TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili will visit Turkey on January 20.
According to the president’s administration, he has planned meetings with President Abdullah Gül in Ankara and also the prime minister and speaker of parliament.
TBILISI, DFWatch–People Friday demonstrated in front of Tbilisi City Hall against a private company’s plans to build a new hotel inside the publicly owned Vake Park in the capital.
Behind the project is Tiflis Development Company, and the hotel is planned at the location
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man presenting himself as a king has appealed to the Georgian government for better protection of his fellow countrymen after a Nigerian was brutally attacked in Tbilisi.
Richard Arize, presented by Rustavi 2 as a king of Igbo-Ukwu, a town in
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Bank of Georgia plans to tighten its monetary policy in case the fall in the exchange rate of lari sets off an inflation.
After falling in value for several months, the Georgian lari (GEL) is now rated at 1.7421 against the US dollar.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Patriarch’s Christmas epistle continues to cause controversy in Georgia. Not only in vitro fertilization and the use of surrogate mothers, but also what he wrote about sexual minorities.
“It’s a pity that minority groups, that have sharply
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia is bringing in tougher rules for falsely reporting a terrorist attack or a bomb.
The Administrative Violations Code of Georgia will now define stricter punishment for those who report false information to the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia does not plan to review its policy towards the mafia, but the head of the judiciary committee in parliament says the laws targeting criminal organizations are vague.
One of the stated priorities of former president Mikheil
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia says the overall crime level dropped by one fourth in 2013 compared to the preceding year, although the number of new criminal investigations grew by 40 percent.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs’s latest crime statistics
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court Thursday fined three people detained at a rally the day before and fined them 100 lari (USD 60). A fourth detainee received a verbal warning.
All four were detained on Wednesday as two opposing protest rallies outside the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless (OFPRA) has listed Georgia as one of the countries considered safe at the national level.
This means that people from Georgia who seek asylum in France cannot receive it easily, only in