Topic: Mikhail Saakashvili
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is quitting business to enter politics, says he will win next year's parliamentary election and is ready to repair ties with Russia that were damaged by the war in 2008.Ivanishvili, whose fortune is ...
Ex-Soviet Georgia may not appear the most glamorous destination, but officials hope that pop stars like Sting, Enrique Iglesias and Macy Gray can add showbiz chic to their bid to attract tourists.Although critics have mocked efforts to use a series of ...
A parade of topless women flashed the Georgian Embassy in the Ukraine Monday to protest the arrests of three photojournalists.. . The nude...
Georgia on Thursday arrested the personal photographer of President Mikheil Saakashvili and three other photojournalists for allegedly spying for a foreign country, the interior ministry said.Officials did not name the country involved but Georgia's pro-Western administration has repeatedly accused arch ...
TBILISI (Reuters) - The personal photographer of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and three other photojournalists were arrested Thursday and accused of spying for a foreign country.The arrests appeared to be the latest targeting what Georgia's powerful Interior Ministry says are Russian ...
TBILISI (Reuters) - Police in Georgia arrested five photojournalists overnight including the personal photographer of President Mikheil Saakashvili, and relatives said they were being held by the counter-intelligence service.Zurab Kurtsikidze, a photographer for the European Pressphoto Agency, Shakh Aivazov of The Associated ...
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's 15-year-old son on Tuesday joined his father as a global leader -- by claiming the world record for speed typing on an iPad.Eduard Saakashvili achieved a world record for typing the English alphabet on an iPad in ...
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's parliament Friday increased restrictions on public protests in response to opposition rallies in May in which two people died.Two people -- a policeman and a demonstrator -- were killed during protests in May when protestors demanded the resignation of ...
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian riot police on Thursday ended five days of demonstrations against President Mikheil Saakashvili, who blamed Russia for the protests, and two people were hit and killed by cars leaving the scene of the clashes.Thousands of riot police used ...
Officials in ex-Soviet Georgia said two people died after riot police ended five days of opposition protests aimed at ousting Western-backed President Mikheil Saakashvili early Thursday.A policeman and a former officer were hit by a car allegedly carrying a protest organiser ...