A memorandum of understanding was signed between the Caucasus International University and Caucasus Studies Institute at the University of Tehran (Islamic Republic of Iran) in early November. The memorandum envisages active scientific-analytical cooperation between the parties, joint research, conferences, lectures and exchange programs. On ...

Georgian defense minister Levan Izoria announced that the Javelin US anti-tank missiles have already been delivered to Georgia, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier the US Department of State approved the delivery of such missile systems to Georgia. “The first stage of the acquisition of the Javelin systems has been successfully completed. The systems ...

Georgian Foreign Minister Mikheil Janelidze who was paying an official visit to Turkey on January 10 met with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and addressed the annual conference of Turkish diplomats. During the meeting with President Erdoğan, Janelidze offered ...

The Trump Organization, Donald Trump’s property development company, and Silk Road Group (SRG), Trump Tower Batumi’s Georgian developer, issued a joint statement on January 6, announcing their decision to formally end the development of Trump Tower Batumi, a 47-storey luxury residential condominium in Black Sea resort town of Batumi, Georgia....

Differences over legal status thwarted attempts to temporarily reopen road link to Russia via breakaway South Ossetia upon Armenia’s request, Georgia’s PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili said on Friday. 800-meter long section of the road in the Dariali gorge in an immediate vicinity of the Kazbegi-Zemo Larsi border-crossing point in the northern ...

Annual military exercises, Noble Partner, will be held on May 11-26 at the Vaziani training area, east of Tbilisi, with the participation of 500 Georgian, 650 U.S. and 150 United Kingdom service members. U.S. army’s M1A2 Abrams main battle tanks were ferried from Bulgaria across the Black Sea to Georgia for the first time for the purpose of the ...

 Georgia is clearly the closest US ally in the South Caucasus, moving in lockstep with American interests on just about every foreign policy issue – except one: Iran. Not wanting to become embroiled in a potential regional conflict, officials in Tbilisi are trying to finesse relations with Tehran, while staying in Washington’s good ...

Georgian soldiers from the ۴۲nd light infantry battalion of the ۴th Brigade run during a demonstration for the press at Vaziani training area outside Tbilisi during the Agile Spirit ۲۰۱۱ joint trainings with the U.S. Marines on July ۲۲, ۲۰۱۱. Second drills in series of annual Agile Spirit exercises were launched at Vaziani on March ۱۰, ۲۰۱۲. Photo:...

•Amendments to narrow circle of entities falling under the law’s regulations; •Wording “directly or indirectly related” to be removed; •Fines imposed by the state audit agency will be reduced; •۰.۲% of GDP cap on donations/spending to be amended; •Courts to have more say over state audit agency’s decisions;...

Russia’s planned military exercises this fall was timed deliberately to coincide with Georgia’s parliamentary elections, scheduled for October, President Saakashvili said on March ۳۱. “It is not a coincidence that our neighbor scheduled its large-scale military exercises for second half of September, just several days before elections ...

Saakashvili said that his recent trip to the U.S. during which he met with President Obama was “a strategic breakthrough” for Georgia as it resulted into prospect of free trade treaty with the U.S. and Washington’s assistance to increase Georgia’s self-defense capabilities. “The most important about this visit was that for us ...

The so-called presidential elections held in the Tskhinvali region cannot be considered legitimate according to international norms, Georgian Parliament Speaker David Bakradze said at a meeting of the Bureau on Tuesday. He said there has been no precedent in the world which recognised the legitimacy of the elections against a backdrop of ethnic cleansing....

Journalist Levon Galustyan has become the third Armenian member of the parliament of Abkhazia, Khachik Minosyan, Chairman of the Union of Abkhazia Armenians, told Armenian News-NEWS.am. “The two Armenian candidates—Galust Trapizonyan and Levon Galustyan—who ran in Electoral District No. ۲۰, are educated men whom the Armenian people ...

After U.S. Republican Senator Richard Lugar introduced the NATO Enlargement Bill, Republican Congressman Mike Turner followed suit by introducing a companion bill in the House, designed to encourage further expansion of the Alliance. The bill, NATO Enhancement Act of ۲۰۱۲, calls on President Obama to “lead NATO efforts” at the Chicago Summit ...

Voters in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia will go to polls on March ۲۵ to elect new leader – a third attempt since November, when the race went into runoff, won by an opposition candidate Alla Jioyeva, but its results were annulled prompting street protests. None of the key former candidates – Alla Jioyeva and Anatoly ...

A three-day ministerial on transport issues has kicked off in Batumi today. As Georgian Economic Development Ministry told Trend, the ministerial is attended by Georgian Economy Minister Vera Kobalia, Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister of Ukraine Borys Kolesnikov, Transport and Communications Minister of Lithuania Eligijus Masiulis, ...

Agile Spirit ۲۰۱۲ joint military exercises of Georgian troops and U.S. Marines at the Vaziani military base outside Tbilisi involved training on live-fire ranges, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, cordon and search, combat lifesaving skills, convoy operations and tactics in countering improvised explosive devices. Agile Spirit exercises has become ...

Talk of civil war, allegations about paramilitary groups and “threatening” locals in western region of Samegrelo with scenarios of a war-battered Syrian city of Homs is “immoral” and “idiocy”, President Saakashvili said on March ۱۷. Though he did not mention anyone by name, Saakashvili was obviously referring to remarks of Irakli ...

The state audit agency, Chamber of Control, is in charge of monitoring party funding. Photo: Chamber of Control’s website. The ruling party, United National Movement (UNM), received total of GEL ۱.۷۶ million in donations last year, according to a financial declaration submitted to the state audit agency under the funding disclosure requirements ...

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