Daily Archives: June 13, 2016

Georgian businessman to open McDonald’s in Armenia

By | June 13th, 2016|Categories: Economy|Tags: , |

Temur Chkonia (right) discussing the opening of a new McDonald’s in Rustavi earlier in 2016. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian businessman may open the first ever McDonald’s restaurant in rival Armenia, Sputnik Armenia reports. The news agency reports that the opening of the first of the chain’s restaurants in Armenia was decided at a meeting […]

Angela Merkel to visit Georgia ‘in the near future’

By | June 13th, 2016|Categories: In brief|Tags: , |

Reiner Haseloff. (Official photo.) TBILISI, DFWatch–German Chancellor Angela Merkel might visit Georgia this summer, Interpressnews reports. The news agency is quoting Reiner Haseloff, the minister president of the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt, as he met Georgian media […]

Georgia’s CEC greenlights another referendum bid about marriage

By | June 13th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Central Election Commission on Sunday gave preliminary approval for one more referendum about same-sex marriage. This is the second referendum bid about this issue and if approved it will be held in parallel with the parliamentary […]

Two Georgians detained by Russian border patrol in Bershueti

By | June 13th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |

(Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Georgians were detained on Saturday by officers of the Russian FSB’s border service patrolling the perimeter of the breakaway region South Ossetia. Roin Zautashvili and his son Giorgi were detained for border violation in the village Bershueti […]