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TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of French senators on a midsummer visit Tuesday toured close to a village which was taken by Russia in the 2008 war.
The senators’s trip took them to the surrounding area close to the village Akhalgori. The village was renamed Leningor
TBILISI, DFWatch – Media in Russia and Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia report that the head of the investigation department at the de facto South Ossetian Prosecutor General’s office has been murdered.
Roland Chitayev was reported kidnapped on Monday
TBILISI, DFWatch – OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly Monday passed a resolution about Georgia, which uses the term ‘occupation’ about Russia’s military presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The resolition also calls on Russia to live up to the terms of the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Heavy rain caused flooding in several parts of Georgia Tuesday.
In Kutaisi, the second largest city, first floors and basements are under water.
In Batumi, a defective drainage channel let to rivers of water in the roads.
Local media in the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Vice Speaker of Parliament was today elected as one of the vice presidents of OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly.
OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly are gathered in Monaco to elect a president and vice presidents. Riccardo Migliori,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Two ministers who where switched around in a government reshuffle are taking their staff with them.
Former education minister Dimitry Shashkin is the new defense minister, and officials from the education ministry are now following after him.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has offered to send rescue teams to Russia to help the flood victims in the Krasnodar region.
Manana Manjgaladze, spokesperson for Georgian President said on Sunday that the president expresses his deep
TBILISI, DFWatch – Tbilisi City Court on Sunday fined seventeen opposition supporters USD 700 000 for illegal campaign donations.
In local currency, the exact size of the fines are 1 202 000 lari, collectively.
The State Audit Service, which is entitled to track
TBILISI, DFWatch – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly July 9 is to adopt a resolution which for the first time calls the presence of Russian military in Georgia’s breakaway regions an occupation.
The resolution deals with the current situation in Georgia. The ten point
TBILISI, DFWatch – Two of the four who were imprisoned following a street fight at one of opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili’s campaign rallies have been released.
The scuffle took place on June 26 in Mereti, a village near a Russian-Ossetian check point.