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TBILISI, DFWatch–Batumi, one of the largest cities in Georgia, has been without electricity and heating four days due to a snow storm.
There is still more than one and half meter snow cover in Batumi and the rest of the mountainous Adjara region. Some streets
TBILISI, DFWatch–Hundreds of people demonstrated in the streets of Tbilisi Wednesday to support the protesters in Kyiv.
Georgians, as well as Ukrainians living in Georgia, gathered in the evening outside Tbilisi concert hall, waving the flags of Ukraine, EU and Georgia,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parliament in Georgia Wednesday passed a statement supporting the demonstrations in the Ukrainian capital.
“The Georgian parliament declares its complete solidarity with the Ukrainian people in its struggle for freedom of choice. It expresses
TBILISI, DFWatch–A physical scuffle broke out in the Georgian parliament on Wednesday.
Soso Jachvliani, MP from the Georgian Dream coalition, scolded Giorgi Baramidze from the National Movement.
His microphone was switched off. This lead to a physical confrontation
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prosecutors in Georgia have charged two more persons with causing the death of a prisoner last May.
December 11, the Prosecutor’s Office charged Nugzar Bechuadze and Shota Sinauridze in connection with the death of Levan Kortava.
Bechuadze is
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia has decided to raise the president’s salary by 2 500 lari (USD 1 450).
There has been talk about increasing the president’s pay for the last week and on Tuesday the governing Georgian Dream coalition asked parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has seven new ambassadors abroad, after President Giorgi Margvelashvili last week signed their appointment.
The new ambassadors are the ones to Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Germany, Japan, China, Iran and Jordan.
According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili has managed to convince the government to amend a disputed passage in a draft bill about local government reform, as promised.
The government prepared a draft law to regulate the country’s territorial
TBILISI, DFWatch–The amount of direct foreign investments in the third quarter of 2013 was USD 239 million, up three percent from the second quarter.
Investments in third quarter of 2013 was 20 percent more than the same period last year.
Foreign investments
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has charged prisoners and prison administration employees with causing the death of Levan Kortava, who was allegedly killed by the so-called thieves in law inside prison.
Kortava died May 23, 2013, at the prison hospital,