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TBILISI, DFWatch–Fighting broke out Tuesday at Tbilisi City Council over a proposal to shut down a large private dog shelter in the capital.
Neighbors of the shelter showed up at the council session to demand that it be shut down because they consider it a nuisance.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday appointed Tamar Beruchashvili as new foreign minister.
Beruchashvili was a deputy to Foreign Minister Maya Panjikidze, who resigned in protest against the dismissal of Defense Minister Irakli Alasania
TBILISI, DFWatch–Students at Tbilisi State University on Monday demonstrated against what they say is a clan-run education system which doesn’t encourage scientific activities.
The march started from the central branch of the university and ended outside the
TBILISI, DFWatch–A street fight with ethnic overtones in eastern Georgia on Sunday led to people being hospitalized and several people were detained.
The scuffle took place in the town Akhmeta, between local Georgians and Kist, who are a subgroup of Chechens
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili will address parliament on November 14 at noon.
The address will be held at the beginning at a plenary session and be followed by an address of the speaker of parliament.
November 5, right after the prime minister
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new forensic report concluding that the victim of a beating in 2005 had life-threatening injuries has led to tougher charges being introduced against Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili.
The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office announced
TBILISI, DFWatch–The governing Georgian Dream coalition on Monday increased the number of seats it controls in parliament to 87, as twelve majoritarians agreed to support the bloc.
The same day as the twelve decided to join the majority, the Free Democrats officially
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia has reopened a strategically important tunnel through the Caucasus mountain range after a full-scale overhaul that has taken two and a half years and cost USD 400 million.
According to Russian officials, equipment had been moved from the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Justice Minister Thea Tsulukiani decided to finally leave the Free Democrats, the party led by the dismissed defense minister Irakli Alasania.
Tsulukiani recently withdrew from the Georgian Dream coalition due to political crisis following the sacking
TBILISI, DFWatch–The father of Georgia’s government coalition, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, presented his plans for a new talk show Saturday.
Ivanishvili, who was prime minister the first year of the Georgian Dream coalition’s government, will appear on the