Daily Archives: May 27, 2016

Unemployment declined by slight 0.4%: Geostat

By | May 27th, 2016|Categories: Society|

Georgian railway workers (ipn) Tbilisi, DFWatch – Annual unemployment rate in Georgia declined by 0.4 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, according to the new report published by The National Statistics Office of Georgia (GeoStat). […]

18 yo arrested for possible homophobic assault, stabbing

By | May 27th, 2016|Categories: In brief|

Tbilisi, DFWatch – Police arrested an 18-year-old man, who allegedly stabbed two men, one minor, on possibly homophobic grounds. […]

South Ossetia postpones referendum on joining Russia

By | May 27th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

Tbilisi, DFWatch – The de facto leadership of South Ossetia issued a statement saying that the referendum on joining Russia would be conducted in 2017, instead of, as previously planned, in August this year at latest. […]

Appeal Court upholds ‘not guilty’ verdict in transphobic murder case

By | May 27th, 2016|Categories: News|

Sabi Beriani (Facebook) Tbilisi, DFWatch – The Tbilisi Appeal Court announced yesterday that it upheld the verdict of the Tbilisi City Court, which ruled in August 2015 that Levan Kochlashvili wasn’t guilty of the murder of the transgender woman, Sabi Beriani. […]

Georgia marked Independence Day [photo]

By | May 27th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

Oath taking ceremony on Freedom Square (DFWatch) As a tradition, an oath taking ceremony was held on Freedom Square, however for the first time it was also held in other places – in Kakheti, Samegrelo, Samtskhe-Javakheti, Imereti and Adjara. Totally 432 recruits all over Georgia took an oath. […]