TBILISI, DFWatch–Hunters in Georgia have discovered an illegal slaughterhouse close to the village Kumisi, not far from the capital Tbilisi.
The hunters claim donkeys are secretly killed there and cut in a way as not to recognize the origin of the meat. Later it is
TBILISI, DFWatch–Hungary has recognized Georgia’s neutral passports, which are issued to people living in the breakaway territories Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Hungary made a decision on November 29, 2013, and it came to force yesterday.
The so-called neutral
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia rejects reports that Russian military jets recently violated Georgian airspace.
A few days ago, local media reported that five Russian SU-27s and one IL-76 crossed Georgia on January 10 and landed near the Armenian capital
TBILISI, DFWatch–Muslims in Georgia will from now on have two muftis instead of one. This was decided at a session of the Administration of Muslims of all Georgia on January 9.
Jemal Paksadze, who used to be the Mufti of all Georgia, from now on will be mufti of
TBILISI, DFWatch–The World Bank expects Georgia to have 6.3 percent economic growth in 2014.
The estimate was published in the Bank’s Global Economic Prospects 2014, which reads that the prognosis for economic growth in Georgia in 2014 is 6.3.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The president and the secretary of the Venice Commission will visit Georgia on January 16.
Gianni Buquicchio and Thomas Markert will meet with Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili on Thursday and members of the constitution commission, which is
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government plans to create an Entrepreneurship Development Agency to spur the growth of business.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said this on Wednesday during a meeting with representatives of the business
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Hall asks the City Council to solve the problem of approving the 2014 city budget.
The Council failed to approve the budget on December 29, which means that City Hall is only allowed to spend up to one twelfth of the size of last year’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prison Ministry in Georgia says it did not notice anything interesting while looking into claims made by former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili that he was taken out of his cell at night and threatened by the chief prosecutor.
The ministry’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is listed in 22nd place on the Index of Economic Freedom, a ranking which includes 178 countries worldwide.
The list was published Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation and shows Georgia in 22nd place with 72.6 points.
According to the report,