TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Georgian deputy interior minister who is affiliated with a violent police operation in August, 2012, is to be appointed head of the Ukrainian Interior Ministry’s branch in Odessa.
Gia Lortkipanidze served under President Mikheil Saakashvili when he
TBILISI, DFWatch–One more former Georgian government official is to be appointed to a high position in the new Ukrainian government, a Ukrainian media outlet reports.
According to Unian.net, Gia Lortkipanidze may be appointed as head of the Interior Ministry Department in Odessa.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A 23 year old Georgian double amputee has broken his own world record for planche push-ups.
Corporal Temur Dadiani lost both legs in 2011 while serving in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan.
Sunday, he managed to do 44 push-ups in one minute; 8 more
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s ruling coalition agrees to some changes in the election system, but won’t scrap the so-called majoritarian system, a demand by NGOs and opposition parties.
By postponing the removal of the ‘majoritarian‘ system, the coalition heeded the advice
TBILISI, DFWatch–An official working in the National Probation Agency died Friday night after an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Besik Tskhadadze, head of the National Probation Agency’s Tbilisi bureau, was taken to the Republican Hospital but died
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says he once planned to arrest Kadagidze due to ‘personal’ business, but changed his mind by request of representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The revelation comes after weeks of criticism
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili suggests naming Tbilisi airport after Shota Rustaveli, a 12th to 13th century Georgian poet.
Garibashvili wants to name the airport, currently known as Alekseevka, after Rustaveli in connection with the poet’s 850 year anniversary
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government is reviving one of its election promises from 2012: to restore justice. Property taken from five people during Saakashvili’s presidency will be returned.
Before coming to power, Georgian Dream promised that they would ‘restore justice.’
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several pupils fell ill at a Tbilisi schools Wednesday and had to be taken to the hospital. Their health condition is currently satisfactory, but it is still unknown what caused their illness.
The incident happened at Public School No 139, where ten fifth grade
