TBILISI, DFWatch — Workers in the mining town Chiatura are keeping up a several weeks’ long protest. Part of them have moved to the capital to rally outside government bodies and the owning company’s offices.
The parliamentary election gave hope to workers all over
TBILISI, DFWatch — The president of the Georgian Bank Association says the interest rate on loans will go down.
Zurab Gvasalia said there is already a trend of falling interest rates on loans, but he thinks it is impossible to decrease the rates immediately.
In
TBILISI, DFWatch — Prime Minister Ivanishvili has established a new position as Georgia’s special representative for Russian relations and appointed Georgia’s former Russia ambassador to the post.
Ivanishvili said at a press conference Thursday that the country
TBILISI, DFWatch — The former ruling party accuses the new government of blackmailing and harassment, while the new government officials ask them to present evidence.
The claims were described at a briefing in the National Movement party’s
TBILISI, DFWatch — New candidates have been unveiled for deputy ministers in the new government.
Despite an offer from Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to previous deputy ministers that they may remain in their positions, only a few of them have stayed.
Those
TBILISI, DFWatch — Prisoners in a prison south of Tbilisi Wednesday protested, demanding the new director’s resignation.
Prisoners claim that the director Levan Aburjania, a former policeman, threatened them with torture.
Shortly before the new prison minister was approved by the new parliament,
Tbilisi, DFWatch — The new government wants to solve the problems for different groups in society that have broken into abandoned buildings recently.
Davit Sergenko, new health minister, said Wednesday that the government is taking action to solve problems that socially vulnerable
TBILISI, DFWatch — The current parliamentary minority, which is made up of a party that governed Georgia for the last eight years, demand to have the position as chair of parliament’s temporary investigative commission.
The minority introduced a draft law in
TBILISI, DFWatch — The former owner of a telecommunication company claims that the company was under serious pressure, because he refused to install listening devices.
Caucasus Online is one of the biggest telecommunication companies in Georgia. Its former owner,
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian TV viewers will get a new channel in the near future, to be produced by the owners of the magazine Tabula.
The new channel will be focused on news and will probably go on air in January 2013.
The editor of the new channel will be Tabula