TBILISI, DFWatch–As Georgia’s national currency lari is continues to fall in value, the economy minister assures the public that the fall will not continue and calls on journalists not to speculate.
Economy Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili said Monday that there
TBILISI, DFWatch–An armed man robbed a bank in Tbilisi on Saturday.
The crime took place at about 10:45 in the morning at a branch of ProCredit Bank at 54 Chavchavadze Avenue in the Vake district.
No-one was injured.
According to witnesses,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A minister in the Georgian government resigned on Tuesday.
Not much is known about why Davit Shavliashvili decided to resign as regional development and infrastructure, but a notice from the ministry said it was for health reasons.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president on Tuesday pardoned 78 prisoners in connection with Easter.
Zviad Koridze, Head of the President’s Pardon Commission, said at a press conference that 57 prisoners will be released from jail today. The remaining 21 had their
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Saturday placed a man suspected of murdering two policemen in pre-trial detention.
The defense did not object to the Prosecutor General’s Office request for detention.
The suspect Shalva Abuladze and his lawyer said
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Friday met with Pope Francis in Rome.
President Giorgi Margvelashvili afterward summed up the meeting as a ‘very important’ one for Georgia.
He said he told the pontiff about security issues, the situation in the Caucasus
TBILISI, DFWatch–High winds injured two people in Batumi and left 4,000 households in the Adjara region without power on Tuesday.
In Batumi, strong wind blew down a tree which fell onto a nearby building with three people inside, two of whom were slightly injured.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A village was evacuated in Imereti in western Georgia Monday night, after a leak of liquid oxygen from an overturned truck.
The truck overturned in a sharp bend, according to the Interior Ministry.
It was carrying a large amount of liquid oxygen.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Georgian boys, one 18 and the other younger, have allegedly left the country to become fighers for Islamic State in Syria, acording to locals.
The two were attending tenth and eleventh grade at a school in the village Omalo, in Pankisi Gorge.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Friday detained a Moldovan citizen for using an ATM skimmer to illegally obtain money.
The suspect installed a so-called ATM skimmer, a barely noticeable device installed in the card reading slot of the machine which copies information