Rescue and fire-fighting brigades of the Emergency Situations Service will be working in special regime on the occasion of New Year days. Citizens can call at number 111 to use their service. Members of the groups will be increased.
Preparations for the grand New Year concert, which will be held at renovated Aghmashenebeli Avenue in Tbilisi on the night of December 31, are ongoing. Participants of the gala concert underwent through a rehearsal on the newly-installed stage last evening. Choreographic performances were prepared...
Tbilisi residents will be able to use public transport free of charge on December 31 and January 1 and 2. The initiative belongs to Tbilisi City Hall. Tbilisi Subway will serve passengers till 3 AM on January 1. Traffic limitations will only be imposed at Aghmashenebeli Avenue where various New Year...
An incident has occurred in Tbilisi late last night. 29 year-old Giorgi Mazmishvili stabbed his wife and her sister and then cut himself with a knife. Lika and Khatuna Beradzes have deep injuries in their stomach and breast. Neighbors say Mazmishvili was drunk and the conflict occurred on the grounds...
The Georgian Dance Ensemble `Erisioni` has congratulated the coming New Year to the Georgian armed forces. The dance group was the first to hold the concert in the rehabilitated club of the Defence Ministry. The initiative of dedicating the creative event to the Georgian military servants belongs to...
First Georgian Wine Guide 2012 has emerged on Georgian market. The book was written and published by the president of Georgian Wine Club Malkhaz Kharbedia and it includes detailed information about the history of Georgian wine and the rules of its production. The bilingual guide is available for Georgian...
The United States is committed to free, fair and credible elections in Georgia. Our focus is on the process, and we do not support any particular party or candidate. In that spirit, the United States embassy takes note of the Electoral Code and the amendments to the Law on Political Unions relating to...
A summarizing sitting to wrap up 2011 work was held at Georgia's Chamber of Control today. Levan Bezhashvili, Chairman of Control Chamber discussed various reforms and activities carried out by the institution in 2011. The monitoring of Health and Education programs, hospital sector and the privatization...
At least 17 people died and 80 were injured after an early morning explosion at a warehouse storing gunpowder, likely for use at mine blast sites, in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon, police and fire officials said on Thursday, - Reuters reported. The explosion caused a massive blaze and spewed...
Macedonia plays a constructive role in talks aimed at settling the name dispute with Greece. Athens' economic challenges at home must not be a reason for avoiding to meet the strategic goal of the region - Macedonian integration into EU and NATO, said Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki, who is chairing...
Action movie Fast Five was the most pirated film of 2011, according to file-sharing blog, Torrent Freak. The fifth instalment in the Fast and the Furious film series was downloaded 9.2 million times, figures have shown. In second place was The Hangover II with 8.8 million downloads followed by...
The leader of the Georgian Labour Party Shalva Natelashvili held a summarizing briefing today. Natelashvili says the Labour Party is the only political organization in Georgia, which can defeat the ruling party via elections. Opposition leader stated that the emersion of Bidzina Ivanishvili in Georgian...
Georgian oligarch and politician, who tries to regain Georgian citizenship to launch political activities in homeland, renounced his French citizenship today. Ivanishvili submitted his French passport to the embassy of France today. Bidzina Ivanishvili gave up his Russian citizenship on December 26;...
Unofficial reports say Valmer Butba, one of the most well-known Abkhaz criminal was killed in Abkhazia. Former `law enforcers` of the puppet regime is one of the persons, charged with organizing the terror attack carried out in Batumi on May 5, 2010. One Georgian officer was killed in the terror explosion...
NASA is kicking off the new year by getting twin spacecraft into lunar orbit this weekend. GRAIL, which stands for Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory, is a set of two orbiters that launched on September 10. GRAIL-A will get to its destination of circling the moon on the afternoon of December...
