Daily Archives: July 11, 2013

Georgia has relocated Afghanistan soldiers

By | July 11th, 2013|Categories: News, Security|Tags: , , |

Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Irakli Alasania says Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan have relocated to a safer place after the last attack on one of their bases, which caused the death of seven soldiers. However, the investigation into the Taliban threat video, […]

Three ‘anti-Duma’ demonstrators fined USD 240

By | July 11th, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: |

From the July 7 scuffle outside Dinamo stadium in Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has fined three participants at a rally outside Dinamo stadium on July 7. Groups of mostly young people rallied against Russian Duma members who were watching a match between the football teams Dinamo Tbilisi and Dinamo Moscow. […]

Government in Georgia increases fines for immoral behavior

By | July 11th, 2013|Categories: Society|Tags: , |

Some believe the bill will ban kissing in public places. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry demands to have fines for certain violations which are now punished only with undefined sanctions. But some people think the ministry is increasing the size of the fines and are against the initiative. The Ministry of Internal […]

Second detention this week near de facto border

By | July 11th, 2013|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers have detained one more Georgian citizen and taken him to Tskhinvali, the capital of the de facto breakaway region South Ossetia. Witnesses claim that the detainee, Guram Gigineishvili, 49, was working in the cornfield in the village […]