Yuri SIMONYAN

Selling the gas pipeline is once again in the center of attention in Georgia. It seems as though there will be certain steps taken after the discussions and that may cause some problems between Georgia and the main sponsor for the gas pipeline -the U.S. Last year in Washington, the U.S. granted Tbilisi approximately 300 …

In Georgia these days are not holidays for the Georgian Ministry of Justice, police and prisoners. It has been a week since the riots started in the jails of Georgia. These kinds of scenes could be only seen on TV, in Western programs on prisons. This is where the prisoners as a sign of protest …

The Russian-Georgian business conference which took place last week in Tbilisi was a pretty important event and effective. The conference was based on throwing blame on one another but was important for international relations which are in a stage of crisis. But it turned out that the political parties are not creating problems for Russia …

Armenian-Georgian relations are not going so well. The debate on the churches still seems to be in the center of attention. During a conference on religion held recently in Tbilisi, the representative of the Armenian diocese raised the issue of providing the Georgia’s Armenian church with a legal status and spoke about the privatization of …

The reforms in the pensions of Georgia have heated things up and deputies on both sides are trying to prove that they are right by fighting against each other. At first, ideologist for the “National United Movement” Giga Bokeria representing the authorities and one of the leaders of the “Democratic Front” oppositionist political party Koba …

Last week Georgia celebrated the second anniversary of the revolution. But it was not so easy for them to do that because Russia increased the prices for gasoline (up to 110 dollars for 1000 cm). Last week oppositionist David Berdzenashvili (head of “Republican” party) spoke about dropping their membership from CIS countries, because CIS didn’t …

Today, Georgia will celebrate the second anniversary of the “Revolution of Roses”. Mikhayil Sahakashvili has invited presidents from Ukraine, Estonia, Rumania, and Moldova to Georgia. Russian president Vladimir Putin was the only president that rejected the invitation, even though Sahakashvili had personally invited him by telephone. There is no official announcement made about the decision …

Georgian ex minister of foreign affairs Salome Zurabishvili, who has been involved in opposition since he left his position, made the first public meeting with his followers on Saturday. Several hundreds of people led by Salome Zurashvili walked on the streets of Tbilisi up to the building of parliament, where the ex minister put flowers …

The US Department of the State has approved the the Program that Georgia suggested for regulation of the conflict of Georgia and Abkhazia. In fact the US has agreed to participate in the regulation process. It is written in that document that constructive dialogue is the only way of fair regulation of this conflict. It …

The Georgian authorities continue adding the list of oppositionists through their activities. This time, the target for authorities and defender of the oppositionists is the most respected and successful king David Shinarar (constructor). Better yet, his huge statue which was placed in the Republic Square of Tbilisi next to the “Iveria” hotel a couple of …