TBILISI, DFWatch – The monthly number of visitors to Georgia continues to increase. The small country noted a 54 percent growth of visitors during the first seven months of 2012, compared to the same period last year.
2 211 201 foreigners visited Georgia in this
TBILISI, DFWatch – Iran is suspending the agreement with Georgia about visa free travel in connection with a conference of the Non-Aligned Movement.
Georgian citizens who wish to travel to Iran from August 5 to September 1 will need a visa.
Georgia’s Foreign Affairs
TBILISI, DFWatch – A police employee threatened his cousin with a gun because he was a member of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition.
Georgian Dream representatives told DF Watch that the incident took place in the village Orulu near the town Zugdidi in the
TBILISI, DFWatch – The prison ministry on Thursday reported that a prisoner has died at No 18 hospital.
According to the ministry, the prisoner was convicted on June 19, 2012, for possession and sale of drugs.
The cause of death is given as heart attack, the most
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia will hold parliamentary elections on October 1, 2012.
Manana Manjgalade, spokesperson for President Mikheil Saakashvili, said this at a briefing on Wednesday.
She said the president is sure that the October elections will be yet another
TBILISI, DFWatch – A fire in Georgia has burned down more than one thousand hectares of land in the eastern Vashlovani National Park.
The environment minister said the reason for the fire, which started on Monday at about 17:00, was negligence. It has now been
TBILISI, DFWatch –Georgia has lost its 17th soldier in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan.
The Georgian Defense Ministry informs that Givi Pantsulaia, born in 1984, died Saturday at Gori Military Hospital.
“Corporal Givi Pantsuala received injuries
TBILISI, DFWatch – A former public servant who joined an opposition party was released later Friday evening.
The Interior Minister said that Zaza Sopromadze was not arrested, but was only called in to the Prosecutor’s Office as a witness.
Police came
TBILISI, DFWatch – Construction workers rallied in Kutaisi today at the site of the new parliament building they have been employed with constructing, demanding to get paid.
The workers refuse to work until they get their salaries, which they claim they haven’t been
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s National Statistics Department notes growth in the country’s foreign trade turnover in the first half of 2012. Growth is 17 percent more than the same period in 2011 and equals USD 4 866 million.
Georgia is importing more than