Georgian media

civil.ge:UNHCR Concerned over IDPs Eviction Process

UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on August 24, that “together with the international community” it was “concerned that recent evictions of internally displaced people, living in collective centres and shelters in Tbilisi, have not been undertaken with the necessary transparency or circulation of information.”

In July and August police evicted hundreds of IDPs from several state-owned buildings in Tbilisi - the…


InterPressNews:NATO Considers Imedi’s Special Report Unwise and Unhelpful

apaturaiNATO considers that ‘Simulated Chronicle’ was unhelpful. As Ria Novosti reports, NATO spokesperson James Appathurai stated about it.

‘This TV report is not regarded positive by NATO,’ Appaturai stated.
NATO spokesperson made this statement before meeting between President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Meeting is scheduled to be held in Brussels in the frameworks of convention of…


PIRVELI:Project of scheduled “primary” initiated by “Conservators” to be prepared

kaxa-kukavaProject of scheduled “primary” initiated by “Conservators” has prepared, –Kakha Kukava, one of leader of “Conservators” told Pirweli. He said that local elections conducted for spring will be provided according to the draft. The project had been adopted at WG sitting for primary preparation. Other details shall be announced later. “Primary” will be provided presumably late February or early March.


IPN.GE:Zviad Dzidziguri to be Conservatives’ Candidate for Tbilisi Mayer in Primary

zviadi01A candidate of the Conservative Party for Tbilsi Mayer in primary will be Zviad Dzidziguri, the Chairman of the Party.
Primary is a very serious project and Conservatives will do their best to implement the project, - Zviad Dzidziguri stated at a meeting held at the Chess Palace today.
A single opposition candidate will be revealed as a result of primary who…


Civil.ge: Conservative Party Says its Office in Telavi ‘Raided’

Opposition Conservative Party said its local office in the town of Telavi in eastern region of Kakheti was “raided” and several opposition activists beaten by the police on September 9, when President Saakashvili was visiting the town.

A local radio station, Hereti, reported that three activists from the Conservative Party – Giorgi Mosiashvili, Erekle Tsotsanidze and Aleko Taliuri and a local…


humanrights.ge:Attack on Media

დარბევაYesterday, as a result of the incident near the Tbilisi Police Main Department journalists also were injured alongside the demonstrators. The victimized media-representatives claim that law enforcers targeted on journalists and hunted on them with particular severity in order to destroy the video and photo recordings of the dispersal. Later, when the Ministry of Internal Affairs returned the cameras all…


Civil.ge:MIA Admits Firing Projectiles in May 6 Clash

fn-303After an initial rejection, the Interior Ministry has acknowledged firing projectiles to protesters in a confrontation outside the Tbilisi police headquarters on May 6.

Dozens of protesters, including several opposition leaders (most of them hit into the head), were injured in the incident and two protesters who were hit by projectiles had lost sight in one eye.

Projectiles, which were found at…


IPN:Zviad Dzidziguri Calls MoD to Stop Politicization of Georgian Army

ზვიად ძიძიგურიZviad Dzidziguri, the leader of ‘Conservative Party’, calls MoD to stop politicization of Georgian army.

As Zviad Dzidziguri declared at the rally held by MoD today, ‘National Movement ‘attempts to convert Georgian army into the instrument of executing political wills of Georgian president and when ‘National Movement’ fails such attempts , it addresses to incidents like ‘Mukhrovani Mutiny’.

‘Destroying Georgian army is…


Civil.ge:Opposition Blocking Two Key Roads in Tbilisi

gzaOpposition leaders and activists blocked the capital city’s two key roads on both banks of Mtkvari (Kura) River in protest against, what the opposition said was, “an illegal seizure” of cars belonging to its activists and supporters.

The blocking of the traffic lasted for over an hour. There were several cases of verbal argument between some opposition activists, including Davit Gamkrelidze,…


IPN.GE: Opposition Prepares for new wave of Protest Actions

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Opposition is getting ready for the second wave of protest actions, - conservative Zviad Dzidziguri made announcement about it today.
Dzidziguri states that information meeting will be held at15:00 in front of parliament tomorrow and future plans of opposition will be known on this action.
He emphasized that opposition will act following law and constitution, instead of the government’s attempt to involve…