Daily Archives: March 6, 2015

Govt coalition sabotaged vote over inquest into destruction of ancient site

By | March 6th, 2015|Categories: Environment|Tags: |

Sakdrisi after the destruction. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia again failed to create a commission to study the destruction of an ancient gold mine in December. Scientists have found more than 5,400 years old human artefacts in the Sakdrisi cave near Bolnisi, but the archaeologically […]

Georgia’s govt fails to present crisis plan by March 5 deadline

By | March 6th, 2015|Categories: Politics|Tags: , |

Nodar Khaduri. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia says it has not yet prepared an action plan for tackling the currency crisis after a drastic drop in the value of the national currency lari over the last few months. An action plan was expected on March 5, after […]

Tbilisi slips three places in quality of living ranking

By | March 6th, 2015|Categories: In brief|Tags: |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi ranks 194th among 230 cities in the newest survey of quality of living published by Mercer’s. While last year’s report noted the Georgian capital as the lowest-ranked city in Europe at 191, residents may this year find some comfort […]