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TBILISI, DFWatch–Billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili’s fortune shrunk by USD 1.1 billion during the year he governed his country as prime minister. What happened?
The journal Forbes in 2012 listed Ivanishvili in 153rd place among the world’s billionaires with an estimated
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia on Saturday held the first of what is to be weekly consultations with its coalition’s lawmakers.
Davit Saganelidze, Member of Parliament for the Georgian Dream coalition, said the point of the weekly Saturday meetings
TBILISI, DFWatch–The next meeting between representatives of Georgia and Russia will be held possibly at the end of February in Prague.
Zurab Abashidze, the prime minister’s special representative for relations with Russia, told Interpressnews that he and Gregory
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prison Ministry staff have questioned former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili about his statement about being taken from his cell and threatened by the chief prosecutor.
Merabishvili said in December that he was brought out of his cell and taken
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia has simplified its visa rules for Georgian transit traffic.
According to Deputy Economy Minister Natia Mikeladze, Russia informed Georgia about the decision through the Swiss embassy, which acts as an intermediary since formal relations were
TBILISI, DFWatch–Government has erected 20 tents in a Tbilisi suburb to help homeless people survive the cold winter.
The temporary tents are currently used by more than 200 people, including up to ten children.
The first four tents were put up December 11 on Moscow
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili January 3 announced a competition to select one member of the High Council of Justice.
According to a statement published by the president’s administration, the candidate will be selected among professors
TBILISI, DFWatch–From January 1, the closest family of soldiers who have died on duty will receive a monthly compensation of 500 lari (USD 300).
An amendment was made in June last year to the law about state compensation and state academic scholarship and is now
TBILISI, DFWatch–January 1, unknown persons attacked a gathering of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ozurgeti.
According to local media in the Guria region, the assailants broke the windows of a car the Jehovah’s Witnesses were sitting in and threw stones at the building where they