TBILISI, DFWatch–There is confusion over how to interpret the results of Saturday’s election in Georgia. A CEC spokesperson said Monday that the third party Alliance of Patriots is still below the threshold, but even so, the commission will discuss if it may still be qualified with 4.998%.
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Radicals object to Pope’s visit to Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–A radical Orthodox Christian group Friday protested against Pope Francis’s visit to Georgia with a small gathering of about 30 persons shouting ‘devil’, ‘cursed’ and holding posters with messages like ‘Antichrist, get out of Georgia.’
Government embarks on examining beauty salons
Tbilisi, DFwatch – Beauty salons have to formally register at the Public Registry from October 1, in order to be properly examined by the Ministry of Health in the frames of the government program aimed at eliminating Hepatitis C.
UNM pledges not to prosecute Ivanishvili after elections
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement will not prosecute Bidzina Ivanishvili and his supporters , Giga Bokeria, the party’s foreign affairs secretary said at a briefing on Wednesday.
Bokeria predicts ‘inevitable’ loss by the Georgian Dream,
Man electrocuted trying to save 3-year-old girl who fell into swimming pool
TBILISI, DFWatch–A young man was electrocuted in Batumi on Wednesday after he jumped into a swimming pool to save a three-year-old girl.
The incident happened at about 11:00 in the morning in a guesthouse at a place called Benze.
A girl fell into the pool in the garden
Dniproavia launches direct Odessa-Tbilisi flights from October 6
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukrainian airline Dniproavia is beginning weekly flights to Tbilisi, Georgia, starting October 6.
Flights will have a duration of 2 hours and 25 minutes each way.
The airline has decided to use the Brazilian twin-engine jet Embraer 145, which is capable
Georgia's foreign trade turnover Jan-Aug up 16% in 2016
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first eight months of 2016 was 16 percent more than in the same period last year, new figures from Georgia’s National Statistics Office show.
The figures, presented in the latest preliminary monthly report by GeoStat,
Storm blew roofs off houses in a dozen villages in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Strong wind blew the roof off buildings in a dozen villages in the east of Georgia on Wednesday, Information Center of Kakheti (ICK) reported.
The wind lifted the roof off houses in about ten villages in villages in Lagodekhi municipality, in the Kakheti region,
60-year-old Georgian cattle herder detained by Russian border patrol
TBILISI, DFWatch–A 60-year-old Georgian man was detained on Sunday near the border with Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia for violating the border.
Valiko Khizanishvili, who is from the village Koshka, was detained when he was out in a field looking after cattle.
Georgia appoints new ambassador to the United States
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Krivikashvili on Friday appointed a new ambassador to Washington.
Replacing Archil Gegeshidze is Davit Bakradze, the minister of Euro-integration who has been in charge of Georgia’s approaches to the European Union