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Parliament’s Weekly Review. July 16-21, 2001
Giorgi Baramidze: Formal Status Should Be Given to the Public Detached Force Kist and Georgian population of the Pankisi Valley…
Read More »Weekly Review of the Parliamentary Committees’ Sessions. July 16-23,2001
Committee of Self-Governance and Regional Policy On July 17th, the Committee held a meeting with the representatives of the NGOs,…
Read More »Accusation: Government of Adjara Autonomous Republic Is Allied with Self-Declared Rep. of Abkhazia
Today’s press covers the conflict created between deputies of Abkhazia and Adjara Autonomous Republics. Jemal Gogitidze, leader of the fraction…
Read More »Georgian Students are Getting United Against Corruption
Georgian students have expressed their will to fight against corruption, which has become quite common in the country in last…
Read More »Police Kicks Homeless People Out of the Railway Station
“The Resonance” describes the conditions existing at central railway station in Tbilisi, which “has been associated with homeless people, beggars…
Read More »Both Georgians and Kists Blame the Law Enforcement Bodies
Today’s Georgian press still covers the situation existing in the Pankisi Valley (see 16.07.01 and 18.07.01 Georgian Meida Digest). “The…
Read More »“Get the Russian Military Forces out of Georgia”
The official reason for holding a special session planned for today was the issue of Russian military bases and abrogation…
Read More »The Government Cannot Control the State; Population Is Replacing the Government
‘It may be said without any exaggeration that war is about to explode not only in Kakheti (western part of…
Read More »Review of the Parliament’s Bureau Session. July 17, 2001
During its extraordinary session, which starts on July 18th, the Parliament will not discuss the bill on “Local Self-Governance and…
Read More »Weekly Review of the Parliamentary Committees’ Sessions. July 9-15 2001
Committee of Self-Governance and Regional Policy“One meeting with the Head of President’s Regional Management Service Badri Khatidze has been much…
Read More »A Lawyer Claims that the Police Has Beaten Him Up
Three policemen beat Ledi Tukvadze, an advocate, who wanted to visit a person suspected in burglary in Terjola (region in…
Read More »The IMF Might Start Talking About Sequestering the Budget
“The Dilis Gazeti” writes about the visit of the International Monetary Fund mission to Georgia planned for today. The target…
Read More »Parliamentary Bargain Will Be Over Soon
Political bargain concerning the Cabinet of Ministers lasting for three months is almost over. At a special session, planned to…
Read More »Tension in the Pankisi Valley Has Been Provoked by Russia
Today’s press pays special attention to the tensed situation still existing in the Pankisi Valley. `Even though Eduard Shevardnadze the…
Read More »Weekly Review of Ministries’ Activities. July 7-14, 2001
Ministry of FinancesLast week the Ministry of Finances, together with President and ‘economic team’ of the Government tried to prove…
Read More »Double Citizenship – Useful or Dangerous
The establishment of visa regime between Russia and Georgia has caused problems to Georgian citizens working in different cities of…
Read More »Russia Wants to Create Disorder in Georgia
Unidentified people kidnapped Mamuka Arabuli, State Guard Service employee, in the Pankisi Valley yesterday morning. Embarrassed Kakheti (eastern Georgia) inhabitants…
Read More »The AES-TELASI Does Not Want to Be Responsible for Around the Clock Electricity
Formation of the agreement planned to be made between the AES-TELASI and customers failed again yesterday. As it occurs, the…
Read More »Financial Policy of the Defense Minister of Georgia Is Disliked
Georgian army is in awful state. The only change, which has happened since the appointment of Davit Tevzadze on the…
Read More »The Number of Poor People Is Increasing in Georgia
State Department of Statistics of Georgia has been implementing the project of poverty monitoring in the country. The study has…
Read More »Review of Government Meeting. Jule 11, 2001
Main topic of the Government Meeting on July 11 was the issue of salaries in the budget sector. Minister of…
Read More »Weekly Review of Ministries’ Activities. June 30 – July 7, 2001
MINISTRY OF INTERNAL AFFAIRSLast week Ministry started special operations in connection with frequent kidnappings on whole territory of the country. However…
Read More »Parliament’s Weekly Review. July 2-8 2001
Russia Violated International ObligationsOn June 2nd, Speaker of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania held a briefing dedicated to the failure of…
Read More »Ilia’s Stolen Bust Was Returned to its Place
Police has returned busts of Ilia Chavchavadze (XIX century’s poet and writer) and Giorgi Chubinishvili (famous Georgian scholar), stolen from…
Read More »Several Parliamentarians are Lobbying Illegal Timber Business
Illegal cut of forests in Georgia reached a catastrophic scale. As “Dilis Gazeti” writes “Approach to thetimber business depends on…
Read More »“Citizens’ Union Intentionally Let Russian Spies To Georgia”
Today’s “Akhali Taoba” returns once again to divulged story of Russian image-maker team invited by the “Citizens’ Union” to Georgia…
Read More »Review of the Parliament’s Bureau Session. July 3rd, 2001
On July 3rd expanded session of the Parliament’s Bureau discussed fulfillment of the budget for the first half of year…
Read More »“Abashidze Will Soon Write His Own Anthem and Draw State Symbol”
Decision of the Supreme Council of Adjarian Autonomous Republic on July 7th did irritate mass media, but not the central…
Read More »Two-Chamber Parliament in Adjaria – A Separatism?
Supreme Council of Adjarian Autonomous Republic has been transformed into the parliament. As “Rezonansi” newspaper writes, many politicians in Tbilisi…
Read More »President’s Briefing. Monday, July 9, 2001
During his traditional Monday briefing President Shevardnadze talked about the main issues of the last week. Journalists expressed special interest…
Read More »Georgian newspapers publish only “anomaly” to invoke an interest in readers
David Gogichaishvili, One of the representatives of contemporary Georgian show business, showman of a popular TV program. Previously popular DJ…
Read More »Another Provocation from the Russian Press
`The Resonance` published an article appeared in `Novoe Izvestia`, a Russian newspaper, with the headline `Dead End in Georgian` (author…
Read More »The Parliamentary and Non-Parliamentary Opposition Got United
Negotiations between the ruling party and the opposition concerning the electoral commission have reached a dead end. Jemal Gogitidze, leader…
Read More »Protest in Front of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi is Being Continued
Russia did not fulfill the Istanbul agreement and did not leave the Gudauta military base (on the territory of Abkhazia,…
Read More »Debts Are Being Covered
According to official information, budget of the month of June has been completed. As a result it will not be…
Read More »Father of the Parliamentary Vice-Speaker Has Been Beat Up
65-year-old Nugzar Tsereteli, father of Gigi Tsereteli, parliamentary vice-speaker, was beat up by strangers in front of his flat at…
Read More »Junk Business Should Be Prohibited
Bronze busts of Ilia Chavchavadze and Giorgi Chubinishvili (famous public figures) that weighed 150 kilograms were stolen from the Tbilisi…
Read More »Local Self-governance or just Governance?
In the nearest days Georgian Parliament will discuss the bill of Amendments to the Law on Local Governance and Self…
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