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TBILISI, DFWatch–Traffic is prohibited on the Gudauri-Kobi section of the road from Mtskheta to larsi via Stepantsminda due to the avalanche danger.
The Environment Ministry warned about possible avalanches in this section of road. According to the Road Department,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Interior Ministry still stocks about 28 000 computer files with recordings that were part of a system of political surveillance obtained through illegal means.
Only a few of the files will be destroyed – those which contain material of an intimate nature.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A prosecutor in France does not want to extradite Davit Kezerashvili, former Defense Minister of Georgia, who was detained in France in October, 2013.
Georgia has charged the former minister with abuse of power and receiving more than USD 12 million
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has visited Israel to meet with his colleague Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres.
The meeting with Peres was about the good bilateral relations between the two countries and confirmed an intention to deepen
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s estimated real GDP growth rate was 8.4 percent in December 2013, compared to the same month in 2012, according to preliminary data published by the National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
According to the estimate, real GDP growth
TBILISI, DFWatch–The de facto president of South Ossetia, Leonid Tibilov, has dismissed the government.
About a week ago, Tibilov said that the government of Rostik Khugaev was unable to fulfill its duties in regard to South Ossetia’s social and economic
TBILISI, DFWatch–People from the Svaneti mountain village Khaishi Wednesday demonstrated against the construction of a gigantic hydro power dam that will wipe out their community.
Demonstrators blocked the road to Jvari-Mestia with stones to interrupt land surveying
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four flights were delayed at Tbilisi airport on Wednesday due to fog.
A flight to Istanbul was delayed several hours. A plane arriving from Warsaw was unable to land at Tbilisi airport and instead landed in Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four more witnesses were heard on Tuesday in a trial about the violent police dispersal on May 26, 2011.
The witnesses were Zaza Papuashvili, Soso Jachvliani and Luka Kurtanidze, who represent the People’s Assembly, and Beka Javakhadze from the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The lion tamer who was attacked by a lion last Thursday has died in the hospital.
The circus worker remained in intensive care, but doctors could not save him.
The 23-year-old lion tamer was from a Ukrainian circus troupe and entered the cage to do