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Giorgi Tevzadze: It is still unknown whether prisoner Sakvarelidze cut off his ear or it was cut off when he was being tortured

Gela Nikoleishvili Presently the police have the function that Gestapo had in favor of Hitler’s fascist regime

For four years Saakashvili’s regime has been pompously celebrating the Police Day, May 6. We can assume that the date, which putting it mildly, is not remarkable for the absolute majority of the country’s population will be marked by “Nats” authorities with one more pompous ceremony this year…how independent our law enforcement bodies are and whether they deserve our trust or not are the issues that Georgia and World asked Gela Nikoleishvili, a lawyer and human rights advocate...

Politics

Saakashvili Leaves for U.S. with 'Stopover in Milan'

Saakashvili Leaves for U.S. with 'Stopover in Milan'

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

President Saakashvili has left for the United States during which he will also visit Chicago, which is hosting NATO summit on May 20-21, President’s spokesperson, Manana Manjgaladze, said on...

Georgia Gets No Love From State Dept

Georgia Gets No Love From State Dept

Wednesday, 09 May 2012

Georgia's NATO aspirations didn't exactly get a ringing endorsement from a State Department official at a Congressional hearing Thursday previewing next month's alliance summit in Chicago. U...

Saakashvili opponents seek fresh start for Georgia

Saakashvili opponents seek fresh start for Georgia

Wednesday, 09 May 2012

ONE RECENT Sunday on Tbilisi’s central Rustaveli Avenue, a few dozen people gathered outside Georgia’s parliament to protest against a new law.

They said it would allow landowners to do anyth...

Health certificate of Saakashvili is not kept at his administration

Health certificate of Saakashvili is not kept at his administration

Thursday, 03 May 2012

The Guria News” received only one reply to a number of letters sent to the President’s

administration. The reply says that the certificate of Saakashvili's health is not kept at the administr...

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Economy

Ivanishvili's Firm Fined with GEL 4.76m

Ivanishvili's Firm Fined with GEL 4.76m

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Management Service, one of the companies affiliated with leader of opposition coalition Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili, has been fined by the state audit agency with GEL 4.76 million (u...

A quarter of Georgia’s population are missing

A quarter of Georgia’s population are missing

Tuesday, 01 May 2012

23 per cent of Georgia’s population is away from the country, 80 per cent of which are illegal labor migrants and sole bread-winners.

These are some of the findings in a new report made by Li...

Merabishvili: “Money has no Smell, Russian Investments Welcomed”

Merabishvili: “Money has no Smell, Russian Investments Welcomed”

Monday, 30 April 2012

Despite continued security threat posed to Georgia from Moscow, investments and tourists from Russia are more than welcomed, Georgia’s Interior Minister, Vano Merabishvili, said on April 26....

Georgian Railways is to be listed on London stock exchange

Georgian Railways is to be listed on London stock exchange

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Georgian Railways is set to be listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), becoming the second Georgian companies to achieve a listing, after Bank of Georgia.

Prime Minister Nika Gilauri said ...

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Society

“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant

“We are Preparing for Massive Civil War,” Says DHS Informant

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

In a riveting interview on TruNews Radio, Wednesday, private investigator Doug Hagmann said high-level, reliable sources told him the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing ...

Finance Minister: New Parliament Construction Cost GEL 133.7m

Finance Minister: New Parliament Construction Cost GEL 133.7m

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

GEL 133.7 million (about USD 82.5 million) has been spent so far for ongoing construction of new Parliament building in Kutaisi, Georgian Finance Minister, Dimitri Gvindadze, told news agenc...

Beware PR men bearing dictators' gifts

Beware PR men bearing dictators' gifts

Wednesday, 09 May 2012

From Hungary to Kazakhstan and Putin's Russia, despots see the British as the masters of the black art of spin.

Press officers for the alarmingly rightwing Hungarian government were touring L...

Ivanishvil's TV Channel Launched

Ivanishvil's TV Channel Launched

Tuesday, 01 May 2012

A new Tbilisi-based TV channel, co-owned by leader of opposition coalition Georgian Dream Bidzina Ivanishvili’s wife, launched broadcast late on Monday evening with its main news bulletin.

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Justice

New Charity, Associated with Ivanishvili, Warned It May Breach Law

New Charity, Associated with Ivanishvili, Warned It May Breach Law

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

A new charity foundation, which has become associated with Bidzina Ivanishvili’s opposition coalition Georgian Dream, designed to, as its founders say, provide assistance, including financia...

Gela Nikoleishvili Presently the police have the function that Gestapo had in favor of Hitler’s fascist regime

Gela Nikoleishvili Presently the police have the function that Gestapo had in favor of Hitler’s fascist regime

Thursday, 03 May 2012

For four years Saakashvili’s regime has been pompously celebrating the Police Day, May 6. We can assume that the date, which putting it mildly, is not remarkable for the absolute majority of...

Gestapo methods in Georgian prisons

Gestapo methods in Georgian prisons

Friday, 27 April 2012

“Every morning, during checkups we are forced to undress and when we are naked they beat us mercilessly until they get bored. We are made stand with our hands on our heads and if somebody ge...

Giorgi Tevzadze: It is still unknown whether prisoner Sakvarelidze cut off his ear or it was cut off when he was being tortured

Giorgi Tevzadze: It is still unknown whether prisoner Sakvarelidze cut off his ear or it was cut off when he was being tortured

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Human rights advocacy organizations have been talking about unbearable conditions in Georgian Penitentiary System for a long time. Torturing and beating of prisoners took the form of an ordi...

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History


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World

A New Infrastructure for Intervention

A New Infrastructure for Intervention

Wednesday, 16 May 2012

On Monday, April 23, President Obama announced the creation of the Atrocities Prevention Board and an effort to develop government-wide strategies for finding ways to intervene before mass k...

What a Eurasian Union Means for Washington

What a Eurasian Union Means for Washington

Wednesday, 09 May 2012

Two key events, the planned withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Vladimir Putin’s impending return to the Kremlin, have reopened a long-standing debate in Russian foreign-policy ci...

Central Asia and Caucasus: Looking Back at Wikileaks Two Years On

Central Asia and Caucasus: Looking Back at Wikileaks Two Years On

Wednesday, 09 May 2012

It’s been over two years since the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks released a trove of once classified US State Department cables. According to the State Department’s former chief spokesma...

Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness

Washington Leads World Into Lawlessness

Thursday, 03 May 2012

The US government pretends to live under the rule of law, to respect human rights, and to provide freedom and democracy to citizens. Washington’s pretense and the stark reality are diametric...

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