Tbilisi, DFWatch – Adjarian villagers who on Saturday protested construction of a hydro-power plant and were dispersed by the police achieved agreement with the government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara.
Negotiations started at 03:00 am in the morning
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Saturday broke up a protest in a village where a Norwegian company wants to build a hydro power plant.
About two hundred policemen were mobilized to break through a road block put up by villagers in Ghurta, in the south western Adjara
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Council decided to write the 2014 budget themselves, after refusing twice to pass drafts proposed by City Hall.
The capital’s executive government is staffed by people from Saakashvili’s National Movement, but the city council is dominated
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four tourists have died in an avalanche in Ushguli, a village in the Upper Svaneti region, north in Georgia.
According to the local government in Mestia, two German and two French tourists have died.
One French tourist survived. His health is in no
TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Russia’s deployment of military forces in Crimea, which it says is a threat to all of Europe.
The resolution says Georgia became a victim of Russian military aggression in the war in 2008,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili claims former President Mikheil Saakashvili is being used as an adviser by the new interim authorities in Ukraine.
Appearing on a TV show Wednesday evening, he warned Ukrainian leaders not to trust the
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Russian military helicopter violated Georgian air space on Thursday.
The helicopter, which was of the type Mi-8, flew over an area in the vicinity of the towns Gori and Kaspi, according to Georgia’s Foreign Ministry.
According to the ministry, the helicopter took
TBILISI, DFWatch–The strike among mine workers in western Georgia is continuing.
Workers in the coal mines in Chiatura demand better conditions and higher salaries, both of which they were promised over a year ago at the end of an extensive protest.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has brought in new charges against a lawyer representing former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia.
Prosecutors have already charged Goga Oniani, a former police official, with harassing a man printing t-shirts
TBILISI, DFWatch–Vegetable prices are on course to a 46.6 % projected annual increase in Georgia, new figures from the National Statistics Department, GeoStat, show.
Georgia’s monthly inflation rate was 0.2 percent in February, according to the new report.
In February