Daily Archives: June 9, 2015

The dark past of Saakashvili’s appointee in Odessa

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Gia Lortkipanidze (IPN.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Georgian deputy interior minister who is affiliated with a violent police operation in August, 2012, is to be appointed head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s branch in Odessa. Gia Lortkipanidze served under President Mikheil Saakashvili when he […]

Saakashvili to get one more former associate in Odessa administration

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Gia Lortkipanidze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–One more former Georgian government official is to be appointed to a high position in the new Ukrainian government, a Ukrainian media outlet reports. According to Unian.net, Gia Lortkipanidze may be appointed as head of the Interior Ministry Department in Odessa. […]

Foreign investments in Q1 down 34% in 2015

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Sakdrisi gold mine. Much of the foreign investments go into mining. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–There was 34 percent less direct foreign investment in Georgia in the first quarter of 2015 than in the same period last year. According to preliminary figures from the Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, the amount of foreign investments in the first quarter was […]

Georgian soldier breaks own world record for planche push-ups

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(Ministry of Defense.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A 23 year old Georgian double amputee has broken his own world record for planche push-ups. Corporal Temur Dadiani lost both legs in 2011 while serving in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Sunday, he managed to do 44 push-ups in one minute; 8 more […]