Press Scanner
Compiled by Eter Tsotniashvili
Thursday, July 24
“Bus burned on Melikishvili Avenue”
A bus caught fire on a main thoroughfare but injured no one, Akhali Taoba reports:
“On July 22 bus No. 39 burned on Melikishvili Avenue. There were not many passengers on the bus at the time and none were injured. All passengers managed to leave the bus in time.
There were ambulances at the scene but passengers did not need medical attention. Despite great efforts from firefighters the whole bus was burned.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. The bus driver said that everyday the buses are checked before they start operating and he ruled out technical faults.”
“Iakob Gogebashvili starts school building”
Sakartvelos Respublika reports on repair work in Georgian schools:
“Building repairs on 230 schools has started in Georgia.
Education Minister Ghia Nodia visited Public School No. 200 along with the head of the infrastructure development department, Ekaterine Tugushi, to observe repair works.
The minister said that more than GEL 53 million is being spent on the construction and repair of schools.
Nodia said that around GEL 600 000 will be spent on School No. 200 where 150 schoolchildren will study from September onwards under the program ‘Iakob Gogebashvili.’
In 2008 repair work on public schools No. 59 and No. 169 will be finished and the construction of nine new schools will be completed.
Between 2006 and 2007 a total of 478 schools were built and 32 schools were built as part of the Iakob Gogebashvili program.
Nodia said that by 2011 every school in Georgia will have been upgraded.”
“Kvitsiani does not want more enemies”
Notorious tabloid Alia writes on recent supposed comments from Georgian warlord Emzar Kvitsiani who was ousted from Kodori Gorge in a Georgian police operation in 2006:
“Former president’s envoy in Kodori Gorge Emzar Kvitsiani has denied participating in planning to take Upper Abkhazia by storm.
According to a source, de facto Abkhazian defense minister Merab Kishmaria contacted Kvitsiani, who is based in a Russian city, and asked him to participate in an operation that is planned at the beginning of August by separatists.
According to the Russian-Abkhazian plan Kvitsiani and his allies would stage a rebellion in Kodori Gorge under the guise of trying to release Svaneti residents [from Tbilisi’s control] but this would be only propaganda.
According to the same source Kvitsiani categorically denied any participation in the plan.”
A bus caught fire on a main thoroughfare but injured no one, Akhali Taoba reports:
“On July 22 bus No. 39 burned on Melikishvili Avenue. There were not many passengers on the bus at the time and none were injured. All passengers managed to leave the bus in time.
There were ambulances at the scene but passengers did not need medical attention. Despite great efforts from firefighters the whole bus was burned.
The cause of the fire is not yet known. The bus driver said that everyday the buses are checked before they start operating and he ruled out technical faults.”
“Iakob Gogebashvili starts school building”
Sakartvelos Respublika reports on repair work in Georgian schools:
“Building repairs on 230 schools has started in Georgia.
Education Minister Ghia Nodia visited Public School No. 200 along with the head of the infrastructure development department, Ekaterine Tugushi, to observe repair works.
The minister said that more than GEL 53 million is being spent on the construction and repair of schools.
Nodia said that around GEL 600 000 will be spent on School No. 200 where 150 schoolchildren will study from September onwards under the program ‘Iakob Gogebashvili.’
In 2008 repair work on public schools No. 59 and No. 169 will be finished and the construction of nine new schools will be completed.
Between 2006 and 2007 a total of 478 schools were built and 32 schools were built as part of the Iakob Gogebashvili program.
Nodia said that by 2011 every school in Georgia will have been upgraded.”
“Kvitsiani does not want more enemies”
Notorious tabloid Alia writes on recent supposed comments from Georgian warlord Emzar Kvitsiani who was ousted from Kodori Gorge in a Georgian police operation in 2006:
“Former president’s envoy in Kodori Gorge Emzar Kvitsiani has denied participating in planning to take Upper Abkhazia by storm.
According to a source, de facto Abkhazian defense minister Merab Kishmaria contacted Kvitsiani, who is based in a Russian city, and asked him to participate in an operation that is planned at the beginning of August by separatists.
According to the Russian-Abkhazian plan Kvitsiani and his allies would stage a rebellion in Kodori Gorge under the guise of trying to release Svaneti residents [from Tbilisi’s control] but this would be only propaganda.
According to the same source Kvitsiani categorically denied any participation in the plan.”