TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has seven new ambassadors abroad, after President Giorgi Margvelashvili last week signed their appointment.
The new ambassadors are the ones to Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Germany, Japan, China, Iran and Jordan.
According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili has managed to convince the government to amend a disputed passage in a draft bill about local government reform, as promised.
The government prepared a draft law to regulate the country’s territorial
TBILISI, DFWatch–The amount of direct foreign investments in the third quarter of 2013 was USD 239 million, up three percent from the second quarter.
Investments in third quarter of 2013 was 20 percent more than the same period last year.
Foreign investments
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has charged prisoners and prison administration employees with causing the death of Levan Kortava, who was allegedly killed by the so-called thieves in law inside prison.
Kortava died May 23, 2013, at the prison hospital,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two persons have died after a roof of a greenhouse collapsed in Georgia because of bad weather.
The accident happened Monday evening in the village Salibauri in the Adjara region and was caused by strong wind and heavy snowfall.
Two women, aged 35
TBILISI, DFWatch–The parties in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war Monday discussed the installation of warning signs and fences in the villages Ghogheti and Bershueti on the border to the breakaway region South Ossetia.
This was the 40th meeting of the Incident Prevention
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Airways will offer direct flights between Tbilisi and the Olympic village Sochi from February 4, 2014, in connection with the upcoming Winter Games.
There will be flights between Tbilisi and Sochi every Tuesday and Thursday until May.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch–155 000 households are left without electricity in Georgia, according to the Energy Ministry.
Deputy Energy Minister Irakli Khmaladze said at a briefing that the bad weather has created problems mainly in the regions in the west of Georgia, and that the damage is caused by snow and blizzard.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Supporters of the protesters in Ukraine gathered Sunday in Tbilisi to support a mass mobilization in the Ukrainian capital.
The gathering outside the former parliament building started at 14:00, the same time as the demonstration in Ukraine.
Georgians
TBILISI, DFWatch–Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia ask the government for answers about the construction of Khudoni hydro power station. There are many questions regarding environmental and social issues.
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and an