TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili will visit Brussels February 3-5.
He will meet with Commissioner for European Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule, and President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso.
The Georgian prime
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four flights were delayed at Tbilisi airport on Wednesday due to fog.
A flight to Istanbul was delayed several hours. A plane arriving from Warsaw was unable to land at Tbilisi airport and instead landed in Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The lion tamer who was attacked by a lion last Thursday has died in the hospital.
The circus worker remained in intensive care, but doctors could not save him.
The 23-year-old lion tamer was from a Ukrainian circus troupe and entered the cage to do
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man has died in an apparent accident in a coal mine in Tkibuli, a town in Georgia’s mid-western Imereti region.
Tariel Kasrashvili, a shift leader, died at 16:00 on Tuesday. He was transporting coal inside the Mindeli mine when he fell and died on
TBILISI, DFWatch–A student from Iraq was beaten in the Georgian city Kutaisi on Saturday. Local media writes that he was attack because of his origins.
The student was brought to the hospital and will have to remain there for several more days.
Unknown assailants
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili on Sunday pardoned 54 prisoners. Two of them are minors, and one is a woman.
The pardoning took palce in connection with Epiphany, a holiday usually celebrated on January 19. It is regular practice for the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The United States will give more than USD 62 million in aid to Georgia in 2014.
Georgia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry says the extent of U.S. aid was decided in the Consolidated Appropriations Act for fiscal year of 2014, which was passed by the House
TBILISI, DFWatch–The president and the secretary of the Venice Commission will visit Georgia on January 16.
Gianni Buquicchio and Thomas Markert will meet with Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili on Thursday and members of the constitution commission, which is
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is preparing to start a Facebook page that will offer information about its activities in the Abkhazian language.
Abkhazia is one of two Georgian breakaway regions under Russian control. The previous government also took steps
TBILISI, DFWatch–Checkpoint Lars, the only Russian border crossing with Georgia, will be open 24 hours from January 15.
Kavkaz Uzel writes that a person working at the checkpoint says the checkpoint on the Georgian side, which is called Kazbegi, will also be open 24