Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch - A scuffle developed outside an important Tbilisi landmark before the weekend, as officials tried to stop Georgian ...

On 22 October, local non-government organizations met representatives of the Analytical Department of the Ministry of Justice. At the meeting, ...

After the “Rose Revolution” a period of numerous reforms started in Georgia. Mostly, reforms required to amend legislation and thus, ...

More than a decade ago, Mikheil Saakashvili got his start in Georgian politics in the Tbilisi city council – before ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The election reform has been postponed for two months. It should have ended by the end of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As his last best option for entering Georgian politics was blocked, Bidzina Ivanishvili's allies are experiencing unprecedented ...

TBILILSI, DFWatch - Georgia has received a stern message from Western diplomats to amend its Labor Code during a conference ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Venice Commission has asked the government to change the proposed new Electoral Code, after going through ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia has agreed to a proposal from Swiss intermediaries which if adopted will lead to Russia becoming ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian police accepts responsibility for damages journalists suffered as law enforcers violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration May ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Few Georgians doubt that Bidzina Ivanishvili is who he says he is, but now the government refuses ...

The year 2011 proved itself strange. Saakashvili’s government had long been creating many difficulties for its citizens – economic, legal, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - When the government recently killed financier Bidzina Ivanishvili's plan B for entering politics, it claimed only to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The government is going to take away financier Bidzina Ivanishvili's last chance to enter Georgian politics, according ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian billionaire who seems to have a chance at taking over power in Georgia gets more ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgians living abroad will get the right to visit their home country without a visa, get a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The popular newcomer in Georgian politics was promptly denied having his citizenship restored today by a Tbilisi ...

A number of circumstances determine fairness of elections in Georgia. Among them are the electoral system, transparency of political party ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The script writer for a new TV show has broken off his cooperation with businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, ...

How Will Saakashvili Chart His Path Into the History Books? The last couple weeks have probably not been fun ones for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In 2011, several journalists have lost their job for simply expressing their opinion on the internet. The ability ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia imposes three months isolation for prisoners who misbehave. The opposition fears that the government is getting ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The man who challenges Saakashvili's power in Georgia will get rid of the current president's people and ...

“According to the survey, which was carried out in 80 counties of the world, Georgia is the first country after ...

The quality and degree of democracy and freedom in a state, among some other factors, depends on the level of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - America will be expecting to see a democratic transition of power in Georgia in the presidential election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - They have taken away his citizenship, accused his bank of laundering money, arrested a friend of his ...

Almost 10 years have passed since the UN, in an attempt to help solve the Abkhaz conflict, launched the Document ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The chair of Georgia's media regulatory commission keeps back from interfering when TV stations break the advertising ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's richest is carefully laying the groundwork for his entering politics and wresting the Caucasus nation out ...

During the reforming of post-revolutionary Georgia’s economy, significant experience has been accumulated in this field, both positive and negative. A plethora ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Police in Tbilisi Tuesday afternoon arrested six employees of CartuBank in an armed operation against the bank ...

Georgia's ruling party has made it illegal for a political candidate to let him or herself be caught up in ...

Can the Caucasus region be united through good taste? That was one of the questions as food producers from all ...

The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has decided to make his people pay for accessing public documents. Like in most Western countries, ...

The financier Bidzina Ivanishvili has decided to go to court in order to get back his citizenship which was taken ...

In Georgia, a businessman who one week ago set out to unseat president Mikheil Saakashvili is quickly gathering supporters while ...

Three rights groups refuse to take part in a new system meant to guarantee every Georgian the right to vote, ...

Georgia's light infantry Battalion #31 has just left for Afghanistan. It consists of 749 soldiers and will replace Battalion #33. ...

Georgian society has a history of discussions, disputes, criticism and disagreements around the election environment and election legislation. As an ...

A top official working for the regime in Tskhinvali says he agrees with revelations the financier Bidzina Ivanishvili put forth ...

A 19 year old Georgian soldier has been killed in an what appears to be an accident at a base ...

The stripping of a businessman's citizenship right after he made a dramatic call to remove Mikheil Saakashvili from power moved ...

Two observers from the Council of Europe (CoE) have asked Georgia's ruling party to stop coming up with surprise changes ...

Journalists Wednesday responded to the wealthiest Georgian Bidzina Ivanishvili's call for them to form an alliance to unseat Mikheil Saakashvili, ...

“Stop, Misha, you are standing on the edge of the abyss, stop!” was the fincier Bidzina Ivanishvili's message to Georgian ...

In just a couple of days after Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian billionaire known internationally as Boris Ivanishvili, had announced his ...

The authorities in Georgia have stripped the country's richest man of his citizenship, just as he was preparing to launch ...

Two thirds of Georgians think of themselves as unemployed. Living conditions are so dire that the question of territorial integrity ...

The public broadcaster and two independent TV stations are competing to carry the political debut of Georgia's richest man. First, the ...

Government wants to reform the antimonopoly service and give it new tasks. But its budget is to stay the same ...

After being rejected by the journalists of Maestro TV, financier Bidzina Ivanishvili's has found new allies in the anti-Saakashvili grassroots ...

South Ossetia Sunday released three Georgians who were charged of illegally crossing the so-called state border, Kavkaz Uzel reported. The three ...

The financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is satisfied so far with the impact he has had, after announcing he would challenge the ...

The billionaire businessman who said he would run in the next election has received a cold shoulder from two independent ...

President Nicolas Sarkozy finally arrived in Tbilisi Friday from Baku. It was the final stop on his tour of the ...

French president Nicolas Sarkozy told Georgians Friday that the country must strengthen democracy through further reforms if it wants to ...

There is rising confusion after President Saakashvili said that the first parliamentary session in Kutaisi will be on the next ...

Parliament is to consider a new law about product safety which might require scrapping an old law, and a big ...

Prosecutors in Georgia will get powers to monitor suspicious money transfers before they are carried out. But this will require ...

The Georgian government is to start handing out funds to select players in the whole non-public sector, after a decision ...

Three journalists and four media companies filed an administrative lawsuit at Tbilisi city court Tuesday morning against Georgia's Ministry of ...

Work to improve the Georgian election environment has ended as a draft has been sent off to the Council of ...

Owners of derelict or abandoned buildings in Georgia may have their property taken from them under a new bill which ...

Three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are seriously concerned after the government's sudden changes to the draft for a new election law. Now ...