DFWatch (18–24 July 2015)
Daghestan
- A policeman and a suspected militant were killed in a shootout in the Tabasaran district on 19 July. A group of unidentified people opened fire to a group of policemen in the forest near the village of Akka.
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PM accuses president of promoting Saakashvili's party
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday accused President Giorgi Margvelashvili of being pro-National Movement, after the latter pardoned the brother of a member of that party, which is opposed to the government.
Among 98 prisoners
Jachvliani: EBRD should award me for publicity
Tbilisi, DFWatch – A member of parliament from the ruling Georgian Dream coalition, whose apparent confusion of the abbreviation for European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with a brothel has become an instant hit in social media, came forward of Thursday in his attempt to explain his awkward speech a day earlier.
Hail hits Kakheti wine heartland
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Hailstorm once again hit Telavi and Kvareli municipalities, heartland of Georgia’s grape growing and wine producing Kakheti region in Eastern Georgia, badly damaging famous vineyards, as well as watermelon and corn fields.
Georgian MP confused EBRD with a brothel
TBILISI, DFWatch–A member of parliament from the governing coalition on Wednesday defended himself against what he thought was innuendo implying that he had visited a brothel.
The speech by Soso Jachvliani, an armwrestler, actor and film director who is also
57 kg of amphetamine found in car
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia seized more than 57 kg of amphetamine on Tuesday. The drugs were found in the car of a man who attempted to cross the border with Armenia at Sadakhlo.
As the police checked the Toyota Land Cruiser,
Gomelauri confirmed as head of Georgia's new counterintelligence
TBILISI, DFWatch–Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri was approved as new head of the State Security Service on Wednesday, as the ministry he has headed until now is split in two.
Facing questions from parliamentarians, Gomelauri said that one
Donald Tusk sees off Georgian soldiers bound for Central African Republic
TBILISI, DFWatch–At the end of his two-day visit to Georgia, President of the European Council Donald Tusk on Tuesday attended a meeting with Georgian soldiers preparing to leave for the Central African Republic.
He wished the soldiers good luck and thanked
Ombudsman calls for investigation of banker's 2011 detention and fine
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Public Defender has asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate a possible crime which took place in March, 2011.
A person with the initials L.L. was detained by strangers and brought to the Prosecutor General’s Office,
Georgia police seize 7 kilos of cocaine at Sarpi
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Interior Ministry on Tuesday seized more than seven kilograms of cocaine.
According to the ministry, a 25 year old Lebanese man attempted to leave Georgia with the cocaine but was arrested at the checkpoint in Sarpi, at the border