DFWatch staff 
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,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two persons have died after a roof of a greenhouse collapsed in Georgia because of bad weather.
The accident happened Monday evening in the village Salibauri in the Adjara region and was caused by strong wind and heavy snowfall.
Two women, aged 35
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parties in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war Monday discussed the installation of warning signs and fences in the villages Ghogheti and Bershueti on the border to the breakaway region South Ossetia.
This was the 40th meeting of the Incident Prevention
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Airways will offer direct flights between Tbilisi and the Olympic village Sochi from February 4, 2014, in connection with the upcoming Winter Games.
There will be flights between Tbilisi and Sochi every Tuesday and Thursday until May.
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