Tbilisi, DFWatch – Svan campaigners declare that their protests will continue as long as no alternatives to the current project assuming flooding of their native valley are presented.
Eight activists arrested in Nenskra power plant protests
Environment
Environmentalists call Tbilisi mayor 'enemy of the city', interrupt speech
TBILISI, DFWatch–Environmental activists interrupted a speech by Tbilisi Mayor Davit Narmania on Tuesday during a session of the City Council, accusing him of being an ‘enemy of the city’.
The activists protested the recent selling off of a part of the city’s botanical garden,
Apartment block planned on cemetery for German prisoners from WWII
TBILISI, DFWatch–A construction company plans to build residential apartments on what according to locals is a cemetery for German prisoners of war from World War II.
According to the environmentalist group Guerrilla Gardening Tbilisi, construction is planned
Hotel construction permit in Tbilisi park revoked by court
TBILISI, DFWatch–On Wednesday, after a two-year-long legal dispute, Tbilisi City Court revoked the construction permit for Budapest Hotel, which is planned to be built in Vake Park in Tbilisi, journal Liberali reported.
Wednesday’s ruling concerned a lawsuit
UNM activists join environmentalists in stopping Ivanishvili's tree-moving
TBILISI, DFWatch–Five people were detained Wednesday during a rally in Tsikhisdziri on the Black Sea coast near Kobuleti.
They were protesting against the removal of three giant old trees which they suspect will be hauled by boat 40km up the coast
Traffic problems in midst of massive snowfall in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Intense snowfall and strong wind is causing trouble for drivers on the E60 highway through Georgia and Batumi’s palm trees are covered in white.
The Road Department now calls on everyone to avoid the Zestaponi-Senaki section of the E60
E60 through Georgia cut off by flood for the third time
TBILISI, DFWatch–A section of the E60, the main highway east-west through Georgia, has once more been cut off because a river spilled over its banks near Kutaisi.
The damaged section is the 206th km of the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze road, the same section which
Flood prevention work begins in Tbilisi hills to prevent new disaster
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Hall has begun clean-up work on the Tskneti-Betania road close to the capital, which was the origin of a landslide that caused a flood wave in Tbilisi in June, 2015.
City Hall said on Saturday that experts have finished examining
One man dies in landslide in southwestern Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–One man died in a landslide in southwestern Georgia on Sunday.
The victim, 58 year old Otar Davitadze, was on night watch supervising machinery in an open pit mine when a landslide hit in the village Akhalsheni, Khelvachauri.
Strong rain triggered landslides in Adjara, Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Strong rain overnight Thursday caused flooding and landslides in the Adjara region, in the southwest of Georgia.
In Kobuleti, a Black Sea coastal resort, railway traffic was cut off and landslides triggered in the highlands.
No casualties have