Friday, December 5, 2025

Storm hits Black Sea coast

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The yacht club in Batumi is closed because of a storm. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A storm hit Georgia Sunday evening and is threatening to inflict damage. Rescue personnel are mobilized in several regions of the country.

According to local media, the wind has a speed of 20 meters per second on the Black Sea coast in the Adjara

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Hailstorm victims to get compensation

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The storm in Georgia in July 2012 ripped the roof off many houses. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The victims of a hailstorm in Georgia last summer will finally get compensation, ranging from USD 3 600 to USD 4 800.

Davit Narmania, Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure, said Monday that the loss was estimated in such extreme

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Another hailstorm wipes out crops in Georgia

As in July, the storm showered villages with unusually large hail stones, wiping out vital crops. (IPN.)

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

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Georgia compensates storm victims – one month late

People crowding a field branch of Liberty Bank to get compensation for damages by the storm. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian government has started paying compensation to people affected by a hailstorm almost a month ago.

People in about 40 villages lost their harvest, livestock, a majority of houses are roofless or totally destroyed.

Today, local media

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Kaladze and Ivanishvili may pay new fines to help storm victims

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Many are still without a place to live after the storm July 19. (Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition and his partner, a former AC Milan player, are ready to give more money to the state to assist people who suffered losses due to a hailstorm on July 19.

The storm seriously damaged villages in

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Details of emergency funds spending presented

Finance minister Dimitry Gvindadze explained what the emergency funds have been spent on. The government has had to rearrange this year's budget to finance rescue work after a storm. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – “Everything which is not secret, is public”. This is how the Georgian finance minister answers the opposition, who demand to know what the reserve funds have been spent on.

The two reserve funds, one controlled by the government and the other by

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Georgian Dream demands more transparency in crisis funds

Demonstrators demand that the Saakashvili government reveals what the emergency funds have been spent on. A storm struck eastern Georgia last week, and the government has had to reallocate money from other parts of the budget to handle the situation. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia, the main opposition bloc Georgian Dream accuses the government of having recklessly spent the state reserve funds, set apart to handle disasters.

According to law, the two crisis funds, one controlled by the government and

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