Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch - The U.S. Embassy to Georgia has expressed its confidence in surveys done by the National Democratic Institute ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - After the 19th round of the Geneva talks, Georgia hopes that Moscow, like Tbilisi, will commit to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian parliament asks the international community to react to intentional destruction of historical monuments on the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Public Defender gives priority to the problems of internally displaced persons (IDPs). Giorgi Tughushi presented his ...

About a month ago Tbilisi Appellate Court delivered a judgment in a case involving a person with a disability, who ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new opinion poll in Georgia surprisingly showed that a new opposition movement has little support. Was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Deputy Justice Minister says there will be a decision in about a week regarding the businessman ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian billionaire who is considered the main competitor of the government yesterday met EU officials and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - From now on it will be possible to be elected to parliament from the age of 21. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia has changed its laws so that parliament can meet in the new parliament building in Kutaisi ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A little known clause in Georgia's election law may allow the authorities to block most foreign election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The current situation in Georgian prisons remains one of the main problems in the human rights field, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Public Defender on Thursday presented his annual report on human rights in the country. Among the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The International Monetary Fund will support the Georgian government’s economic and finance program of 2012-2013 with USD ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A delegation from the Georgian parliament is going to Uganda to take part in the 126th Assembly ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Editor in Chief of the Georgian edition of Forbes blames the magazine’s owner of censorship, after an ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In Georgia, there have been demonstrations throughout March against what is seen as violations of women’s rights. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s foreign trade turnover increased by 15 percent compared to the same period last year. Germany moved ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Abkhazia, the Georgian breakaway republic, last Saturday held the last of two election rounds for parliament. A ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian parliament asks the international community to help keep a watch on the restoration work planned ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - If there were elections tomorrow 47 percent would vote for the party of President Mikheil Saakashvili, the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition activist who first spoke out about the alleged paramilitary groups in Western Georgia has been ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition party in Georgia that claimed President Saakashvili is organizing political paramilitaries reports that one of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi does not recognize last weekend's elections for parliament and president in Georgia’s breakaway regions Abkhazia and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tuesday, the results of a reguler opinion poll done by the National Democratic Institute (NDI) are expected. Although ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Leonid Tibilov, a former head of the KGB in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia beat the other ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The breakaway republic Abkhazia Sunday completed its 2012 parliamentary election by holding a second round of voting. There ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - For the second time in a month, there has been a death during police questioning in Georgia. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia Sunday held presidential elections. By 10 in the morning, 11% of voters ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Patriarch, Ilia II, told foreign diplomats that their assistance is needed for the difficult election period ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Abkhazia today holds the second round of the elections for parliament. 20 constituencies are selecting a candidate in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Today it is twenty years since Georgia and the U.S. established diplomatic relations. Marking the occasion, the U.S. ...

March 20, opposition politician Irakli Alasania sent a letter to Georgia's National Security Council, detailing what he claims is a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The first forum organized by the EU's Eastern Partnership is being held in Tbilisi’s Radisson Hotel. It is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The visa rules between Georgia and Lebanon will be simplified, the two countries' prime minister have decided. Georgian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The confirmation hearing for the next U.S. Ambassador to Georgia has made waves in the country of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The World Bank has granted Georgia two new loans. The loans total 130 million US dollars and will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Alla Dzhioyeva, the defiant opposition leader in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia, asks her supporters to vote in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia is preparing for another presidential election. The poll on March 25 will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed a special representative to South Ossetia, five days after awarding the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Interior Ministry said March 21 that all armed groups are under the control of the government. “There ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The U.S. National Democratic Institute today presented its latest findings about public attitudes in Georgia. The survey was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A pro-democracy campaign in the former Soviet republic Georgia is noting a slight progress as parliament Wednesday ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The former Soviet republic of Georgia has made the building of Lazika, a hypothetical metropol on the ...

On February 29, 2012, during a debate in Parliament, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili referred to a former pupil at ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition politician in Georgia Tuesday described in more detail what he knows about an alleged paramilitary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian border police Monday detained a Russian cargo ship carrying coal across the Black Sea from Ukraine ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition candidate Tuesday presented details about an alleged secret paramilitary organization he claims was recently organized ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia is to send a task group to Malaysia to study the situation regarding two Georgians sentenced ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Vakhtang Nadibaidze (53) stands in line in front of the Polish embassy, waiting for the answer to ...

The regulation of administrative offenses and administrative detention in particular are of grave concern to local and international human rights ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In Georgia, a vague new law is on its way to be clarified, as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Parliamentarians in Georgia are awaiting the testimony of the chairman of the country's Chamber of Control, a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Four non-governmental organizations in Georgia Monday for the third time met with parliament's judicial committee about the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's foreign ministry says the U.S. State Department has confirmed to them that Secretary of State Hillary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There are intense preparations going on between Georgia and Israel to cancel visa restrictions between the two ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has dismissed the charges made by one of the opposition leaders that ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In August 2007, the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi listed twelve young women who each held special talents ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's former UN ambassador, now an opposition leader, says that President Mikheil Saakashvili's apparatus is organizing paramilitary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Council of Europe is to examine moves by the government of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili made ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A report from an Israeli news agency contradicts what the Georgian government is saying about negotiations over ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - After a top Georgian lawmaker and the foreign ministry came out with critical remarks about a statement ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Thursday responded to a request by Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Germany wants to send in extra long-term election observers to Georgia ahead of an important parliamentary election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, John Bass, has expressed concern about the wave of interrogations carried out ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Representatives of Tbilisi State University’s student's union Wednesday beat two students. The students who were beaten believe the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia is not going to abolish the law on occupied territories before Russia starts pulling back its ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Patriarch congratules Vladimir Putin with having been elected as president of Russia. Polls have shown Patriarch ...

Several days ago I had a meeting with two experienced lawyers. They and I are all rather concerned about freedom ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A bill in Georgia will entitle the president to issue secret acts if the country's defense and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - German Foreign Affairs Minister Guido Westerwelle will visit Georgia on March 15 as part of a tour ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A two day business conference was launched in Tbilisi Wednesday called Making Business with USA. The conference is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russia is ready to cancel its visa requirements for Georgian citizens if Georgia changes the law about ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The opposition Christian Democratic Movement blames the government of having adopted a law which discriminates against women. Representative ...

The visit of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Guido Westerwelle to Tbilisi on March ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Do you know what “NGO” means? If not, look out. You might be targeted by their next ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will attend the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit to be held March 27-28 in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - American defense officials Tuesday visited Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili to talk about a biological research facility which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Chamber of Control has started a wave of interrogations in western Georgia. People are being called in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The delegations of the U.S. and the EU in Georgia do not recognize the recent de facto ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Eastern Partnership Georgia appeals to the EU for help in the case of party financing rules. Authorities in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Chamber of Control keeps using its newly granted authority and fines a Georgian billionaire turned ...

We have bad experience with a German Foreign Minister’s visits to Georgia. Former Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited Georgia several ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili Monday responded to a Russian invitation to reestablish diplomatic relations by saying Georgians ...

Guido Westerwelle, a German Foreign Minister, a distinguished and energetic German politician, will soon be visiting Georgia. A visit by ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Speaker of Parliament, Davit Bakradze, March 12 began an official visit to Israel. Bakradze has been invited ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There will be a second round of the de facto elections for parliament in the Georgian breakaway ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia halted the flow of Russian natural gas to Armenia on Saturday, due to a technical accident ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Abkhazia, one of Georgia's two breakaway regions, Saturday held parliamentary elections. According to the de facto Central Election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - U.S. Marines have arrived in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to hold a two week exercise ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is being criticized for his speech in the parliament of neighboring Azerbaijan. A member ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Foreign direct investment in Georgia is increasing dramatically, and much of it comes from companies registered in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, is unfamiliar with there being negotiations regarding returning church ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Here in Georgia, the 'This Affects You Too' campaign continues as organizers delivered a special appeal to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Up to forty people gathered Thursday in front of the police building in Khashuri, a town in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - NATO is to strengthen its efforts to further democratic reforms in Georgia as part of preparing the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A lawmaker in Georgia confirms that there were negotiations with Russia about setting up a counter-terrorism center ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A billionaire newcomer politician in the former Soviet republic of Georgia criticizes a radical opposition leader for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The days are long gone when Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili spoke of Vladimir Putin’s height, while the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Pro-democracy campaigners in Georgia welcome a step by the government to change a controversial law which they ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition billionaire in the former Soviet republic of Georgia Tuesday had meetings with representatives for the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's leader Mikheil Saakashvili Wednesday went on the offensive against newly elected Russian president Vladimir Putin's brainchild; ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Campaigners in the former Soviet republic of Georgia are asking the European Union and the OSCE for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev March 6 during a two-day visit to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Interior Ministry has fired a local police chief after a controversial death of a suspect under ...

When George Washington held the first State of the Union address in the U.S. Congress, there was a debate about ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia increases its sentencing of hate crimes. A new bill to amend the Criminal Code will make it ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Where exactly does Europe end and Asia start? Some say it's the Likhi mountain range, which separates ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterates that Georgia is eligible for membership in the alliance ...

Georgia's party financing law was amended in December 2011. A campaign called This Affects You Too was formed in February ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new law in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has led to several international organizations reconsidering ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - School children in Georgia are given as home assignment to 'like' their leaders. Having a popular official ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - 92.77% of the voters in South Ossetia voted for Vladimir Putin as president of Russia. In the ...

Social expenses comprised the largest share in the State budget of Georgia in 2011, with 30% of total expenses directed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Interior Minister says his ministry’s preliminary findings show that the death of a prisoner at ...

President Saakashvili in his recent address to the Parliament referred to the entire opposition as ones locked in a virtual ...

‘Something’ really changed, because the party, the leader who called the collapse of the Soviet Empire the greatest geopolitical catastrophe ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday unveiled another home produced weapon system; a Georgian version of the Grad ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian beach resort came under machine gun and rocket propelled grenade fire last night. According to a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Confusion continues over a detainee's suspicious death at a police station, after a Georgian website released photos ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russia offers Georgia visa-free travel and to restore diplomatic relations, but not without conditions. The Russian foreign ministry ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has set up a new board of military advisers in the Defense Ministry. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The inflation rate fell to minus 2.1% in February, as an estimate for year as a whole. This ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Democracy campaigners in the former Soviet republic of Georgia call for international observers to come and monitor ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, have been given even more power to manage the sale of state ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The former Soviet republic of Georgia has simplified the definition of what an act of terrorism is. Previously, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The former Soviet republic of Georgia is seeing a steady increase in foreigners visiting. Iranians account for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The government in the former Soviet republic of Georgia is liberalizing its policy on drug addiction. According to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - President Mikheil Saakashvili hopes a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU will make unemployment ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Public Defender calls for an objectively investigation into the death of Solomon Kimeridze. “The cause of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Civil Registry is out of time to give a written response regarding opposition businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili was not only confronted with objections to his rule inside the parliament building ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Constitutional Court has decided that parliament did not have the right to give prosecutors powers to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The ‘This Affects You Too’ campaign continues to push for amendments to recent new rules that they ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A Russian Duma member calls Georgia’s lifting of visa rules for Russians propaganda. Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The political party For a Renewed Georgia will today open a regional office in Mtskheta-Mtianeti north of ...