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
TBILISI, DFWatch–Rusudan Gotsiridze, Bishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia, has been given the International Women of Courage Award 2014.
The award ceremony was held in Washington DC. Gotsiridze received the award because of her merits in promoting
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili has started working at the old parliament building in Tbilisi.
The speaker explained it was only the first step in a gradual moving process.
“Parliament will be moved back to Tbilisi step by step,” he said,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The presidents of Georgia and Turkey have spoken on phone about the latest events in Ukraine.
President of Turkey, Abdullah Gül, and the Georgian President, Giorgi Margvelashvili, underlined the importance of supporting the territorial integrity
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia says negotiations with the European Union about the schedule and procedures for signing the Association Agreement must be finished in March.
Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said this after meeting with Štefan Füle, European Commissioner
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several hundred people demonstrated Monday near the de facto border with South Ossetia, to highlight the recent resumption of installation of barbed wire by Russian soldiers.
The demonstration was held in the village Atotsi, near the town Kareli.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s defense and foreign ministers on Monday spoke by phone with Ukraine’s acting defense and foreign ministers.
In the phone conversation, Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze expressed deep concern about the events taking place
TBILISI, DFWatch–Emzar Kvitsiani, who was accused of organizing a mutiny in Kodori Valley and has been wanted since 2006, has been detained as he arrived at Tbilisi airport.
Tbilisi City Court placed him in pretrial detention.
Since 2006, police have been offering