TBILISI, DFWatch–A majority of Tbilisi City Council has voted for expanding the city budget by 17 million lari (USD 10.2 million) to 740 million lari (USD 445 million) — a four percent increase.
Mayor Gigi Ugulava from the former ruling National Movement party
TBILISI, DFWatch–TV9, a channel affiliated with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, went off air on Monday. It had earelier announced that it would close on September 1.
The news program at 21:00 was its final broadcast, with News Director Luba Eliashvili saying goodbye
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several families have been forced from their homes in Ozurgeti, in Georgia’s western Guria region, due to a landslide.
Valerian Chitashvili, governor of Guria, told journalists that two days of heavy rains in the region accelerated the landslides
TBILISI, DFWatch–Channel 9, a TV company affiliated with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, is to be closed from September 1.
Luba Eliashvili, chairman of the TV company’s news division, explained that for the last ten months they have been looking for new owners
TBILISI, DFWatch–22 families are cut off from the outside world due to flood in the village Chanchati, in Georgia’s western Guria region.
Gulnara Chichua, government trustee in the village, told journalists that the flood also has affected other villages in Guria,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A conflict of unknown nature has developed between Kists and local Georgian youth in Pankisi Valley, which lies in the northeast of Georgia, at the foot of the Caucasus mountains.
No-one is injured, but the situation is tense and the Interior
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Black Sea resort Ureki was flooded after heavy rain on Sunday. Part of the population is leaving the place and requesting help from the government.
Tens of houses were flooded, and a landslide has blocked the roads.
Kote Sharashenidze,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court releasing six policemen on bail who were detained for fabricating evidence to build a case against Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili’s father-in-law, Tamaz Tamazashvili.
The six are charged with planting a weapon on
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former defense minister Irakli Okruashvili was Saturday briefly detained by French police after a scuffle with another Georgian politician, former MP Merab Samadashvili.
The scuffle took place at Nice airport. Okruashvili was later released by airport police.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Law enforcers are considering another charge against former Interior Minister Bacho Akhalaia and want to question him about the murder of Sandro Girgvliani in 2006.
Tbilisi Prosecutor Maya Mtsariashvili told journalists that in the course of the