Daily Archives: June 10, 2013

Foreign Policy or a Battle Cry?

By | June 10th, 2013|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia. What happened in October? The October 2012 parliamentary election gave Georgia a chance for normal development. Needless to say, a government assuming power through violence cannot be democratic. Thus, defeating the National Movement through the ballot box instead of […]

42 000 less jobs since fourth quarter of 2012

By | June 10th, 2013|Categories: Economy, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of employed in the business sector has increased by 16 000 in the first quarter of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, but the number has decreased by 42 000 compared to the fourth quarter of 2012. In the first quarter of 2013, […]

Georgia’s Security Council to meet to discuss video threat

By | June 10th, 2013|Categories: News, Security|Tags: , |

Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has called Georgia’s National Security Council together for another session in the beginning of this week to discuss a video threat uploaded on Youtube. The video contains threats against Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan […]

Thousands attend funeral of dead Georgian soldiers

By | June 10th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

  Funeral of the seven dead soldiers was held at Sameba on Sunday (DF Watch photo) TBILISI, DFWatch–Sunday, thousands of people attended the funeral of the seven soldiers who died in Afghanistan. Patriarch Ilia II conducted the funeral which took place at Sameba Cathedral in Tbilisi. The prime minister and almost the entire government were present during the service […]