Levan Gachechiladze plans to meet Irakli Alasania The leader of the movement Protest Georgia, Levan Gachechiladze plans to meet with the leader of another political organization, the Alliance for Georgia, Irakli Alasania later today. The two leaders have refused to specify the place, where the meeting of the opposition leaders will take place. The Alliance leaders announced earlier that consultations on joint candidates for the upcoming self-government elections were over, the situation changed after the member of the alliance, Koka Guntsadze visited the office of the Protect Georgia movement.

Famous journalist goes to politics Popular Georgian journalist, famous for her open and unbiased criticism, goes to politics after several months` pause in her activities in media. Inga Grigolia, who is in London now for education, has been offered leading position in the list of the Christian Democratic Movement for the self-government elections scheduled for May 30 2010. In her telephone interview with Rustavi2, Grigolia has confirmed that she has agreed to go to politics with her former colleagues, who have also left media and moved to politics after the 2007 developments in Georgia. She says she will arrive in Georgia earlier then she had planned and join the pre-election campaign. If the CDM wins the polls, Inga Grigolia will be the chairperson of the Tbilisi City Hall.

Moscow Terms Report by Special Representative of UN Secretary General as Provocation Moscow has termed the report by Special Representative of UN Secretary General Walter Kalin as a provocation, Itar-Tass says. Kalin prepared the report after his visit to Tskhinvali. According to Russian Representative to the UN Mikheil Lebedev, the report is biased, politicized, and it includes factual mistakes. Fore example, ‘Georgia’ is used instead of ‘South Ossetia’ in the report. According to Lebedev, Kalin’s report does not include any word about ‘the torment, the Ossetian people have suffered as a result of the aggression by the Georgian government’. He also denies Kalin’s statement regarding limited humanitarian activities in the so-called South Ossetia.