Daily Archives: April 2, 2015

Two veterinarians accused of fraud, approved unchecked meat

By | April 2nd, 2015|Categories: In brief|Tags: , |

Deserters market, where the unchecked meat was sold. (DF Watch.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Finance Ministry’s Investigative Service on Thursday detained two veterinarians in Tbilisi for fraud that allowed potentially dangerous meat to get through to consumers. Veterinarians Khvicha Bichiashvili and Mamuka Mzhavanadze are charged with […]

Tsalka – a Greek ghost town in Georgia

By | April 2nd, 2015|Categories: Minorities|Tags: , , |

TSALKA, DFWatch–Tsalka in southern Georgia used to be home to more than twenty thousand Greeks, but today there are only 1,500 left. ”My parents, grandparents and great grandparents, they all were born in Georgia. This is our home. Sadly, […]

Georgia’s defense minister confirms controversial call to predecessor

By | April 2nd, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

Mindia Janelidze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Mindia Janelidze has confirmed after five months that he talked on the phone with his predecessor Irakli Alasania, who was then visiting France. But he denies what Alasania claims he told him on phone in that conversation. […]