Month: August 2015 - Page 9

Search continues for three still missing after Tbilisi flood

August 4, 2015 by DFWatch staff

search_for_missing_Tbilisi_flood — (police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The search is still ongoing for three persons who went missing in a massive flood in Tbilisi in the night of June 13-14.

19 persons have been confirmed dead. Employees of the Interior Ministry’s emergency service have been looking

Eka Beselia calls for more leniency for Georgia's women inmates

August 3, 2015 by DFWatch staff

eka_beselia_pirveli_Crop — Eka Beselia is head of parliament’s human rights committee. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A leading parliamentarian from Georgia’s ruling coalition asks the president to consider pardoning or easing the sentences of more women.

Eka Beselia, head of the human rights committee in parliament, said in a speech

Nino Burjanadze declared 'persona non grata' by Ukraine

August 3, 2015 by DFWatch staff

nino_burjanadze_2 — Nino Burjanadze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Nino Burjanadze, former speaker of the Georgian parliament who twice served as acting president, has been declared ‘persona non grata’ by Ukraine, according to a Tbilisi-based radio station.

The reason is Burjanadze’s statements about Crimea

Number of visitors to Georgia in July up 9.5% from 2014

August 3, 2015 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–The number of visitors to Georgia in the month of July was 9.5 percent higher than in the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

According to the MIA’s monthly report, 737,696 people visited Georgia in July.

Nuclear deal opens up business opportunities for Iran and Georgia

August 3, 2015 by DFW-admin

mohammad_reza — Mohammad Reza Noruzi is PhD in Public Policy and Assistant Professor at Tarbiat Modarres University, Tehran, and a policy adviser for the private sector in Iran.

After a landmark deal with the P5+1 group in Vienna, a window to the world will open up for Iran. Iranians are set to start a new era of cooperation with important global businesses in many fields.

This is bound to affect many of Iran’s economic sectors positively,

Gali women still suffer from conflict-related gender inequality

August 3, 2015 by DFWatch staff

2015-07-04 21 — A child’s drawing on the wall inside a school in a village in Tqvarcheli region (Dominik K. Cagara)

Maia Kvarachelia from Gali-based NGO Avangard tells DF Watch about the gender-related issues the region has been facing since the end of the war in Abkhazia.

The conflict in Abkhazia has left its mark on the population of the

Georgian PM names Giorgi Mgebrishvili as new interior minister

August 3, 2015 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili wants Prison Minister Giorgi Mgebrishvili to become new interior minister. The position is vacant after a reform that splits the interior ministry, creating a new Security Service.

Mgebrishvili