Daily Archives: July 6, 2015

Update: Building collapse in Tbilisi causes four deaths

By | July 6th, 2015|Categories: News|Tags: |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Four people died when a building collapsed in central Tbilisi on Monday. Three of them died on the spot, while the fourth, believed to be 17 or 18 years old, died of his injuries at the hospital. The three dead were laborers working to demolish […]

Sleazy 90s transition – Paul Manning on “Shevardnadze Era” in Georgia

By | July 6th, 2015|Categories: Interviews|

Khevsur girls – girls in the village of Khakhmati, Khevsureti in 2002 (Paul Manning) TBILISI, DFWatch–When I heard Paul Manning, an anthropologist from Trent University (Canada) is visiting Tbilisi, I knew I had to meet him. Not only because of his papers on  toasts and supra culture, cartoons during the Rose Revolution, notion of terror in Pankisi, […]

Economy minister sees no threat to flow of remittances from Greece

By | July 6th, 2015|Categories: Economy|Tags: , |

Giorgi Kvirikashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Economy Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said Sunday that a week of halted money transfers will not hamper the flow of money sent home by Georgian migrants in Greece. Banks in Greece shut down last week after the Tsipras government’s […]

Houses burned by bush fire in southern Georgia

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

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–There was a fire in Gardabani in the south of Georgia on Sunday. Several abandoned houses burned down, and a woman was slightly injured. Hundreds of firefighters and rescue workers managed to put out the fire in Kumisi settlement […]