Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia continues its operation on the border with Russia, while a Chechen Islamic Internet news agency claims ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the Georgian Dream coalition says he can’t wait until he leaves politics. Georgia’s richest man, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Eleven dead bodies have been recovered from the rebel group, which according to the Georgian interior ministry ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the largest opposition bloc in Georgia, promises that he will defend people's vote ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili explains the deadly incident on the Russian border this week as an attempt ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian National Platform, a coalition of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs), has released a statement regarding the period ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Georgia Interior Ministry released a footage of operation of Georgian special forces against Islamist militants from Russia’s ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The ruling party says the current parliamentary speaker and the prime minister will represent it in election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A group working on election fairness demands that a case of bribery in one of the regions ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Georgia says a serious border incident which led to fourteen deaths can not be a reason for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Two members of Georgian Interior Affairs Ministry special unit and one military doctor has died, while eleven ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tuesday night, security forces in Georgia were deployed near the border with Russia after an armed group ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The audit body in Georgia, which for several months has been busy fining the largest opposition bloc, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's State Audit Service wants to fine a non-governmental organization (NGO) which supports the government by 5 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s basketball team is in a shared first place in Group D of the qualification for EuroBasket ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The head of a village near Tbilisi has been shot to death. A friend of the victim ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Interactive maps of past election results and voter lists are now available online. The interactive maps are offered ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the largest opposition bloc in Georgia doesn’t exclude that if he wins the parliamentary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi City Court today held a pre-trial hearing on in the case of two persons accused of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - About one acre of forest burned as a result of a fire in Borjomi, a resort town ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A second Bollywood film is being filmed in Georgia on the initiative of Georgia's National Investment Agency. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The international community has begun to assess the election period in Georgia. Their comments focuse on the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Eleven party lists and coalitions have agreed to election campaign financing. Central Election Commission informs that Freedom to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia, archeologists have discovered burial chamber from the third or fourth century BC. The discovery was made ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s national basketball team won against Latvia on August 24, strengthening its position in the qualification for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – An American pro-democracy group says it's questionable whether there is rule of law in Georgia. The non-government organization ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister has become State Minister for Euro-integration. Thornike Gordadze replaced Giorgi Baramidze, former minister ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - OSCE's High Commissioner on National Minorities asks the de facto leadership of Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Former AC Milan player who left football to go into politics was planning to hold a friendship ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A spokesperson for President Mikheil Saakahsvili says the president is thankful to a delegation from OSCE's Parliamentary ...

What is the internal political situation established in the country since the Rose Revolution? How much competition is there between ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Israel has recognized Georgia's so-called neutral travel documents, according to the ministry on reintegration issues. Neutral travel document ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The government in Georgia claims the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly is spreading incorrect information provided by lobbyists of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A delegation from the OSCE's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) which is in Georgia to observe the election says ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Observers from the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) are now in place in Tbilisi ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s National Enforcement Bureau postponed the enforcement of fines that have been issued to political parties which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A journalist and a cameraman were beaten while investigating the illegal cutting of trees in eastern Georgia. Journalists ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The government in Georgia accuses the opposition bloc Georgian Dream of attempting to discredit government bodies. Two officials ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Swiss company SGS will monitor the movement of goods on Russian-Georgian border from September 1, 2012. November ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says the ruling party will have several 21 year-old candidates on their list ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s national basketball team yesterday defeated Bosnia-Herzegovina in a qualification match for Eurobasket 2013. The final score was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A new report reveals cases of violence, pressure and illegal usage of administrative resources in the election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian bank affiliated with the largest opposition bloc has been fined with USD 11 609 500 ...

Two officials in the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) in a new statement express concern about how Georgia's authorities ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Opposition businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is challenging Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia's October 1 parliamentary election, has announced ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Another cleanup effort has started in villages in the east of the former Soviet republic of Georgia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The government in Georgia has placed the speaker of parliament on the top of its party list, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition bloc in Georgia has decided to join the code of conduct for political parties. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new report by Transparency International Georgia shows that the State Audit Service (SAS) has is treating ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - 15 acres of forest has burned down in eastern Georgia despite two days of attempts at extinguishing ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition bloc in Georgia was denied to register under the number seven on the ballot ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Nodar Khaduri from the opposition Georgian Dream says the coalition doesn't have money, because the government seized ...

A 17 year old Georgian girl plans to swim across the Dardanelles with her hands and feet tied on August ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Another storm hit the former Soviet republic of Georgia Sunday in what has become the most stormy ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The largest opposition coalition in Georgia will no longer be allowed to receive donations from persons who ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Political parties in Georgia are ready to agree with rules of conduct prepared by the campaign This ...

Will number 5 strike first again? Today many citizens of Georgia ask themselves what will be their choice in the parliamentary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Riccardo Migliori, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, will arrive in Georgia for the election period, together ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The inter-agency commission tasked with monitoring the election process calls on local governments not to place party ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Police have arrested a man accused of beating a cameraman working for an opposition affiliated media outlet. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian rescue workers have conducted three separated operations to save foreign climbers stuck in the Georgian mountains. One ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Central Election Commission has signed a memorandum with seven local non-government organizations (NGOs) and the inter-agency ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian archeologists have discovered ruins a basilica type three-nave church from the fifth or sixth century in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the largest opposition coalition in Georgia has asked to launch an arbitration case with ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia's trade deficit continued to increase from January to July 2012, but the country's foreign trade turnover ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Dream coalition Thursday opened a tent in the Samtskhe Javakheti region, because the locals refused ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Despite its shortcomings, International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) and Council of Europe’s election program ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The opposition Georgian Dream coalition continues to name its majoritarian. This time the candidates for the High ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A cameraman for an opposition affiliated media outlet was today beaten by a local employee of Lanchkhuti ...

What do you do, if you happen to buy a food in Georgia and before eating it you notice that ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) thinks that a new decree about political advertisements exceeds the frames of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's National Statistics Department GeoStat says direct foreign investments grew 37 percent in 2011 compared to 2010. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Georgian president’s main competitor, plans to win in the western Samegrelo region by having ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Dream, the strongest competitor to the party of Presidential Mikheil Saakashvili, calls on foreign diplomats and ...

In 279 BC, Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated Roman forces at Asculum in Apuleia at such a cost that the king ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Public Defender requests to give the owners of confiscated property the right to appeal the seizure. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new report concludes that some of the public service ads in Georgia contain a political message. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Appeals Court in Tbilisi rejected an appeal by the leader of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian athlete has returned to London after a dramatic escape, in order to sue his country's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian government has started paying compensation to people affected by a hailstorm almost a month ago. People ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition party Georgian Dream continues to run into trouble about the location for its rallies around ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's National Communications Commission (GNCC) Monday published data about the implementation of the must-carry and must-offer principles. 193 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Two ministers have been changed after the new Georgian government was approved. No reason was given for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The leader of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition and his partner, a former AC Milan player, are ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia took seven medals as the London Olympics drew to an end; one in Judo and six ...

As the fourth anniversary of the Russian-Georgia war of 2008 has passed, the two nations remain locked in a political ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The United States will make a significant emphasis on monitoring the election campaign in Georgia, and pay ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – It is still unknown when international observers will start monitoring the election in Georgia. Parliamentary elections are scheduled ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Philip Dimitrov, Head of Delegation of the European Union to Georgia, expressed concern about a recent visit ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – For many years, Goga has been selling various old things in downtown Tbilisi. He mostly sells to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi City Court once more issued a fine to Saakashvili’s main competitor Bidzina Ivanishvi. The case was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A well-known football player who left his career to join the opposition Georgian Dream coalition was on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia appeal to international observers, organizations and diplomatic corps to look closer at ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – An ancient wall has been discovered during rehabilitation works in the center of Tbilisi. The oldest layer of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - 16 Georgians have been fined by Tbilisi City Court for donating money to an opposition party. The court ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - According to a new survey, both the government and the opposition in Georgia are trying to control ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – For more than a month, journalists with an opposition-leaning news service in Georgia have been followed around ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's National Communications Commission (GNCC) claims that broadcasters will be forced to air free political commercials, even ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The bank accounts of the director and seven employees of Cartu Bank were seized today. The bank ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The financial monitoring service of Georgia's state audit office accuses Bidzina Ivanishvili and his partner, a former ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A report sent out by a Georgian news agency led to controversy Tuesday. GHN's report said that after ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Commemoration events will be held during a whole week in Georgia to pay tribute to victims of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Refugees from the 2008 Russia-Georgia war forced a journalist from Maestro TV to leave their settlement by ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A lawyer for a company affiliated with the largest opposition bloc in Georgia has been sentenced to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Four Russian climbers have been rescued from Svaneti, a mountain region north in Georgia adjacent to the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Prices for all types of fuel have gone up 5 tetri in Georgia, which is a two ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The former member of the Georgian parliament and mafia boss Bondo Shalikian has been shot and killed ...

by Dieter Boden, former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Georgia 1. Lessons to be learnt On 14 August it ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Four years after the war between Russia and Georgia, which led to hundreds of deaths, occupation of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Now that the date of Georgia's parliamentary elections has been set to October 1, political parties are ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The must-carry and must-offer principle is starting to have effect also around Georgia’s different regions. People living in ...

A Letter from Washington DC by Tedo Japaridze, former Georgian foreign minister, political advisor to Bidzina IvanishviliI shall wrap up my ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Groups in Georgia are concerned that a number of legislative changes will worsen the situation in regards ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The monthly number of visitors to Georgia continues to increase. The small country noted a 54 percent ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - There are 3 621 256 voters in Georgia, according to Central Election Commission's (CEC) preliminary data, which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The European Union is to help families affected by the July 19 storm in Georgia which levelled ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – In Georgia, the government's main competitor, Georgian Dream, claims that they support fair and free elections and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The popular newspaper Alia, which has been published in Georgia since 1995, has been fined about USD ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A company connected to the largest opposition bloc in Georgia has had its property sold at a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition Georgian Dream coalition Sunday continued showing off its support with a massive rally in Batumi, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A new report shows that legislative changes ushered in by the Georgian government to counter the influence ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Police have taken possession of a car belonging to Zurab Zviadauri, a Georgian who won gold in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new survey says that the fuel and food market in Georgia is an oligopoly.  The new study ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An auction is in progress to sell property seized from 17 people who donated money to political ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Iran is suspending the agreement with Georgia about visa free travel in connection with a conference of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A police employee threatened his cousin with a gun because he was a member of the opposition ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Activists for the governing party Saturday prevented President Saakashvili's main opponent, Bidzina Ivanishvili, from meeting with the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Saturday morning the deadline passed for when cable companies in Georgia will have to transmit three small ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Representatives of Georgian media Friday demonstrated in front of the chief prosecutor’s office in Tbilisi against the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian athlete says he might have been subject to political harassment at the London Olympics. July 28, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The prison ministry on Thursday reported that a prisoner has died at No 18 hospital. According to the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) will hold training courses about the electoral issues for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – By decision of Tbilisi City Court the bank accounts of Georgian Development Research Institutes (GDRI) were seized. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia will hold parliamentary elections on October 1. The announcement marks the beginning of the election campaign ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - 291 471 voters registered in Georgia are currently living abroad, while 26 000 are dead. These are the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Saakashvili's potential nemesis, the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, has lodged a an arbitration case against the Georgian government. Maya ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A rally was held Wednesday outside President Mikheil Saakashvili's residence in protest against the seizure of thousands ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia will hold parliamentary elections on October 1, 2012. Manana Manjgalade, spokesperson for President Mikheil Saakashvili, said this ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Another opposition sympathizer in Georgia has had his bank account frozen. By decision of Tbilisi City Court, all ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In a new report, Georgian Young Lawyers Association's (GYLA) concludes that the Georgian chief prosecutor's arguments for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Media organizations, cable operator companies, non-government organizations and the National Communication Commission (GNCC ) sat down together ...