Daily Archives: March 10, 2016

Direct foreign investments in Georgia down 23% in 2015

By | March 10th, 2016|Categories: Economy|Tags: |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia went 23 down percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, according to preliminary figures from Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat. According to the report, the amount […]

17% of teachers pass professional exams, up from 4% in 2015

By | March 10th, 2016|Categories: Education|Tags: , |

Education Minister Tamar Sanikidze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The vast majority of Georgian school teachers have failed their professional exams. On Thursday, Businesscontact.ge published statistics which shows that the teachers in primary school had the worst exam results of all. Teachers […]

Georgians, please behave well in Europe: justice minister

By | March 10th, 2016|Categories: Europe|Tags: , |

Thea Tsulukiani. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Minister of Justice Thea Tsulukiani called on her country’s citizens not to shame themselves after the visa liberalization comes into force and the borders of Schengen will be open for Georgians. Tsulukiani told journalists after […]

ISIS’s Georgian-born commander ‘wounded, not dead’: Report

By | March 10th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

Undated photo of Abu Omar TBILISI, DFWatch–The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) announced that according to its sources military commander of the Islamic State, Tarkhan Batirashvili, was seriously injured in an American airstrike on 4 March, yet not killed, Reuters reported. […]

Free Democrats support constitutional ban on gay marriage

By | March 10th, 2016|Categories: Minorities, News|Tags: , |

Viktor Dolidze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Free Democrats, an opposition party which until 2014 was a member of the ruling Georgian Dream coalition, supports a Constitutional amendment that will define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Four members […]