Interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

We visited Maya Panjikidze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia at the Ministry. We talked with her about the situation in the country and received rather interesting answers.

On June 4, at Radisson Blu Iveria Hotel, the European Parliament members summed up their 2-day visit to Georgia at the final press conference.

Details of dispersed meeting on Rustaveli Ave. on May 26

Investigation of Suliko Asatiani’s and Nika Kvintradze’s cases, who died during dispersal of the rally on Rustaveli Ave. on May 26 isn’t finished yet. Earlier the law-enforcers declared that the bodies were found on the roof of a shop on Liberty Square and the cause of death was contact with electric current. Later Oleg Zhvania, owner of the shop confessed that he was forced by police to give false testimony:

Dmitri Medvedev: Moscow Views NATO near Its Borders as Negative Fact
Anders Fogh Rasmussen: Third country has no right to interfere into Alliance’s business

‘NATO itself decides the issue of membership of a concrete country and countries themselves choose their way to NATO’ – this is how the NATO General Secretary responded to Dmitri Medvedev’s declaration. Rasmussen declared about it at a special briefing before the beginning of NATO –Georgia session in Brussels.

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili told the Palitra TV channel program Resume the Patriarch of Georgia had asked him “what could be done with the Rike Park tubes”

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said he did not understand what Giga Bokeria, Secretary of the National Security Council, was receiving his salary for.

European Parliament delegation member Krzysztof Lisek told reporters detained former Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili was in good shape

Washington Post published an article about political situation in Georgia.
"FOR MUCH of the last decade, Georgia and Ukraine stood out among ­post-Soviet nations for their pursuit of liberal democracy and integration with the West following popular uprisings against authoritarian governments.