TBILISI, DFWatch – There are two articles in Georgia’s Labor Code which entitles employers to terminate a labor contract without giving any explanations or preliminary warnings.
A teacher from a village in the Gori region was fired because of her husband’s political
TBILISI, DFWatch – A celebration of the international day for the fight against homophobia Thursday turned violent as demonstrators were beaten and posters torn.
Members of the two organizations LGBT Georgia and Identoba and their supporters held the event in front of
TBILISI, DFWatch – Money transfers from foreign countries to Georgia increased 6.4 percent in April, compared to the same period in 2011.
There was also an increase in money transferred abroad in April, compared to last year, according to Georgia’s National Bank.
TBILISI, DFWatch – A man Thursday set himself on fire at the parliament building because the government hasn’t helped him.
Parliament employees managed to put out the fire. Then police and firemen arrived and arrested Giorgi Chikhladze. He did not resist arrest.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The recently founded Channel 9 TV, which is affiliated with Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream party, has bought a ten percent share in a popular regional television station, TV Trialeti, for one million dollars.
Channel 9 Director Kakha Bekauri
TBILISI, DFWatch – In a new report, the EU Commission criticizes Georgia’s government for the police brutality on May 26, 2011.
The criticism comes as the Commission is taking stock of how well each country has performed in 2011 under a democracy building
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia is doing away with a law which guaranteed the public access to information about public officials.
This means that details about the income, expenses and social benefits of public persons will remain unknown to the public.
Openness in this
TBILISI, DFWatch – Giorgi Targamadze (pictured) is one of the sources for a new report former EU Ambassador to Georgia Per Eklund is writing about the election environment ahead of the parliamentary elections in October.
Eklund met with the Christian Democrats parliamentary
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first four months of 2012 grew 18 percent compared to the same period in 2011.
Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, reported on Wednesday that preliminary figures for January-April 2012 show that
TBILISI, DFWatch – Opposition representatives in Georgia say the flood that took five lives Sunday could have been prevented.
The discussion led to a street scuffle between a district governor and an opposition party representative.
Besik Gazdeliani, Deputy Governor