Daily Archives: June 22, 2013

Hailstorm destroys crops in eight villages in eastern Georgia

By | June 22nd, 2013|Categories: Environment, News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–A hailstorm Friday night damaged eight villages in Akhmeta in the eastern Kakheti region of Georgia. The damaged villages are Ashkhnis Velebi, Akhshani, Arashenda, Chabinaani, Khorkheli, Zemo Khodasheni, Ozhio and Atskhuri, according to […]

Georgian released from Tskhinvali detention

By | June 22nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

Rostom Sosiashvili. (Photo from Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian citizen who was detained May 29 by Russian border guards for crossing the so-called administrative border with South Ossetia was released on Friday, June 21. The 35th session of Incident Prevention and Reaction Mechanisms was held on […]

More surveillance material found in western Georgia

By | June 22nd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

Some of the tapes found in an underground weapons cache in Samegrelo last week. (Police.ge.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Friday announced the discovery of more weapons in an underground cache in the western Samegrelo region. The latest find adds four more barrels to a cache discovered last week containing weapons, drugs and surveillance […]

GeoStat to begin census work July 2014

By | June 22nd, 2013|Categories: Society|Tags: |

Minister of Regional Development Davit Narmania. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s National Statistics Department will starts the first phase of a population census on July 1, 2014. Minister of Regional Development Davit Narmania said Friday that the first part of the work will be conducted in the regions Adjara, […]