TBILISI, DFWatch – Another storm hit the former Soviet republic of Georgia Sunday in what has become the most stormy year in recent memory. The storm completely or partly destroyed the harvest in villages in a number of regions in the east of the country.
Sunday
TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition coalition in Georgia will no longer be allowed to receive donations from persons who partly or fully receive financing from its leader Bidzina Ivanishvili or companies related to him.
The State Audit Office informs that
TBILISI, DFWatch – Political parties in Georgia are ready to agree with rules of conduct prepared by the campaign This Affects You Too intended to secure a peaceful, fair and competitive electoral environment before the October 1 parliamentary election.
The ruling
TBILISI, DFWatch – Riccardo Migliori, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, will arrive in Georgia for the election period, together with a delegation from the OSCE.
According to parliament’s press office, the delegation will arrive on August 19 and hold
TBILISI, DFWatch – The inter-agency commission tasked with monitoring the election process calls on local governments not to place party symbols in their offices, as this is a violation of law.
Tamar Kintsurashvili, a member of the commission, said on Monday
TBILISI, DFWatch – Police have arrested a man accused of beating a cameraman working for an opposition affiliated media outlet.
The man has been sentenced to twenty days in jail.
The incident took place August 15 in front of the municipality building in
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian rescue workers have conducted three separated operations to save foreign climbers stuck in the Georgian mountains.
One Russian climber slipped when he was going out of his tent. He fell down from the cliff and died. The other two in his
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian archeologists have discovered ruins a basilica type three-nave church from the fifth or sixth century in eastern Georgia.
The ruins cover an area 40 meter long and 16 meter wide, and were found in Kakheti, on the right bank of River Duruji,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the largest opposition coalition in Georgia has asked to launch an arbitration case with the Georgian state at the World Bank.
On August 15, the 14-day term ended for the government to admit it committed illegalities and to achieve
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s trade deficit continued to increase from January to July 2012, but the country’s foreign trade turnover increased by 18 percent compared to last year and amounted to USD 5 761 million.
Georgia’s national statistics department GeoStat