TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of visitors to Georgia in May, 2015, was 14.7 percent more than in the same month last year.
According to the Interior Ministry, the number of people crossing the border in May was 454,545.
In the first five months of 2015, the total number of people
Tbilisi, DFWatch – At least 13 dogs drowned in flood on Wednesday night in Tbilisi at Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s dog shelter.
A heavy rain flooded river Vere and the water flushed the shelter’s ground floor.
Patrol police crew and several employees came at the shelter at night to help the pets, but some of the dogs had already been swept away.
TBILISI, DFWatch–One man and about 500 sheep and 40 cows were caught up in a landslide in the village Khone, in Khevsureti on Tuesday.
According to Information Center of Mtskheta, shepherd Giorgi Shetekauri is missing after the glacial mudslide.
Rescue workers
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three Polish tourists have been airlifted by helicopter from Mount Tetnuldi near the Russian border, after being trapped by heavy snowfall at 4,200 meter’s height.
News of the rescue operation appeared on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Monday evening,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three chains of pharmacies in Georgia have been fined 500 laris each for recording conversations at their 24 hours outlets without notifying customers.
According to the Personal Data Protection, 365 pharmacies of the chains Aversi-Geopharmi, PSP
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin was set to meet the de facto president of South Ossetia on Monday in Moscow.
According to the press office of the South Ossetian leader Leonid Tibilov, the two plan to discuss bilateral relations and cooperation
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian chess player Nino Batsiashvili took silver at the European Women’s Individual Chess Championship 2015, which was held in Chakvi, Georgia from May 18 until May 30.
Batsiashvili, who is from Batumi, came second after Ukrainian Natalya Zhukova.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Five people were detained in Tbilisi on Saturday, accused of providing premises for prostitution.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the detainees – one man and four women – are managers of the hotels Sabudara and Viza in Tbilisi.
The investigation
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ten Georgian citizens were released by authorities in the breakaway region South Ossetia Tuesday evening. They had been detained for ‘violating the border’.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the released are: Nugzar Gelashvili, from the village
TBILISI, DFWatch–Everyone who wishes so may today sign the declaration of protection of personal information and respect toward others.
This is an initiative by the Personal Data Protection Inspectorate, which was created nearly two years ago and are out on the street