RA National Assembly Speaker Hovik Abrahamyan on September 3 received 18 representatives of the Democratic Youth Community of Europe (DEMYC), who arrived in Armenia from 11 countries, The member of NA RPA faction, the Chairman of the RPA Youth Board Karen Avagyan also attended the meeting. DEMYC unites the youth wings of the parties of 60 countries. The Youth organization…
Georgia is coming under fire from human rights groups over the forced eviction of hundreds of people displaced by war from state-owned buildings the government hopes to privatise.
The August evictions form part of the latest attempt to tackle a massive refugee problem stemming from conflicts in the early 1990s in the rebel regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and again…
Does President Saakashvili really deserve international plaudits for his party’s decisive victory in Georgia’s elections on 30 May 2010? What Jakub Parusinski saw himself, and heard from fellow election monitors, suggests that procedural violations and deliberate fraud were more widespread and organised than first appeared
On May 30 Mikhail Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) won a decisive victory in Georgia’s first…
Leading into the office of Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, there is a room lined with more than a hundred photographs. Bill Clinton is there, and so are John McCain, Condoleezza Rice and, quite prominently, Richard Gere. Right beside the door, at center stage, there’s a shot of George W. Bush watching Saakashvili bend down on the White House…
A fake report of a Russian invasion of Georgia turned into a real international incident yesterday as the British and French ambassadors issued angry protests at being included in the spoof news report.
Denis Keefe, the British envoy to Georgia, and Eric Fournier, his French counterpart, demanded apologies from Imedi Television, which showed them making statements in its now notorious programme…
Imedi TV broadcaster provokes panic with report claiming Russian attack in progressGeorgians rally in central Tbilisi against a local television channel’s fake report of a Russian invasion which caused widespread panic. Photograph: Vano Shlamov/AFP/Getty Images
Switching on their TV sets at 8pm on Saturday, Georgians were greeted with incredible news – Russia had invaded. The pro-government Imedi TV station reported that…
The Georgian governmnet has been accused of manipulating the media, especially television news, damaging President Mikheil Saakashvili’s reputation as a democratic reformer.
The accusations from press freedom groups and the country’s opposition were made as Georgia wages a legal and public relations battle in Europe against what it says is Russian-backed censorship of one of its television channels.
While press freedom in…
In his Annual Threat Assessment to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,President Obama’s Director of National Intelligense, Dennis C.Blair, recently warned of renewed conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia over the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which Georgia claims but Russia has recongnized as independent states. What Admiral Blair did not mention is that American…
On Monday, Senator John McCain received Georgia’s highest state honor from President Mikheil Saakashvili for his show of support of Georgian sovereignty during the 2008 Russia-Georgia War—a controversial, long-standing conflict in which Senator McCain publicly appointed himself (and by virtue of his political prominence, the entire United States) a friend and partner of Georgia in the wake of what he…
On September 10, 2009 Zugdidi District Court (Judge Davit Kekenadze) sentenced Academician Vladimer Vakhania to one-year-imprisonment for preventing journalist from professional activities and to three-year-imprisonment for illegal purchase-possession of weapon; the crimes are envisaged under Article 154 Part II and Article 236 Part I of the Criminal Code of Georgia. Law enforcement officers detained Vakhania for preventing journalist from her…
