Daily Archives: June 18, 2014

Music festival KaZantip defends against splinter group

By | June 18th, 2014|Categories: News, Youth|Tags: , , , , |

Photo published by the Anaklia organizing group. TBILISI, DFWatch–The Republic of KaZantip, until now residing in Crimea, seems to be experiencing its own share of separatism, but it’s hard to figure out who is breaking away from whom. Perhaps it is more fitting to call the music festival uprooted […]

Hate crime vs hooliganism

By | June 18th, 2014|Categories: Opinion|Tags: , , |

Sarah Delys is a criminologist working for Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre in Tbilisi. Last month marked the one-year anniversary of the LGBT rally which turned violent in Tbilisi. The tense situation in the country in the run-up to the International Day Against Homophobia made activists resolve to a silent protest [1] this year. A few days […]

One man dies of electrocution at metal plant in Georgia

By | June 18th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: , |

The metal plant in Rustavi. (DF Watch.) TBILISI, DFWatch–One man died from electrocution on Tuesday at the steelworks part of a smelter plant in Rustavi, near Tbilisi. Nukri Kimadze, 29, was taken to the hospital, but he died soon after arrival. Workers at the plant of Rustavi, a town 20 km south […]

Another landslide blocks main east-west road in Georgia

By | June 18th, 2014|Categories: Environment, News|Tags: , |

Clean-up work is ongoing in Rikoti pass after a second landslide blocked the road again. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Another landslide Tuesday blocked the main road that connects western and eastern Georgia. The first landslide damaged the road through Rikoti Pass on June 12, but the pass was cleaned and reopened after a few days. Tuesday morning […]