Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Georgia Irine Kurdadze and United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative in Georgia Jamie McGoldrick met the directors of professional education institutions and present them 750 text-books. The meeting was attended by the representatives of European Union and UNDP.

Within the presidental program the Safe School, surveillance systems were installed in more than 20 public schools of Tbilisi. The process of installing is underway at other public schools of the capital and the cities of Kutaisi and Batumi.

The refusal of the prime minister of Abkhazian puppet regime Sergey Shamba to approve the draft law proposed by the Kremlin has irked Russian authorities. The draft law proposed legalization of property to Russian citizens in Abkhazia.

`Abkhaz veterans` urge the leader of the Abkhazian puppet regime, Sergey Bagapsh to demand detention and extradition of Tengiz Kitovani, retired military commander of Georgia to `Abkhazian justice`.

One wing of a house in the Gurjaani district, Kakheti Region, ruined in the last night wind. Five people, children among them, were inside the building, when its part began to shake and collapsed, but luckily, no one was injured.

Georgian national basketball team has left for Portugal on Tuesday. On August 26, the sportsmen will play the European Championship 2011 qualifying game with the Portuguese team in the city of Guimarães.

22-year-old Mexican Jimena Navarrette has been crowned in Las Vegas yesterday, where the Miss Universe 2010 contest was held.

Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili attended the presentation of the Batumi Boulevard development project in Batumi today. The six kilometres-long section of the boulevard will be prolonged with another 6-kilometre section.

The officers of the third Unit of Vake-Saburtalo Police Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia as a result of the operative-searching and investigative activities detained Giorgi Bogveradze, Nika Abramishvili and Tamaz Bakhtadze , who on August 18, 2010...

Georgian Labour Party accuses the deputy chief prosecutor of Georgia of wrongdoings and calls upon diplomatic missions in Georgia to block issuing visas to Davit Chkhatarashvili.

The members of the youth wing of the France`s ruling Party, the Rightist National Party of France, are holding meetings in Tbilisi. The delegation of eight young politicians from France, one of which is of Georgian origin, arrived...

Yet another fact of human kidnapping has been reported from the occupied Abkhazia, Georgia. Reportedly, the gang of five gunmen assaulted the family of Goneli Kvirvelia, beat and robbed them.

Georgian parliament has joined the the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism. August 23 is the European commemoration day in memory of the victims of the totalitarian ideologies of Stalinism and National Socialism.

`Georgia will not begin relations with Russia from a new page - Parliament Speaker Davit Bakradze announced in the interview with the Russian online newspaper Vremia Novostey. Davit Bakradze said Georgia was prepared to solve the problems in relations with Russia via dialogue...

Georgian citizens who reside abroad will be able to take new biometric passports online. The novelty has been announced by the public register agency today.

School year will begin on September 15 every year - Minister of Education and Science, Dimitri Shashkini announced at the briefing today. Minister said the schools will no longer be authorized to set the date of school year beginning anymore.

Svaneti Region of Georgia hosts World Music Festival. The five-day event opened today in Mestia. Various artists (musicians and photographers) from different countries, such as, Armenia (Artak Nersisyan Group), Turkey (Bayar Shahin ), Estonia (Musicians from Estonia), Lithuania (Inculto), Georgia (`Zumbaland`, `Chveneburebi`, `Region`) will participate in it.

For the first time in the history of Georgian folk songs music by Bach and Georgian hymns were sang in harmony. The ensemble of the Georgian Patriarchate the Basiani performed am impressive show at the Mostly Mozart Festival.

Seventy prisoners will be released from prison on the day of Virgin Mary, August 28. The State Pardon Commission held a session at the president`s palace today and discussed cases of 230 convicts, seventeen of which were women and 12- minors.

The members of the youth wing of the party led by the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, support Georgia`s territorial integrity and condemn Russian aggression.