The Week in Brief
Friday, June 27
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with the leader of breakaway Abkhazia as Georgia’s president tried to whip up foreign support to challenge Russia’s role in the separatist region.
After meeting with Georgia’s president, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Georgia will need to make progress with its separatist conflicts before it can fulfill hopes of NATO membership, but shared Georgian concern over Russian moves in Abkhazia.
Abkhaz separatist officials will ask the Russian government to help patrol its ‘sea borders,’ a move Tbilisi said would be unjustified and viewed as armed aggression.
Television station Mze TV is ending its news broadcasts, further narrowing the field of national news broadcasters.
An explosion near posh Shardeni Street destroyed the car of an investment fund manager who worked for Badri Patarkatsishvili, the late Georgian billionaire and government foe. The blast, which police are treating as a criminal attack, caused no injuries.
Female inmates who ended a hunger strike after intervention from Georgia’s spiritual leader say they will restart the protest this week unless the president’s administration reviews their cases.
After meeting with Georgia’s president, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Georgia will need to make progress with its separatist conflicts before it can fulfill hopes of NATO membership, but shared Georgian concern over Russian moves in Abkhazia.
Abkhaz separatist officials will ask the Russian government to help patrol its ‘sea borders,’ a move Tbilisi said would be unjustified and viewed as armed aggression.
Television station Mze TV is ending its news broadcasts, further narrowing the field of national news broadcasters.
An explosion near posh Shardeni Street destroyed the car of an investment fund manager who worked for Badri Patarkatsishvili, the late Georgian billionaire and government foe. The blast, which police are treating as a criminal attack, caused no injuries.
Female inmates who ended a hunger strike after intervention from Georgia’s spiritual leader say they will restart the protest this week unless the president’s administration reviews their cases.