Yuri SIMONYAN

Georgia has lost most part of its export, which was one of the main sources to fill the Georgian budget. Russia affected the weak economy of Georgia by closing the import of alcoholic drinks from Georgia. According to the official information from Russia there were pestiferous materials in the imported wine and brandy. But Moscow …

The true leader of the new Georgian opposition is well-known businessman, president of the businessmen’s union of Georgia and president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Georgia Badri Patarkatsishvili. This was the announcement made by ideologist of the “National Movement” party and vice-president of the committee on legal issues of the National Assembly of …

The Georgian opposition has finally unified. Just a couple of months ago, people didn’t think that the Georgian opposition could come together. Some Republicans didn’t hide the fact that they were a little skeptical towards the populist labor party, which, in turn, called the conservative political party an artificial laboratory, etc. All of a sudden, …

Recently, some drunken people had fought in Tsarkala. One person was killed and two of them got physical injuries. Five people are under arrest now and are suspected of murder. The neighbors from the village of the deceased wanted to punish the murderer but the police made them calm down. The police department has instituted …

The oppositional parties of Georgia were about to raise the issue of impeaching the minister of Georgian internal affairs Vano Meribashvili but later they changed their mind. Currently in such a situation of difference of parliamentary powers this can hardly reach success: the majority will not allow them to harm anyone backed by the president. …

The relations between Russia and Georgia have gone too far. These last months party members are using different sentences to describe their relations, like: “Critical situation”, “On the edge of cold war”, “It is impossible to picture a worse situation”, etc. In several days it turned out that it was wrong: the relations between Russia …

Things are not looking too good for the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone. On Sunday, Osetians and Russian peacekeepers had formed a blockade on the 100 “blue helmets” rotation of Georgia. In response to that, Georgian peacekeepers have formed a blockade on Tskhinvali and have closed all roads. A couple of days before that, the Georgian parliament …

Last week, Georgia’s special services found out the conspiracy against Mikhail Sahakashvili. In the Karelian region, located near the Georgian-Osetian conflict zone, they found an “Igla” zenith rocket missile. First, they said that they had found the missile hung from a tree and that it was “aimed towards president Sahakashvili’s aircraft”. Then they announced that …

If the energetic crisis in Georgia was aimed purposely towards president Mikhail Sahakashvili and his administration, then we can say that the people who did this got what they wanted. The president’s reputation has gone down and it had already been going down recently. The next step taken by the president, which he took by …

Any international specialist who has been following up on the maintenance of democratic values in the former Soviet Georgia knows that the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were doing just fine back then. There are many NGOs in Georgia and there are many involved in solving issues having to do with freedom of speech. This refers to …