DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch — Tbilisi City Council has solved the issue of trash collection fee, which is calculated based on how much electricity a household consumes.
On Thursday, the council decided to reduce the trash tariff to half for five months from November till May.
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says the intelligence service will be separated from the interior ministry and be set up as an independent state agency.
“This service will have as function to find secret information, analyze,
TBILISI, DFWatch — The outgoing and new government disagree over the size of the state coffers.
Former government members claim that there is more than two billion lari, nearly USD 1.2 billion, in the state coffers.
But new Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri says there
TBILISI, DFWatch — The new parliamentary majority plans to study the case of Givi Targamadze. He is a member of the National Movement party who according to Russian media has been helping the opposition in Russia to organize revolution.
A few days ago, Russian media
TBILISI, DFWatch — The famous Georgian mineral water plant Borjomi is still paralyzed by strike, as railway workers and dockers are also warning of protest action.
Workers at Georgian Railway yesterday warned that they would stop the trains for a couple of hours,
TBILISI, DFWatch — The new government in Georgia wants to do away with administrative detention.
This is a form of incarceration left over from the Soviet Union which allows authorities to put away citizens as a preventive measure without going through normal court procedures, and has
The future Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Wednesday visited parliament to meet with the minority and answer their critical questions about the future plans and goals of the government and the government’s plan.
Most of the questions were about the time
TBILISI, DFWatch — Bidzina Ivanishvivli, leader of the Georgian Dream coalition and future Prime Minister, says he will leave politics in a year and a half but continue to lead his coalition after that as a member of civil society.
The coalition leader on Wednesday
TBILISI, DFWatch — The results of the recent parliamentary election encouraged workers all over Georgia to protest against their harsh conditions and demand improvements.
Next to join in are the workers at a plant in Borjomi processing the well-known mineral water
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia may reconsider the size of its contingent in Afghanistan after 2014.
Candidate for new foreign minister Maia Panjikidze does not exclude that the new government will make changes to Georgia’s participation in the NATO-led ISAF operation