TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian speaker of parliament is Tuesday visiting Israel.
Davit Usupashvili will meet with Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Speaker of the Knesset, as well as with the head of the Israel-Georgia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Avraham Michaeli.
Usupashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–A 16-year-old boy died on late Thursday as a result of a rockslide in Borjomi, a tourist resort in the south of Georgia.
Nika Korghanashvili, who was spending his holiday in Borjomi with some friends, was walking home from the sulphur baths
TBILISI, DFWatch–Drivers of bus line number 19 in Tbilisi on Thursday laid down work as a sign of protest, after one of their colleagues died on the job.
A passenger got into a physical scuffle with a bus driver at noon on the number 19 line in the suburb Ponichala,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Culture Ministry and Georgian Church will Thursday sign a memorandum about protection of cultural heritage.
The memorandum is about taking care of cultural heritage that is in the ownership of the Georgian Church.
According to the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Saturday added further pretrial detention for former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia for the murder of Sergo Tetradze.
Akhalaia’s defense lawyers wanted the court to set a 30,000 lari bail, but the court decided on two months
TBILISI, DFWatch–A minibus crushed into a truck on Tuesday, resulting in the death of a 14-year-old girl and ten others being injured.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the accident happened at Rikoti Pass, which connects western and eastern Georgia.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Monday rejected a motion by the Prosecutor’s Office to change the USD 30,000 bail set for former Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava into pre-trial detention.
The judge said that the arguments in the motion were not strong enough
TBILISI, DFWatch–The second round of Georgia’s local elections are proceeding without any major violations.
Voter turnout at 17:00 was 28% – significantly less than in the first round, when the turnout was 35% at 17:00, according to the Central Election Commission
TBILISI, DFWatch–EU Ambassador to Georgia Philip Dimitrov says business in Georgia will have to do a lot and is not going to be served breakfast in bed after the signing of the association agreement.
Speaking at a conference in Batumi, Dimitrov told
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several large companies in Georgia are offering discounts for customers who go and vote in the second round of local elections on Saturday.
A commercial appeared on television Thursday, placed by ‘businesses united for a common goal’. It calls