Daily Archives: December 24, 2012

Ivanishvili to ask for quota system for Kars-Akhalkalaki

By | December 24th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is considering proposing a quota system for sharing cargo load between the existing railway through Georgia and a new railway under construction which will bypass Georgia’s Black Sea ports Poti and Batumi. […]

Georgia cuts electricity price by a quarter

By | December 24th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili promises that electricity prices will be reduced by around 25 percent from January 1, 2013. As winter has arrived in Georgia, Ivanishvili brought good news to a press conference Monday at Sheraton […]

Georgia’s Interior Ministry auctions off luxury cars

By | December 24th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Interior Ministry has decided to put its luxurious cars up for auction. The new leadership at the ministry has prepared around 50 cars for sale, and models range from Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Vogue, to BMW […]

TI asks for proof that wiretap was legal

By | December 24th, 2012|Categories: NGO news|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Transparency International Georgia demands that the authorities show proof that they had a legal right to secretly tap the phones of two former officials. The phone conversations in question were used to justify detaining officials in the […]

Five policemen dismissed in one of Georgia’s controversial cases

By | December 24th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Five policemen who were involved in one of the controversial cases against officials in Georgia have been dismissed. The five were based at the Central Criminal Police Department and carried out the first detention of Tengiz Gunava, a former […]