Miners continue to strike in Tkibuli, Imereti region of Georgia. 45 miners are on strike down in a mine, an InterpressNews correspondent reports.

‘He Noted that NATO Will Trust and Understand All of the New Government’s actions‘

Since NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen was “extremely concerned” over recent arrests of “political opponents” of new government in Georgia, PM Bidzina Ivanishvili offers NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to send a team to Georgia that would monitor ongoing investigation into criminal charges brought against former defense minister and two former senior army commanders.

Minority leaders Pavle Kublashvili, Goga Khachidze, Irma Nadirashvili and Tetritskaro majoritarian MP Davit Bezhuashvili went to Tetritskaro municipality local government.

Georgia’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs Salome Zurabishvili writes in Facebook that neither Georgia’s ambassador in EU Salome Samadashvili or permanent representative to NATO Gega Mgaloblishvili met Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili in Brussels.

It is the third day of strike of yellow bus drivers in Tbilisi. As one of the drivers told InterPressNews, part of the drivers are invited to the City Assembly today to find solution to the issue, meeting with the MPs will be held.

The alternative mechanism for monitoring of the penitentiary system is being discussed by the initiation of the Ministry of Legal Assistance and Corrections at the Radisson hotel. The meeting was opened by Minister of Legal Assistance and Corrections Sozar Subari.

Lately the refugees have tried to break in different residences. They demand their problems connected basically to shelters to be solved as soon as possible. Public movement Solidarity and its leader Davit Tsiramua who is a refugee and Abkhazia War participant himself, called on the IDPs to observe the law and wait until the new government studies the situation and takes concrete steps to help them.

As fallible human beings, we usually trip into the bottomless pit of assessing others in a condemnatory fashion, oblivious to our own failings. The truth of the matter is that we’ve all judged, and been judged more often than we realize. I’ve been recently touched by the wickedness, from a girl who was thought to radiate her unwavering convictions everywhere she went. She exhibited them through her modest clothing and style, her sleek black hair always pulled back so tightly it could’ve ripped her scalp off any minute.

National Bureau of Enforcement confirms that 79.710,021,60 GEL transferred to the account of the national bureau of enforcement by Bidzina Ivanishvili as a fine has not been spent and on the grounds of the order of the bureau chairman on 18 October 2012, the money has been returned to Bidzina Ivanishvili, a statement from the bureau of enforcement reads.

The Deputy Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, Gia Kavtaradze, has resigned. He released a statement in this regard.

Bidzina Ivanishvili calls on Mikheil Saakashvili to use the presidential residence of the chancellery. As Ivanishvili told journalists after the governmental sitting, a lot of funding is spent on serving the president, which is unacceptable.

The Situation is tensed in village Nigvziani, Lanchkhuti region. As a correspondent of InterPressNews informs, the locals don’t allow the Muslims from Adjara to pray.

‘My aim is restoration of justice, not returning of the company’ – declares Mamia Sanadiradze, founder and ex-holder of the control package of ‘Caucasus Online’ Company who came back from London several days ago. According to him the aim of his return is to begin investigation of the organized crime that was committed against him in 2009. In the interview he speaks about the reason that made the control-package-holder sell his share. 

Head of the Georgian MIA patrol division Goga Grigalashvili has resigned. As head of the MIA press service Salome Makharadze told InterPressNews Grigalashvili left the Ministry of Internal Affairs.