TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of tourists grew by 56 percent in 2012, according to the National Tourism Administration. 4 389 256 tourists visited Georgia last year.
In the period from January to May 2013, the number of tourists was 1 698 146, which is an increase of
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement on Saturday named four candidates for the party’s primary election to select as candidate for the upcoming presidential election in October.
Party spokesman Giorgi Vashadze presented the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals attacked and beat the wife of the Hajji in the village Samtatskharo Friday, only weeks after the religious conflict there seemed to have been solved.
Locals had earlier prevented Muslims from conducting Friday prayer for three weeks, but the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The United National Movement has announced that its election campaign will be launched on June 30.
UNM member Giorgi Vashadze said on Friday that the party will name all its candidates, who will then participate in a primary election to select
TBILISI, DFWatch–Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement has again suspended work in parliament, due to the recent detentions of the Tbilisi City Hall and Council officials.
Levan Bezhashvili, member of the UNM, on Friday said that their decision
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the Georgian government to conduct a ‘prompt investigation’ of the violence on May 17 2013.
30 persons were injured that day, as radical clerics and their supporters prevented LGBT
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO envoy James Appathurai says he is ‘a bit concerned by the level of mistrust’ between Georgia’s government and opposition.
Appathurai, whose full title is NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The investigative service of the Finance Ministry on Thursday morning detained 22 employees of Tbilisi City Hall and Tbilisi City Council. They were released in the evening, and then four of them were again detained.
After the first detentions,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Heavy rain hit the Georgian capital Thursday evening with hail in some of districts. Rain flooded the first floors of houses and underground pedestrian tunnels.
In some districts of Tbilisi there was a short hailstorm. Interpressnews reports that
TBILISI, DFWatch–About 24 000 families who lost a member while doing military service will get increased compensation according to a new initiative, which will be presented to parliament on Friday.
The proposed bill will amend the law on the status of a military servant