“The identity of the caller who threatened Kakabadze is still unclear”

Tbilisi police are asking Irakli Kakabadze, a leader of the pro-opposition NGO Equality Institute, to try and identify the phone number of an anonymous, threatening caller, Alia reports.

Kakabadze says an unknown caller warned him to “be careful.” At the suggestion of the US Embassy, Kakabadze went to the police for help.

Kakabadze has given up Georgian citizenship for American citizenship.



“MPs are too lazy to attend plenary sessions”

Georgian MPs are too lazy to attend parliament sessions, Sakartvelos Respublika writes.

The newspaper’s ire was drawn by a December 7 session which was postponed for half an hour while the legislative body waited for a quorum. Only 40 MPs showed up.

An exasperated Mikheil Machavariani, acting speaker of parliament, demanded to see all of the country’s governors, presumably to demand they whip the regional MPs into line.



“Georgian doctors successfully finished military reservist training program”

On December 6, reports Akhali Taoba, a group of Georgian medics completed an 18-day military reservist training program at the Mukhrovani reservist base near Tbilisi.

Around 515 doctors underwent training for the battlefield, learning how to cauterize wounds, prevent blood loss and evacuate wounded soldiers in field conditions.

Chief of the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces Colonel Zaza Gogava was on hand to congratulate the reservists.

Another reservist medical battalion is to be created next year.