organized by the Center for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA) of Slovakia, Johns Hopkins University...
Today the Minister of Defense of Georgia Irakli Alasania attended the events of celebration of day of veterans. The event was held with the initiative of the state service of veteran's affairs. On the Territory of Tbilisi Sea, where there was opened park of veterans. Representatives of Tbilisi City...
Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed in the area of the antiterrorist operation in eastern Ukraine in the past 24 hours, reports GHN based on Ukrinform. Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing in Kyiv on Friday. "In general,...
A fight renewed near the Donetsk Airport, reports GHN based on Ukrinform. Powerful salvos of the artillery or tanks are heard very intensively in the nearby districts of the city. To remind, this night as a result of shelling, automatic switching off of 124 stations took place. Residents of neighboring...
Russia's president and EU leaders have said their talks on the Ukraine crisis - also including Ukraine's president - were positive but difficult, reports GHN based on BBC. The UK, German, French and Italian leaders were expected to press Vladimir Putin to do more to end the fighting. Correspondents...
Today, the attendees of Giorgi Antsukheildze NCO Training Centre visited Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Under the NCO Command and Staff Course, 27 sergeants were given a workshop on conflictology, reports GHN based on the Ministry of Defense. The University professors delivered lectures...
Vladimir Putin has described his meeting with the Ukrainian president on Friday as "positive." The Russian president's spokesman however noted some of the meeting participants were reluctant to understand the true situation in eastern Ukraine, reports GHN based on RT. "It was good,...
Patriarch of Georgia, Archbishop of Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Metropolitan of Bitchvinta and Tskhum-Abkhazia Ilia II together with the members of delegation travelled to Cyprus, reports GHN. Before the departure Patriarch did not make comment to the journalists. As the head of foreign affairs of Patriarchy...
The head of the press service of the President of Russia Dimitri Peskov states that the participant leaders of Milan Summit "showed that they are not willing to understand what is really going on in Ukraine", reports GHN. "We regret to note that some of the participants showed that they...
South-Eastern Europe Defence Ministerial (SEDM) was held in Montenegro. Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia Mikheil Darchiashvili attended the meetings, reports GHN based on the Ministry of Defense. When delivering speech at the Ministerial, Mikheil Darchiashvili focused on the significance of strengthening...
