Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch - Germany is to allocate 75 million euro as grant and soft loan to Georgia. The new aid package ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The firing of the head of the National Examinations Center is being vigorously discussed in Georgia's social ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - USD 230 million was transferred to Georgia in the first quarter of 2012 as direct investments. Nika Gilauri, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – U.S. Senator Richard Durbin, who is visiting Georgia, is studying how the election campaign is being conducted ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Prime Minister Nika Gilauri claims that inflation indicator in May is positive and hopes that it ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – After dismissing the head of the national examinations center, Georgia's education minister has hired the head of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – U.S. senator Richard Durbin is visiting Georgia today to discuss regional safety and US-Georgia relations. The visit will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - President Saakashvili has signed a set of constitutional changes which allow his main competitor to participate in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili says his country expects a new attack from Russia by October, when parliament elections ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia's opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili has gone on the barricades against the Public Broadcaster, saying that it ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has decided to open a national park for commercial activity. The area lies in Georgia's western part ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The police detained eight activists in front of parliament today. The eight were protesting against the arrest of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General's Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, will arrive in Georgia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia's whole educations sector has been thrown into crisis, as right before the national tests over a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia's education minister on Monday fired the head the of National Examinations Center, which is know as ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A businessman in Georgia who is in prison and said he was framed by the Saakashvili regime ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – An employee of the Ministry of Education has been fired and says it might have been because ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The election of a nationalist as president in Serbia has caused Tbilisi to respond with an appeal ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition coalition Georgian Dream will start naming their candidates for majoritarian members of parliament from June ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – On May 26, Georgia's independence day, President Mikheil Saakashvili argued that it is time for a stronger ...

Global TV is a cable operator that provides services to its subscribers in Tbilisi and some other regions of Georgia. ...

The opposition movement Georgian Dream mobilized tens of thousands of supporters in Tbilisi Sunday. Crowds marched from three different locations ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – For the first time in Georgia's history, the main celebration on Independence Day took place not in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia celebrates Independence Day today on May 26. The day is a celebration of restoration of independence ...

TBILISI, DFWatch –The U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton will visit Georgia June 5. Clinton starts her South Caucasus tour on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Groups organized rally in front of Justice Ministry on Friday to protest against a number of incidents ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – City authorities in Tbilisi have decided to not allow the opposition Georgian Dream movement to erect a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - DF Watch sat down with U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, John Bass, for a conversation about the situation ...

The recently delivered speech by Michael Saakasvilli in Princeton University was a wholesome educational experience for every graduate in communication ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia fell one place in the Global Enabling Trade Report 2012. The list is published by the World ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Four Georgians have been detained after having crossed into the breakaway region South Ossetia. The four were detained ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia, rising fuel prices has spurred a new movement that is questioning the cozy connection between ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The first interim report of one of several extraordinary election monitoring teams says that this spring has ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia regrets that NATO was unable to make findings regarding the events of August 2008. The Russian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia once again has postponed placing shares of the state-owned Georgian Railway on London Stock Exchange. The debut ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Amnesty International criticizes Georgia for not having investigated police brutality. The Saakashvili regime has renewed the country's law ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition leader in South Ossetia who refused to acknowledge the last election has been appointed Vice ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A new initiative by the moderate opposition Christian Democrats to ban same-sex marriage and write Christianity into ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Another Olympic champion has been added to the list of Georgian sportsmen taking part in the political ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – One of President Mikheil Saakashvili's top officials says he was taken by surprise by an open letter ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Journalists in Georgia demand to meet with President Mikheil Saakashvili and ask him about a series of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The parliamentary faction Christian Democrats Movement is demanding a ban on 'immoral persons' holding public office and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian parliament today passed constitutional changes meant to let opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili participate in the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A small TV station in Georgia has been taken over, in the latest of a series of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – NATO’s Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says Georgia will become a member of the alliance sometime. There ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A pro-democracy campaign in Georgia calls on the Saakashvili regime to not stall a negotiated deal intended ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A former Georgian general who was convicted of treason and lived in Russia was killed Monday in ...

At the Summit of NATO, leaders of the NATO and non-NATO member states are discussing the next major phase of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia and Azerbaijan are working on delineating their border, in order to solve the problem regarding Davit ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Deputy Foreign Minister Nikoloz Vashakidze says he hopes that Switzerland will finish selecting the company which ...

There are several points on Georgia in NATO's declaration in Chicago published on Monday, 21. DF Watch publishes part of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The protest continues against the construction work on a historic square in Tbilisi, after workers Saturday started ...

On 11th of May Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty published an interview with NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. It might ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – NATO countries are meeting in Chicago with aspirant countries and countries which participate in the ISAF mission ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The labor code should contribute to employment, faster investments and motivate investors, and only after this may ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Railway is nearer to going live on London Stock Exchange. Georgia’s Economy Ministry confirms the listing, previously ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia is attractive in regards to ease of doing business and freedom of the economy, says Martin ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili sells his development assets in Russia for USD 982.5 million. Ivanishvili, who ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A prisoner in Georgia says he was sexually abused by prison staff and later told he would ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – After peaceful demonstrators against homophobia were beaten by counter-demonstrators Thursday, people gathered in front of parliament building ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - President Mikheil Saakashvili suggests to bring Georgian doctors currently working in the U.S. back to Georgia. It ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - John Bass, U.S. Ambassador to Georgia, says that Hillary Clinton will visit Georgia. In late 2011, it was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s foreign minister and his Azeri colleague have decided to find a solution to the situation at ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A pro-democracy campaign in Georgia Thursday presented their latest package of modifications to various aspects of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says 2012 has many parallels to 2008, and that NATO needs to show ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian government says it will solve the problems with the David Gareja monastery complex on the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There are two articles in Georgia’s Labor Code which entitles employers to terminate a labor contract without ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A celebration of the international day for the fight against homophobia Thursday turned violent as demonstrators were ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Money transfers from foreign countries to Georgia increased 6.4 percent in April, compared to the same period ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A man Thursday set himself on fire at the parliament building because the government hasn’t helped him. Parliament ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The recently founded Channel 9 TV, which is affiliated with Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian Dream party, has bought ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In a new report, the EU Commission criticizes Georgia’s government for the police brutality on May 26, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia is doing away with a law which guaranteed the public access to information about public officials. This ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Giorgi Targamadze (pictured) is one of the sources for a new report former EU Ambassador to Georgia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first four months of 2012 grew 18 percent compared to the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Opposition representatives in Georgia say the flood that took five lives Sunday could have been prevented. The discussion ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As Georgia's capital was drenched in rain water, and a stream flooded a district, killing five, reports ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The parliament in Georgia Tuesday once more modified a set of constitutional changes which were meant to ...

Last week was remarkable due to the activities of a number of NGOs (such as TI Georgia, GYLA, ISFED, Coalition ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Lawmakers in Georgia have finally achieved consensus for constitutional changes which will give opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Teachers are suffering political discrimination in Georgia ahead of an important election. Only in Shida Kartli, a region ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Saakashvili regime has finally revealed how much it is spending on building a new parliament building: ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia has obtained a listing on London Stock Exchange for obligations in Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation. Securities ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Saakashvili’s main political opponent Bidzina Ivanishvili will sell all his property in Russia by the end of ...

Recent practice and statistics have revealed the extreme severity of the problem of inefficiency of the legal mechanisms that envision ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Residents in the disaster struck district of Tbilisi speak about different reasons causing damage during heavy flooding ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Prisons in Georgia are to become more crowded, as the maximum limit on number of inmates is ...

BILISI, DFWatch - On Saint Andrew's Day May 12, refugees from Abkhazia gathered at the parliament building in Tbilisi to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – After a series of incidents with security and police, journalists gathered in Tbilisi to share their stories ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia was hit by heavy rain overnight, causing flash flooding many places. Five deaths are reported in ...

TBILISI, Dfwatch - Groups in Tbilisi today held a small symbolic protest against the mass cutting of trees in the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Political parties in Georgia need to strengthen their internal democracy. This is the conclusion of a new ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili has a new initiative to turn the whole government into a digital ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The newly inaugurated Russian president Vladimir Putin Friday paid a visit to the border between Russia and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – One hundred year old trees are being cut down in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi and are replaced with ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Demand is growing within the construction business in Georgia. According to the National Statistics Department, GeoStat, the number ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia is to create a new 15-year tax privilege for people who invest at least one million ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - According to unofficial information, 13 people died in the work place in 2011 in Georgia. No official numbers ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has said it is unable to conduct a general population census in 2012. Georgia’s National Statistics Department, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Russia’s national antiterrorism committee says it has foiled a terrorist plot planned against the Olympics Games in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – European liberal politicians visited an opposition billionaire in Tbilisi Thursday to contribute their views on how democracy ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A series of discussion was held in Tbilisi on Tuesday to review conflict problems in Georgia. Comparisons ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Swedish TV recently revealed that Teliasonera has opened their doors for an Orwellian level of surveillance in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Mikheil Saakashvili did not miss out on another chance to mention his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin while ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Lawmakers in Georgia have temporarily given EU citizens political rights in the country for the next three ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Rivers in Georgia's Eastern region Kakheti swelled Tuesday after heavy rain and melting snow, but so far ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A hypothetical city of half a million which still only exists as a Facebook page will be ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili is going back to court, in a further effort to be recognized ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The U.S. organization Committee for Open Democracy (COD) is to send log term election observers to monitor ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s budget is to be increased by 200 million lari by increasing the licensing fees for use ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – On the 67th anniversary of VE Day, victory in Europe in World War Two, Vladimir Putin sent ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The constitutional changes Georgia recently passed which gives EU citizens the right to stand for election will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Media and law organizations in Georgia suggest another package of legislative amendments for the electoral environment in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Caucasus region experienced two minor earthquakes Monday, the strongest of 5.6 magnitude. The 5.6 magnitude earthquake occurred ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - During several days, while the whole world was celebrating World Press Freedom Day, journalists have been violated, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president claims Russia tried to copy the Georgian police reforms, but could not get them ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The crisis in the EU's dealings with a disputed region that broke away from Georgia and is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Two organizations in Georgia have published information which shows that the party of President Mikheil Saakashvili bribed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Police in Georgia Friday intervened in the work of several independent journalists, but let the government-controlled TV ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Party has broken off relations with Erosi Kitsmarisvhili, a well known politician and former manager of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Three national TV channels in Georgia selectively left out parts of a new survey. The survey was done ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Groups gathered Thursday to mark World Press Freedom Day with a day-long discussion about how well suited ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - For three days, journalists from Kutaisi in the west of Georgia have been complaining about harassment by ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A spokesperson for the prison minister in Georgia Friday lied about her whereabouts to divert a crowd ...

TBLISI, DFWatch - An independent medical expert says the injuries seen on photos of a prisoner’s dead body were caused ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Interior Ministry says one person has been arrested for smuggling explosive material to Zugdidi, after crossing ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgiy Ramazashvili, a Moscow-based archival researcher, in July 2011 discovered that there was new construction work on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian foreign ministry ignored calls from an activist in Moscow to help stop the destruction of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - ‘I am a reporter, not a spy’; ‘we want free media’ – these were some of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian billionaire's opposition movement has launched its own TV channel. Channel 9 started broadcasting April 30 and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – People gathered in front of parliament Thursday to protest against mistreatment of prisoners, spurred by the news ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – There are suspicions that a prisoner may have died as a result of torture. The family of Zurab ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new poll shows that no matter who is nominated to suceed Mikheil Saakashvili, his party will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president says that after he has passed away, he wants his ashes to be spread ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The issue about returning management of Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem to Georgia has no connection ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The new parliament building in Georgia will be only partly completed by the time of the opening ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -The Georgian ombudsman criticizes a control body overseeing the financing of political parties for having violated civil rights. Earlier ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The American investor Donald Trump praised Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on the morning talk show Fox & ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Thousands gathered Tuesday in central Tbilisi to celebrate the International Worker's Day, May 1 and demonstrate in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Breakaway Abkhazia refuses to cooperate with a Polish general who represents the EU, and the EU refuses ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In first four months of 2012, 61 per cent more people came to Georgia, compared to the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s vice prime minister criticizes foreign embassies in Tbilisi of not following up a new agreement meant ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Nani (48) left Georgia about 17 years ago to work in Italy and send money to her ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - For the first time in more than five years, spring in the Georgian capital will not be ...