TBILISI, DFWatch–In his New Year’s speech, Georgia’s new prime minister promised a better future for families in 2016.
PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili wished everyone peace, good health and well-being.
“Happy New Year to all of you who work
TBILISI, DFWatch–A female police officer who was injured in a shooting on Wednesday in Telavi died later the same day.
Maia Javakhishvili was injured during a shooting in front of a police station, while her partner, Captain Gela Lamazoshvili, died on the spot.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Part of the capital’s waste collectors and street sweepers went on strike on Wednesday morning, demanding a 50 percent pay increase.
Employees showed up today at the office of Tbilservice, the company responsible for keep Tbilisi clean.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of the breakaway region South Ossetia has ordered a proposal to be put before the elected assembly about changing the entity’s name to South Ossetia – Alania.
Along with the proposed name change, a referendum
TBILISI, DFWatch–A citizens’ appeal to pardon former Tbilisi mayor Gigi Ugulava has been rejected by President Giorgi Margvelashvili.
Ugulava has been in detention since July 2014. His supporters argue that there have been committed several violations
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tarkhan Batirashvili, a.k.a. Abu Omar al-Shishani, a notorious IS field commander from Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge, was reportedly seized by Kurdish and American commandos in Northern Iraq on Friday.
Abu Omar’s arrest was reported by the Russian
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s High Council of Justice on Friday appointed a new judge to the Appeals Court who was criticized as one of the court officials who decided to go easy on of those involved in the murder of a bank employee in 2006.
The murder of Sandro Girgvliani
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Finance Ministry’s investigation service have detained a group of ten people for manufacturing fake credit cards and stealing more than 1.5 million laris.
Investigators describe the case as ‘a large-scale international crime.’ The ten are suspected of illegally
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president pardoned 238 prisoners on Friday, 18 of whom were women and three minors.
According to Zviad Koridze, head of the president’s pardon commission, 172 prisoners will leave jail today. 11 of them are women and two are minors.