U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev say they have succeeded in resetting their countries` relationship, which had drifted in recent years. The two leaders discussed trade and security at the White House Thursday. Presidents Obama and Medvedev say the United States and...
Stalin`s monument in the centre of the native city of the Soviet leader has been dismantled late last night. The police was protecting the central square of the city during three ours, while the workers were dismantling the monument. The process ended without incidents. The locals were watching...
The Georgian Parliamentary Branch Economy and Regional Committees will discuss new Tax Code of Georgia today. According to the new draft-law, entrepreneurs, whose annual turnover does not exceed 30 thousand GE, will not have to pay taxes. Accounting procedures will be facilitated for those, whose...
The oppositional political coalition National Council will continue its future activities having only two parties of Conservatives and People's Party as members. The third party affiliated with the coalition before - "Movement for Fair Georgia" headed by Zurab Noghaideli former Georgian...
Labour Party leaders say the abuse of religious feelings should be punished demanding amendments to the criminal code of Georgia, which will define the measures of the punishment. Ioseb Shatberashvili of the party briefed today and said the primary punishment for abusing religious feelings should...
Officials, cabinet members, present and former MPs participated in a festive parliament meeting dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Sovereignty, held at the Chisinau-based National Theatre of Opera and Ballet today. The meeting was headed by acting President Mihai...
Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze has commented on the decision of the breakaway Abkhazia to pull out from the international negotiations held in Geneva traditionally since the August War ceasefire agreement. Minister said the puppet regime acted like puppets and only voiced the decisions by...
Welsh-born lawyer Julia Gillard became Australia's first woman prime minister Thursday after the once hugely popular Kevin Rudd fell to a party coup less than three years after taking office. The tough, flame-haired Gillard was elected unopposed in a shock Labor Party ballot called just hours...
Nikoloz Gilauri, Prime Minister will leave the Office of Prime Minister tomorrow, he will return to the Finance Ministry. Dimitry Shashkin will take the post of Prime Minister after Zurab Jzvania, Zurab Noghaideli, Vladimer Gurgenidze, Grigol Mgaloblishvili and Nikoloz Gilauri. We can not say Shashkin...
Azerbaijan is one of the most important countries to supply Nabucco pipeline with gas, said Managing Director of the Nabucco Gas Pipeline International GmbH Reinhard Mitschek at a briefing held today. He stressed "Nabucco offers unique opportunity for Azeri gas to reach European markets. And...
There has been no confirmation from Gazprom yet Belarus has settled its gas debt. Prime-Tass quotes Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov as saying the gas giant has not yet received the transfer from Belarus. Earlier, Belarussia's First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said that Belarus...
A Canada earthquake shook Toronto and Ottawa at approximately 1:45 p.m. Eastern Time today, June 23, 2010. The USGS reports the quake had a magnitude of 5.0. Numerous reports flooded Twitter, including from the National Post in Toronto, which tweeted about heavy shaking to its building about 30 seconds...
Abkhaz occupants have killed the second member of the family of Anjaparidze. They detained three brothers of the family forcing them to claim responsibility for the murder of the village Reti governor and killed one yesterday. Today, they tortured another brother in the Gali militia. The cousin...
Mikheil Shpindeleger, Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is paying a two-day visit to Georgia. Within the framework of the visit, Shpindeleger will hold meetings with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Prime Minister Nika Gilauri, Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze, and State Minister for Reintegration...
The U.S. included the notorious leader of Chechen militants, Doku Umarov, on its list of terrorists, the U.S. Department of State said on Thursday. "The Secretary of State has designated Caucasus Emirates leader Doku Umarov under Presidential Executive Order 13224, which targets terrorists and...
