Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch - Only four candidates have been approved to participate in the March 25 election to fill the post ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - President Mikheil Saakashvili Tuesday February 28 gave his address to parliament and summarized the country's situation as ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Israeli officials deny that there are in talks with Georgia about handing over control over the Monastery ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There were tough exchanges in the Georgian parliament yesterday, with President Mikheil Saakashvili at one point leaving ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - From this year, Georgians who sign up with a private or vocational school for learning a new ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The president in Georgia promises health insurance for all large families from 2013. Mikheil Saakashvili was making his ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia says this fall's parliamentary election will be an ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says his political force ‘has the resources to govern for many years and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili claims that the Netherlands wants to copy Georgia's health care system. He said this ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said Tuesday night that Georgia will lift visa requirements for all Russians. Saakashvili was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - EU foreign ministers have issued a paper setting out to integrate Georgia more in the Union. The paper ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - EU says parliamentary and presidential elections in Georgia should meet internationally recognized standards of democracy. A statement published ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition politician in the former Soviet republic of Georgia accuses the government of lying about when ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The European Union’s commissioner for trade issues, Karel de Gucht, will arrive in Georgia today on February ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - When Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili comes to parliament this evening to make his speech about the state ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s billionaire-backed opposition movement, Georgian Dream, is not going to reconsider the country’s participation in the ISAF ...

It’s already the fourth year that I am a member of parliament, and for the fourth time I have to ...

Part 1: Russia and Georgia One cannot Play at Giveaway Since the Rose Revolution and the assumption of political power by Mikhail ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Black Sea port of Batumi has been chosen as host for the OSCE Economic Forum in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian authorities have issued fines to an opposition figurehead and his associates totaling 363 000 US dollars. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president will make his annual speech to parliament tomorrow, February 28, at 20:00. Speaker of Parliament ...

What is most valuable to the U.S. in regards to Georgia is to have a leader who is supportive of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, which in its time was built with the support of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The small fireplace, wooden chairs, all the logs and even the small plant planted one day ago ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia today presented its new combat vehicle Lazika at the Vaziani military base not far from the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Friday evening, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili's Facebook page suffered a similar attack as his Russian counterpart Dimitry ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Four more trees were cut in Tbilisi's old Kikvidze Park yesterday night while activists left the area ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Only one of Abkhazian de facto president Alexander Ankvab's guards died after Wednesday's assassination attempt. In the immedate ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's largest trading partner is Turkey, just like before, according to fresh data of from January 2012. According ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The former Soviet republic of Georgia is to establish a new data-sharing and information protection model. A new ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As one month is left until the de facto republic South Ossetia is to hold another presidential ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An online campaign against Russian president Dimitry Medvedev’s Facebook page led to comments in Georgian language being ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Groups in Georgia Thursday continued their campaign against the new party financing rules which were ushered in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian authorities have arrested the head of security at opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili's ski resort. It was officers ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - On Dadiani Street in northern Tbilisi near Didube metro, there is a big old park called Kikvidze ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russia hopes to restore friendly relations with the Georgian people, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says. “We have ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian security analyst says today's attack on Abkhazia's leader could have been carried out by Moscow-loyal ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A lawmaker from Georgia's ruling party says he doesn't exclude that Russia was behind today's ambush of ...

It was a long way of looking for the women in Georgian politics. For the last decade, the only explanation ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russian security police FSB forced a civilian airliner to return to Moscow and confiscated the passport of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - This morning's roadside ambush has left one of de facto Abkhazian president Alexander Ankvab's bodyguards dead, and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Three Georgian soldiers have died in Afghanistan, according to Georgia's Defense Minister. The country has now lost ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Wednesday morning the de facto president of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia was attacked while in his car ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The former member of parliament accused of planning a coup d’état in 2007 was released on bail. Georgian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As a new chapter unfolded in the saga about Georgia's party finance reform, the Chamber of Control ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili Tuesday took his movement one step further to becoming a full-fledged party, but ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze is asking parliament to change the recently introduced party finance rules ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili promised to this week unveil a new combat vehicle his country has developed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said during a visit to Afghanistan that the United States will help Georgia ...

  TBILISI, DFWatch - The United Kingdom's ambassador to Georgia, Judith Gough, Monday visisted Abkhazia, one of two breakaway regions. Ambassador Gough ...

Georgia's 2012 budget is significantly different from the 2011 budget due to it being an election year. The expenditure part ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will hold his annual state of the nation address in parliament's next week. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili today visited his country's soldiers at the combat outpost Shukvani in Afghanistan's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The change of U.S. Ambassador to Georgia is routine, says the embassy's press service. ‘Ambassadors are replaced once ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A former parliamentarian has been arrested in Georgia today just as he entered the country from Armenia. Valeri ...

From 2009 to 2011, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) carried out the first and so far ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Hunters saved from freezing to death, sailors are saved from pirates, a monk saved from hostage-takers, villagers ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Barack Obama has proposed Richard Boyce Norland as new U.S. ambassador to Georgia. The President proposed Norland as ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Just days before the premiere, two cinemas in Azerbaijan have decided not to show a new Russian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The loud sound of a horn and whistles was heard outside parliament in Tbilisi today, as activists ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The former Soviet republic of Georgia is going to construct a new coal power station in the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Revenue Service says it can not understand the charges made by a billionaire opposition politician that ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's defense ministry says the current twelve month service length is not enough to properly prepare persons ...

In official or semi-official conversations, president Saakashvili's supporters often remark that Saakashvili should somehow stay in power to finish the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Outspoken activists and rights groups met in Tbilisi today and signed a petition called ‘It affects you ...

  TBILISI, DFWatch - A billionaire in Georgia who is building an opposition movement says his TV equipment was deliberately damaged ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's foreign ministry says Russia keeps on militarizing Georgia’s occupied regions, is deploying the newest offensive weapons ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The South Ossetian opposition leader who was injured in an attack by authorities last week says she ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A suspected explosive device was reported to have been found outside Russia's consulate in Tbilisi Wednesday. However, it ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Israel's transport minister proposes to establish visa-free travel with the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The proposal was ...

  TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili today presented the members of the initiative group for his new political party ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The de facto authorities in South Ossetia said she suffered a heart attack and had to be ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia is giving the highest priority to investigating Monday's foiled bombing attempt against the car of an ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia and Iran's new visa free agreement has led to a tripling of travel. We take a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A United Nations envoy says the new party finance rules Georgia introduced in December are a violation ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A terror suspect was arrested in Zugdidi Tuesday, but Georgian authorities deny that it is linked with ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi's old Gudiashvili Square was fully covered with white snow on Sunday as people showed up to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Work to construct one of the biggest hydro electric power stations in Georgia has been halted, after ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An explosive device was found under the car of a driver for the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the elected assembly's minority block is in danger of breaking ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A South Ossetian ex-politician has been fired from his position as coach for Russia’s national wrestling team. Dzambulat ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Most newspapers in the former Soviet republic of Georgia today publish a petition which protests controversial changes ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Today at 17:00 the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will meet representatives of the parliamentary majority at his ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the bigger parties are giving away representatives in an apparent ...

In December 2011 the Parliament of Georgia upheld amendments to rules about party financing and other relevant regulations. These amendments ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The acting president of the Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia claims the situation in the region is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian monk who mysteriously disappeared in Abkhazia is free after 25 days of captivity and has ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Several leading Georgian organizations are now demanding clearer limits for the powers of the country's party finance ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Organizations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia are planning to take immediate measures together with media ...

On December 4, 2011, the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili announced an initiative to build a new city called “Lazika” ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has regained consciousness in a hospital in Tskhinvali. Doctors want to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Coalition for Media Advocacy says it is unacceptable to prevent journalists from bringing cameras into the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The wife of opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is suing Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, after he ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The leader of the Georgian breakaway republic Abkhazia asks the EU not to teach Abkhazians how to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The popular opposition leader in South Ossetia, Alla Dzhioyeva, has been detained, reports Ekho Kavkaza. The internet portal ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Abkhazia wants the EU to recognize the Georgian breakaway region's own passports as valid travel documents, just ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili calls for the government to investigate a police special operation in 2006 which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia recorded a record number of visitors entering the country in January 2012. According to data from the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The government of Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili has begun an unprecedented move to cut off the foreign ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Among all the other problems the weather is causing, Tbilisi citizens have one more worry: Their garbage ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Snowy weather is creating difficulties in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The whole country is currently ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The situation in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia ahead of a rescheduled elections is getting more strained ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In the Georgian capital, news hungry citizens can now get their daily update from a bright red ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Journalists in Georgia will no longer be allowed to bring cameras into the session hall of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russian President Dimitry Medvedev says the Russian and Georgian people should have relations and thinks it's therefore ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There is growing uncertainty about whether the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili may stay on as prime minister ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - It is one of Georgia's most touted reforms abroad, but now lawyers who have experienced it in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The situation in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia is getting more complicated as both top candidates refuse ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A shot was fired at a journalist's house in the Georgian capital Monday. No-one was injured. The journalist ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been in contact with the foreign minister of Georgia to ...

TBLISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Speaker of Parliament says that there is no talk of Georgia having a role in ...

A lot of reforms have been carried out in the country during the first two decades after Georgia's independence in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - English is first priority for Georgian youth, but they might as well keep a basic knowledge of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president says Russia stopped its attack in August 2008 after the United States started deploying ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A South Ossetian opposition leader calls for the other candidates to not take part in a rescheduled ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Seven years after his death, the anniversary of Georgia's late prime minister Zurab Zhvania is still testimony ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president says Georgia already is the biggest trade hub in the Caucasus region and that ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Defense Minister signals that his country will strengthen its military capability. Bacho Akhalaia made the statement ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - “The military cooperation between Georgia and USA is entering a completely new stage, which means that Georgia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president says the Georgian government has delivered on its promises. He said this during a speech at ...

- Right! What we did not get was, something that was in the preliminary statement of the White House, stating that: ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - During a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said that his first presidential ...

Georgia’s only way forward towards strengthened security, economic growth and modernization is to build a pluralistic political society. Georgia cannot ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Nani has been working in Turkey for last ten years at a rich family, taking care of ...

The Georgian public is already used to multiple amendments to different laws, which dramatically change regulation principles in different areas ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The de facto head of the Abkhazian church Besarion Aplia confirms that a Georgian cleric was arrested ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says the changes his country has been through can not be undone ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Snowfall and strong winds are making trouble for people all over Georgia. More than 72 000 were ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A civil rights group in Georgia wants a new set of rules to ensure that the country's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - We asked Caucasus expert Tom de Waal a few questions following Monday's meeting between U.S. president Barack ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Media workers in the former Soviet republic of Georgia met Wednesday to reaffirm their mutual pledge to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president says the results of his meeting with U.S. president Barack Obama exceeded his expectations. President ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says that his country's military cooperation with the United States is moving into ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The leadership of Georgia's breakaway region South Ossetia say an opposition politician's quest to claim election victory ...