Prime Minister Vlad Filat has met heads of foreign state-run news agencies, visiting Chisinau on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the state news agency MOLDPRES. Filat welcomed them to Chisinau and voiced hope that the visit would be an opportunity for them to make a good impression about Moldova,...
South Ossetia puppet regime has released three citizens of Georgia, who spent a whole week in the captivity. One of the former hostages, Nugzar Kharatov says that she often visits her mother who lives beyond the boundary line, in the village of Tighvi. Another former hostage, shepherd says he...
Three people died and nine others were wounded in a blast near a bus carrying soldiers in Istanbul, Turkey today. One of the three victims was a child; some of the soldiers had family members on the bus. The explosion took place when the vehicle was passing through the Halkali district of the city, near...
A coordinating meeting of donors was held in the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources today. Minister Goga Khachidze hosted the ambassadors from over twenty various diplomatic missions in Georgia and the representatives of different international organizations. The Minister introduced the achievements...
A 27-year-old man was wounded in Tbilisi late last night. The incident occurred in the Avlabari district yesterday. The young actor of the Pantomime theatre Amiran Shalikashvili was operated on his head and breast. The man had penetrating injuries with a knife in his breast and the top of the head. The...
MP from the Akhmeta district is expected to arrive in the Pankisi Valley later today to view the damage inflicted to the area by the last few days` disaster. Heavy rains have damaged the region leaving over one hundred families homeless. The rescuers and the fire brigades are working to pump waters out...
The remote resort of Shovi, Racha Region, is still isolated from the rest of the Georgia`s regions. The mud stream has collapsed a bridge connecting the village of Glola to the Oni Region. Nine cottages of a tourist base have been completely ruined, eight - damaged. Two other cottages also face danger...
Heavy rains inflicted serious damage on Pankisi Gorge on Saturday night. Overflowing rivers burst banks and flooded four villages in Pankisi district. Poultry, sheep and goats were killed. Electric transmission lines and roads were damaged. Patrol police were mobilised at the scene at midnight. The...
Poland votes for a new president today an election called following the death of President Lech Kaczynski and most of the country's political and military elite in a plane crash in Russia in April. Billed as the strangest election in Poland`s 21-year post-communist history, it was called after...
Georgian archaeologists suppose they have discovered the tomb of Tsotne Dadiani, Georgian nobleman of whom the medieval Georgian Chronicles relate a story of how Tsotne's self-sacrificing move saved his associates from the Mongol captivity and imminent death, and which made him into one of the most...
Ongoing reforms in the Georgia`s defence field will assist the country`s defence capabilities, Robert Simmons said. The NATO Secretary General`s Special Representative fro the South Caucasus is taking part in the Georgian Defence Conference in Batumi town of seaside Adjara Region. Experts are discussing...
Car accident occurred Friday close to Akhlagori district of occupied South Ossetia Region. Driver of a truck heading from Armenia to Georgia`s seaside town Batumi fell asleep and the car skid off the road. Three people were driving on the truck. They were slightly injured. They were provided with...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev delivered a speech at an official opening ceremony of the 14th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. Many Russian and foreign participants in the forum held several round-table meetings on Thursday. On Friday, they met for a general plenary...
Ukraine and Lithuania will cooperate within the Eastern Partnership, introducing specific bilateral and multilateral projects, reads the Joint Statement issued by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Kostiantyn Hryshchenko and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania Audronius Azubalis...
A wall of two-storey block of apartments collapsed Friday in the Old Tbilisi district. The building was abandoned and therefore no one was affected by the collapse. Representatives of the office of emergencies of the local municipality arrived at the scene. They suggested owners of the adjacent block...
