TBILISI, DFWatch–Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Tuesday provided details about a several month long investigation into two jihad videos posted on Youtube a few months ago with threats against Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan.
His comments were a response
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s estimated real GDP growth rate amounted to 1.1 percent in August 2013. For the first eight months of 2013, the same figure was 1.6 percent, according to Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
GeoStat’s monthly rapid estimates
TBILISI, DFWatch–The EU Monitoring Mission to Georgia Tuesday expressed concern about the installation of barbed wire by Russian soldiers in the villages Dvani and Ditsi at the border line around the breakaway region South Ossetia.
Toivo Klaar, the new head of EUMM,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Local and international human rights organizations are to examine the footage of prisoner abuse, one year after it created a firestorm of criticism in Georgia.
A handful of videos were leaked to the media by a former prison guard less than two weeks
TBILISI, DFWatch–53 election precincts will be open at locations abroad for Georgians there who want to vote in the presidential election on October 27.
According to the Central Election Commission, the highest number of precincts will be in Greece
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new 154 kilovolt transmission line will be built between Georgia and Turkey.
Energy Minister Kakhi Kaladze and Nikolay Nikolov, Vice Director of Energo-Pro Georgia signed the memorandum of understanding Monday.
A memorandum was first signed in 2009,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The organization Droa protested outside Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s business center Monday evening, installing barbed wires at the entrance.
Police prohibited them from blocking the road with wires, so they placed them on the side walk.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The two Georgian breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia will not take part in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as independent nations.
Georgia’s National Olympic Committee has received a letter from the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man attempted to set himself on fire at a protest rally in front of Tbilisi City Hall on Monday.
Pouring gasoline over himself, the man said he has nothing in this world and there is no point in living.
Protesters and police managed to stop him and took
TBILISI, DFWatch–81 companies have received and produced the highest amounts of grapes for decades, according to the Agriculture Ministry: 80 097.6 tons of grapes have already been processed this season. Last year, the number was 52 000 tons.
Of Saperavi, one of the