Daily Archives: May 14, 2012

Georgia’s gas and oil company is on LSE

By | May 14th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has obtained a listing on London Stock Exchange for obligations in Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation. Securities valued USD 250 million were placed on one of the world’s most famous stock exchanges on May 9. According to Kommersant, the lowest […]

Ivanishvili sells off his assets in Russia

By | May 14th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Saakashvili’s main political opponent Bidzina Ivanishvili will sell all his property in Russia by the end of May. The billionaire said this after it became public that his shares in companies in Russia were already sold. According to Forbes magazine, […]

Inefficient system for releasing prisoners due to illness

By | May 14th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: , |

Recent practice and statistics have revealed the extreme severity of the problem of inefficiency of the legal mechanisms that envision release of convicts from imprisonment due to their serious illness, writes Tamta Mikeladze, lawyer at Georgian Young Lawyers’ […]

What caused the flood in Tbilisi?

By | May 14th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Residents in the disaster struck district of Tbilisi speak about different reasons causing damage during heavy flooding Saturday night. Heavy rain caused mud slide from ravines down towards residential houses and streets. Ortachala is an old district […]

Kalmakhelidze orders more crowded prisons in Georgia

By | May 14th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Prisons in Georgia are to become more crowded, as the maximum limit on number of inmates is raised, and two prisons are closed down. It’s the controversial Minister for Corrections and Legal Assistance, Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, who has ordered the […]