TBILISI, DFWatch–An official working in the National Probation Agency died Friday night after an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
Besik Tskhadadze, head of the National Probation Agency’s Tbilisi bureau, was taken to the Republican Hospital but died
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says he once planned to arrest Kadagidze due to ‘personal’ business, but changed his mind by request of representatives of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The revelation comes after weeks of criticism
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili suggests naming Tbilisi airport after Shota Rustaveli, a 12th to 13th century Georgian poet.
Garibashvili wants to name the airport, currently known as Alekseevka, after Rustaveli in connection with the poet’s 850 year anniversary
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government is reviving one of its election promises from 2012: to restore justice. Property taken from five people during Saakashvili’s presidency will be returned.
Before coming to power, Georgian Dream promised that they would ‘restore justice.’
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several pupils fell ill at a Tbilisi schools Wednesday and had to be taken to the hospital. Their health condition is currently satisfactory, but it is still unknown what caused their illness.
The incident happened at Public School No 139, where ten fifth grade
TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of visitors to Georgia in May, 2015, was 14.7 percent more than in the same month last year.
According to the Interior Ministry, the number of people crossing the border in May was 454,545.
In the first five months of 2015, the total number of people
Tbilisi, DFWatch – A group of Georgian artists, invited to perform a play about immigration in the international theater festival in the UK, got their visa applications rejected. Mareike Wentzel is a German actress and performance artist, who frequently visits Georgia and works on various art projects here. She was the one to encourage her … Read more
Tbilisi, DFWatch – At least 13 dogs drowned in flood on Wednesday night in Tbilisi at Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s dog shelter.
A heavy rain flooded river Vere and the water flushed the shelter’s ground floor.
Patrol police crew and several employees came at the shelter at night to help the pets, but some of the dogs had already been swept away.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s public defender recommends amending the Civil Code so that only the courts may give permission for 16 to 18 year olds to marry.
The public defender has prepared a draft bill which was submitted to parliament on May 25.
Youth between 16 to 18 may
TBILISI, DFWatch–Hundreds of mostly young people gathered outside the government office in Tbilisi, Georgia, Tuesday to demand the decriminalization of marijuana.
The annual protest brought together youth, politicians, journalists, non-governmental organizations and others.