TBILISI, DFWatch–The new party Socialist Georgia canceled its founding congress on Thursday, after a quarrel with a protester led to the arrest of one of its members.
The assembly was planned held at the music school
in Telavi, a town in the eastern Kakheti region.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A historical park in the southern Georgian resort town Borjomi was partly destroyed by flooding Thursday evening.
Strong rain flooded houses and streets and trees more than a hundred years old were torn down. Infrastructure was damaged.
TBILISI, DFWatch–In a small town in the south of Georgia, a disagreement between two politicians’ families resulted in the death of a 23-year-old man on July 30.
The confrontation took place in the village Nardevani, in the Kvemo Kartli region. The families Tamarian
TBILISI, DFWatch–One person was detained in western Georgia on Thursday, after a fight broke out in front of the local branch office of the National Movement (UNM).
Protesters from the organization Our Homeland burned an effigy of ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The incident took place this morning in the village Kveshi, according to Gori municipality.
Locals say 36-year-old Aleko Sheverdashvili was in his garden when armed men came and took him away. They say Sheverdashvili didn’t cross the administrative
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian prime minister on Thursday promised to change the Constitution so that it specifies marriage as a union between a man and a woman — if his party wins an absolute majority in the October 8 election.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The rape of a pregnant 16-year-old girl two weeks ago may go unpunished, because the alleged rapist is not in detention, a human rights group claims.
July 8, a 16-year-old married and pregnant girl was raped at knifepoint in Marneuli,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A clothes market was partly destroyed by fire in Zestaponi Tuesday night.
According to the Emergency Service, more than 1,000 square meters was destroyed by the fire in the center of the western Georgian town.
No one was injured.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A bid to define marriage in the Constitution as a union between a man and a woman has been approved by Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) after campaigners collected more than the required 200,000 signatures.
Georgia’s Civil Code already