Tbilisi, DFWatch – American tanks and armored vehicles arrived for joint American–British–Georgian military exercises to be held between 11–25 May.
American heavy military equipment arrived to Georgia for a joint
US Abrams tanks arrived in Georgia
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Patriarch gives blessing to World Congress of Families
TBILISI, DFWatch–Patriarch Ilia II has endorsed a controversial ‘pro family’ congress to be held in Tbilisi in May and is expected to deliver a keynote speech.
The leader of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II gave his blessing to the 10th World Congress of Families which will be held in Tbilisi on May 15-18,
MPs propose making femicide a separate crime
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two MPs from the parliamentary majority have proposed adding to the Criminal Code a separate offense called femicide, which is the premeditated murder of a woman on the basis of her gender.
The bill sets punishment
National Movement accused of hindering visa liberalization
TBILISI, DFWatch–MPs from the parliamentary majority in Georgia accuse members of the National Movement of hindering the process of achieving visa-free travel with the Schengen area.
Georgian Dream members claim that two MPs from the former
Angry neighbors claim 65 year old man wanted to rape 11 year old girl
TBILISI, DFWatch–Over a hundred people in Kobuleti, a town on the Black Sea coast, have surrounded the house of a 65 year old man who they claimed wanted to rape an 11 year old girl.
People gathered outside the house and attempted to break in. They demand
61 more villages abandoned in Georgia in 12 years: Census
TBILISI, DFWatch–There are 223 deserted villages in Georgia, according to the census conducted in 2014 and published last week by the National Statistics Office (GeoStat).
In 2002, when the previous census was conducted,
Georgian soldier dies in Ukraine war
TBILISI, DFWatch–One more Georgian soldier is reported to have died in the war in Ukraine.
Revaz Tsiklauri was reported dead late on Sunday. Tsiklauri died in the town Abievkaa, near Donetsk. A facility he was in was shelled.
Tsiklauri was from the village Lapankuri,
Five persons arrested in Georgia for trying to sell uranium
TBILISI, DFWatch–Five people were arrested April 26 for attempting to sell radioactive uranium for USD 3 million.
Savle Matiashvili, investigator at the counterintelligence service of the State Security Service, said at a briefing on Thursday
Quincy Jones, Macy Gray, Prodigy will play at Black Sea Jazz Festival
TBILISI, DFWatch–Quincy Jones, Macy Gray, the Prodigy are some of the artists to visit the Black Sea Jazz Festival in Georgia in July.
Director of Eastern Promotion, which organizes the festival, said on a press-conference on Thursday that the festival will be held in
