Analytics

Authorities leave the middle opposition at the bottom of the ladder 2009-11-20 17:31 The Georgian politics has long been developing on the basis of paradoxes that generally lead to conflicts. At present, another turn of confrontation is coming against the background of political lull. Unlike in spring, the opposition is calling upon the ruling majority to get down to the negotiating table to reform the electoral code and is already accusing the authorities of developing another scheme of fixing the elections.

Children Are Children Even in Ossetia 2009-11-19 18:44 Some Georgian teenagers will have to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Ossetian prison. Unless the international community that has stood up staunchly for them will receive a rebate. The unfairness of foreign politicians rouses indignation in Ossetian mothers. The youngest of the children kidnapped by Georgians a year ago was just 15 years old, but that crime did not draw any response of the UN, PACE and other structures of the kind. It seems that Western compassion is somewhat selective.

Parliament Can Lose Opposition Again 2009-11-18 16:33 Georgian parliamentarians cannot get through the history. The Parliament Committee for the Investigation of the Death of the First Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia has come to a dead-lock right after starting its activity. A deputy of the party in power Bejan Khuridze said he would stop his work if the committee was not given the status of a court of inquiry. A son of the first president Konstantin Gamsakhurdia filed the same claim before.

Bringing to justice for scandal around the Georgian special services 2009-11-17 23:42 The person suspected of a leakage of information about an unsuccessful provocative act made by the Georgian special services is facing a legal procedure. The point at issue is the staged shooting at Lekh Kachinski and Mikhail Saakashvili near the border of South Ossetia last November. The Prosecutor’s Office believes that the secret information was disclosed to the media by former Head of the Polish President’s Administration Peter Kovnatski (see photo).

Gocha Dzasokhov: we must show free will for the sake of children 2009-11-16 17:44 The story with the Georgian teenagers arrested by the law-enforcement authorities of South Ossetia is growing in details. As the GeorgiaTimes correspondent was told by the disgraced Georgian businessman with the Ossetian origin Gocha Dzasokhov, who is now heading the World Assembly of Peoples of Georgia, he started negotiating the matter with the South-Ossetian authorities.

Debating policy: one more trial 2009-11-13 14:13 President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili is making his best to use the political lull to soften the current situation. The day before, he ordered the minister of education and minister of health to familiarize themselves with the parliamentary opposition's initiatives. As to the non-parliamentary opposition, its radical wing is about to start a new turn of struggle.

Quests of the Georgian politics 2009-11-12 15:55 The recently started work of the committee for investigation of death of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia has stuck. One of its representatives stated that the committee should be granted the status of an investigative agency; otherwise, he will step down from office. The status would enable to interrogate the two former State Security Ministers Igor Giorgadze and Shota Kviraya.

Political phobias of the Georgian establishment 2009-11-11 15:09 Georgia is known for its tendency to make public scandals. Another scandal was broken out against the background of political lull. This time, it was an informational scandal. Former Head of Adzharia Aslan Abashidze accused the Ukrainian media of provocation: they have published an interview that was never taken.

Opposition threatens to sue Saakashvili again 2009-11-11 14:08 Georgians are an artistic and inventive nation. This is hard to deny. But now this creative potential is not really in great demand. Creativity goes to politics where competition is high. Sometimes Europe and the USA are literally shocked by the "creativity" of Georgian politicians. Recently the Labor Party called on the UN to investigate the activities of the country's leader Mikheil Nikolayevich. GeorgiaTimes correspondent was trying to understand how real it is.

Teenagers in the war 2009-11-10 10:00 Georgia is appealing to the international community with a request to bring back its "children stolen by Russia". Naturally, their pleas do not say anything about the Georgian teenagers (see photo) strolling along the streets of Tskhinval weapon in hand. The Ossetian authorities have set up pre-trial restrictions in respect of the teenagers in the form of detention in custody. Is this a cruel step? Well, seems to be no crueler than using these boys for arms traffic and making fools of them with the help of nationalistic propaganda.