Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch--Two small counter-rallies were held at the Prosecutor’s Office on Saturday in Tbilisi. The organizers of one rally, ‘The law ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The president of PACE will arrive in Georgia May 28 for a two-day visit. Jean-Claude Mignon, President of the Parliamentary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Preparations are ongoing in Georgia for the Independence Day celebration Sunday, May 26. Government officials say there will not be ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Two more persons have been charged with violence on May 17, when a rally against homophobia was disrupted by ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Two opposing rallies about very sensitive social issues went ahead peacefully in downtown Tbilisi Friday. People gathered at 18:00 to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, has approved the main directions of development of the ministry and Georgia’s armed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The two opposing sides in Georgia's gay rights debate are to hold demonstrations at the same spot in Tbilisi ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Workers at the Chiatura Mining and Enrichment Plant will May 25 join the strike at the Zestaponi Ferroalloy Plant, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A session of the NATO Georgia commission was held May 22 in Brussels. Ambassadors discussed the planned visit to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Former AC Milan player Kakhi Kaladze's farewell match on May 31 is getting closer and people are already queuing ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Interior Ministry in Georgia says it is charging two high-ranking clerics who work for the country's Orthodox church. (Article ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili on Thursday was moved from Kutaisi, in western Georgia, to the capital, and placed ...

TBILISI--Kutaisi City Court Wednesday placed former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili in pretrial detention. Zurab Chiaberashvili was released on bail. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian Orthodox Church separates itself from the violent incidents of May 17, when clerics disrupted LGBT activists from ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The City Court in Kutaisi will this afternoon decide whether to place Saakashvili ally Vano Merabishvili and National Movement ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Hundreds workers of Georgia’s large ferroalloy plant in Zestaponi are continuing their strike and do not plan to give ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says that church prayer isn't an excuse for anyone to violate the law. The PM on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police have detained four persons suspected of resisting police and petty hooliganism on May 17, when Orthodox Christians held ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police in Georgia have detained former Interior Minister and Saakashvili faithful Vano Merabishvili. He is charged with sabotaging the investigation ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The foreign ministry and the president's administration in Georgia are embroiled in a quarrel over who is to blame ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Metal workers in Zestaponi in western Georgia are on strike and have paralyzed the functioning of a plant which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili again asks members of the Georgian Dream coalition to go on visits abroad together with him. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Former political prisoners on Sunday held people’s congress at Sport’s Palace in Tbilisi in order to demand the restoration ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police Day was marked in Georgia May 19. It was supposed to have been held on May 6, but ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A peaceful rally to protest Friday’s violent clashes went ahead without serious incidents outside the government office on Saturday. In ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--After the violence yesterday, a gathering is planned today Saturday outside the government building on Ingorokva Street 7 at ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian church is distancing itself from the violence on May 17, but maintains that LGBT propaganda is not ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Orthodox Christian activists Friday successfully prevented a peaceful demonstration to mark the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--According to preliminary data, Georgia’s foreign trade turnover has decreased by four percent in the months January through April ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The bodies of three militants who died in a border shooting in August 2012 were Thursday reburied in Duisi, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The three Georgian soldiers who May 13 died in Afghanistan were today brought back to Georgia. The bodies of Corporal ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, has declared May 16 a day of mourning as a tribute to those ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Prosecutor’s Office and the Prison Ministry have discovered a secret archive of prison videos. At a meeting with journalists, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Gela Khvedelidze, the Deputy Interior Minister accused of leaking a sex tape, is free on USD 3 000 bail ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--After touring the United States for several days in the beginning of May, President Mikheil Saakashvili is back on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Ten of the 27 wounded Georgian soldiers in an insurgent attack have returned to duty in the ISAF mission ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A strong hailstorm hit Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region Monday, almost completely destroying fruits and crops in five villages. Giorgi Sibashvili, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian soldiers who were wounded in yesterday’s attack in Afghanistan are in a satisfactory health condition and have ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A group of eight persons will study crimes commited during and after the Russia-Georgia war in August, 2008. Following a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--An announced gay rights rally is causing outrage among different groups in Georgia who plan to interrupt the rally ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Three Georgian soldiers died on Monday in Afghanistan in a large attack by insurgents. There are wounded soldiers as ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili has vetoed two bills passed by parliament. One of the bills is about amendments to the Civil ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Ministry of Internal Affairs has agreed with the Prosecutor’s Office to immediately destroy a ‘dirty archive’ of compromising ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The deputy interior minister has been detained for posting a sex video on the Internet allegedly involving a journalist ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishivli calls on President Mikheil Saakashvili to set a date for the presidential election. Representatives of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili left a restaurant in Tbilisi before there broke out a scuffle between several well-known politicians. Three members ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--21 percent more foreigners visited Georgia in April 2013 than in the same month the year before. In the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian Dream coalition has chosen Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili as its candidate for president in the upcoming ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The ruling Georgian Dream coalition is preparing a bill to decriminalize the use of marihuana. Head of parliament's human rights ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The government in Georgia has decided to change the ownership of the Richard G Lugar Public Health Research Center ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--May 9, “EU Day” was observed in its member countries. Also in Georgia, which is not a member, the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Members of the two main political blocs in Georgia are discussing who might be their candidate for the presidential ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Eleven more Georgia citizens have been released from their detention by Russian soldiers. They were detained earlier in May ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Tbilisi City Court has fined five participants at a May Day rally in Tbilisi with 400 GEL (USD 240). ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Human right organizations and gay rights activists plan a flash mob event May 17 outside the old parliament building ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Robert Mueller, director of the US federal police FBI, has paid a visit to Georgia in connection with the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Authorities in Georgia Wednesday conducted a somewhat belated autopsy of the bodies of some of the dead in a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Parliamentarians from the coalition of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and the National Movement (UNM) party of President Saakashvili on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Twelve Georgian citizens were Tuesday released after having been detained by Russian soldiers for crossing the border of South ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian Dream coalition will name its candidate for president next week. At the end of the week, the coalition's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili discussed the construction of the Kars-Akhalkalaki railway with President Ilham Aliyev during his visit to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The rectors of two large universities in Georgia ask President Mikheil Saakashvili to use his right to veto a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A delegation from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) chaired by Wolfgang Grossruck, President of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia’s Public Defender says the eleven Chechen fighters who died in a shooting incident at the border between Georgia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia’s Orthodox Church celebrated Easter May Day 5, as the parish attended traditional prayers at churches around the country ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Paolo Maldini, Alessandro Costacurta, Andriy Shevchenko, Demetrio Albertini, Alessandro Nesta, these are among the confirmed names for football players ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Romania has recognized Georgia's so-called neutral travel documents, which are issued to people living in the breakaway territories Abkhazia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police on Thursday published footage from street surveillance cameras which shows how participants in a May Day rally damaged ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia climbs 15 places on Freedom House’s latest list of press freedom around the world. On the list Freedom of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Minister of Agriculture, Davit Kirvalidze, resigned on Thursday taking responsibility for a fraudulent scheme uncovered in his ministry ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili Wednesday continued his tour of the US and held meetings with Secretary of State John Kerry ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's Defense Minister Irakli Alasania said on Wednesday that in the past, there have been exceeded expectations about Germany's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--In Georgia the Ivanishvili government will consider halting the prosecution of former government officials as part of an initiative ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The new government expects Georgia to receive a membership action plan (MAP) next year. Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said this ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The plan to reopen a railway through breakaway Abkhazia came up during a NATO seminar in Tbilisi. Lawrence Scott Sheets, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Parliament is ready to listen to the president’s annual address to the nation, but the president may not show ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia is considering using biometric information to identify voters in the next election. A cross-faction group in parliament presented a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Zurab Abashidze, the Prime Minister’s Special Representative for Relations with Russia, will meet with Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gregory ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--‘A magical recipe for Georgia’s NATO integration without offending Russia is Georgia becoming an interesting country,’ says Prime Minister ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia won the 2013 European Judo Championships for men with three gold, three silver and one bronze medal, followed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian Dream coalition’s candidates have won the by-election in all three districts, according to preliminary results after counting ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said Friday that Georgia has softened its tone towards Russia in the new security doctrine. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili will announce his political bloc's candidate for president in one or two weeks. Mr Ivanishvili said ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Results published by the Central Election Commission after Saturday's by-election in Georgia show that all three Georgian Dream coalition ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--In Georgia, a by-election is underway in three election districts. Turnout is largest in Baghdati, a town in western ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--By-elections are held three places in Georgia on Saturday to fill seats in parliament that became vacant as the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia has its third European judo champion, after Avtandil Chrikishvili won gold medal in men’s 81 kg on Friday. Chrikishvili ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Ivanishvili government is making plans for a different kind of Independence Day celebration on May 26. Instead of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The parliament in Georgia will overturn President Saakashvili's veto against two judicial reform bills on May 1. Irina Imerlishvili, chair ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Two former inspectors at a prison in Rustavi, a town just south of Tbilisi, have been detained, suspected of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgian Lasha Shavdatuashvili Thursday won gold in the European Judo Championship in Budapest. This is Georgia's second gold in this ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's foreign trade turnover in the first three months of 2013 was USD 2 144 million. This is five ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Russian newspaper Izvestia accuses Georgia’s special services of having trained one of the brothers behind the recent Boston ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili kicked off his visit to the US by meeting with ex-president George W. Bush and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--US Secretary of State John Kerry has promised that he will visit Georgia. Kerry made the promise as he met ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia offers NATO to use the new Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway to ship equipment out of Afghanistan after the ISAF mission ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili has vetoed two law amendments passed by parliament as part of an effort to reform the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili has criticized Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili for remarks he made regarding two breakaway regions in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday presented his government's plans for creating new jobs, amending the labor legislation ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Next week President Mikheil Saakashvili plans to visit the US next week to meet with Vice President ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says the fact that there is a dialogue between Tbilisi and Moscow shouldn’t create the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police in Georgia have detained several hotel owners for providing space for organized prostitution. On Monday, the Interior Ministry informed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) plans to bring up the issue ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--92 percent of Georgians say they like Patriarch Ilia II, who for many years has been the most trusted ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--If public attitudes stay the same until fall, the Georgian Dream coalition's candidate will win the presidential election clearly, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The U.S. State Department has published a report on human rights which describes the October election in Georgia as ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's Ministry of Justice has produced a six-minute commercial to explain that a new ID card with a micro ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Supporters of President Mikheil Saakashvili's party, the National Movement, are speaking out against a former head of the domestic ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili will address the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg on Tuesday. His ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia may consider granting legal status to weddings conducted by the church. This issue will be studied in the near ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--In a speech Friday, President Mikheil Saakashvili accused the Georgian government of being ‘partly friendly towards Russia’. He was speaking ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The United National Movement (UNM) party of President Mikheil Saakashvili will be subject to intense scrutiny today as it ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Viktor Yushchenko, the former president of Ukraine, has jumped into a political squabble in Georgia by saying he is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Saakashvili’s National Movement party is holding a protest rally at the old parliament building in Tbilisi today. According to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has published details of the military employees who a few days ago harassed and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Transparency International Georgia (TIG) says the head of the commission that oversees and regulates the telecommunication and broadcasting sectors ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--For the third time the Refugee Ministry has discovered a warehouse where there has been kept products and household ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Two days before a planned rally by President Mikheil Saakashvili's United National Movement, the ruling Georgian Dream coalition accuses ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Members of Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party have taken the last two days off from work in parliament in ...

Tbilisi, DF Watch - President Mikheil Saakashvili says it was possible to avoid Russia-Georgian war of August 2008 only if ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili claims that a scathing attack on him by a former colleague was ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Locals in a village close to the Black Sea shore claim that a group of soldiers late at night ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Problems are building for the local population as drivers on a minibus route between Zestaponi and Samtredia, two small ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A message posted on Facebook allegedly by a former official who fled from Georgia after the October elections has ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--42 percent of Georgians think that Russia is a threat to Georgia, but that the threat is exaggerated. 26 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Most Georgians agree with a new constitutional amendment, which was recently passed and reduced the rights of the president. People ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The government in Georgia has not invited President Mikheil Saakashvili to the celebration of Independence Day May 26, which ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Mayor of Tbilisi Gigi Ugulava has threatened that any investigator involved in the planned new investigation of the 2008 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Thomas Hammarberg, the EU's Special Representative in Georgia, says both sides of in the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia’s prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is visiting Germany to participate in a conference organized by the German Marshall Fund. Part ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Ivanishvili government’s decision to launch a new investigation into the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008 is receiving a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Turkey has agreed to allow Georgian specialists to participate in the restoration of a Georgian the 7th century Ishkhani ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, says Georgia has a government which is ashamed of conducting an independence day parade and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The city assembly in Kutaisi, Georgia's second largest city, has dismissed its mayor by 14 votes against five. Besik Bregadze, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police in Georgia have detained a 45 year old woman who is suspected of making and selling pornographic photo ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says he doesn’t plan to cooperate with a new investigation of the Russia-Georgia war in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The e-commerce company PayPal will now offer its services in the country Georgia. It is not easy to get onto ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Eight villages were affected by the hailstorm April 10, which lasted about 20 minutes and destroyed crops, mainly peach ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The rehabilitation of the Georgian Ishkhani Monastery on Turkish territory has been partly suspended. The Ministry of Culture a few ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Police in Georgia have detained two prison employees for torturing and raping a prisoner in 2012. The detentions took place ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--After a second round of inspection, the Georgian mineral water Borjomi has been allowed to export to Russia. The watershed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A hailstorm Wednesday destroyed harvest and flooded the first floors of houses in the village Ruispiri in eastern Georgia. Information ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia’s prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has defended an initiative to investigate what happened during the war in 2008 between ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--In the next few days, Georgia will begin an evaluation of its own military actions during the war with ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has a clear message to President Mikheil Saakashvili: If you want to dismiss the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Despite having a broken arm, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili carried on his tour of Turkey Tuesday and met his ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Russia only respects larger states, therefore the Czech Republic cannot be mediator between Georgia and Russia, Czech foreign minister ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--April 9 Georgia remembered that it was 24 years since Soviet troops dispersed a peaceful protest in Tbilisi, and ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's education minister Giorgi Margvelashvili has announced that school books will be free for every pupil in 2013-2014. He made ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED) says people are still being fired for political reasons in Georgia ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has broken his arm while riding a bicycle during a visit to Turkey. He is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's justice minister says it is necessary to question President Mikheil Saakashvili about the Russian-Georgian war in August 2008. Minister ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Central Election Commission in Georgia has confirmed the list of candidates for the by-elections on April 27. The two ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Michael Aastrup Jensen and Boriss Cilevics from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will arrive in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili is on an official visit to Turkey, and has already held meetings with the Turkish ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Friday a round table discussion was held about the rehabilitation of historic Rabati castle in the south of Georgia, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Parliament has finally passed the bill about common courts after months of discussions. But the law still requires the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The de facto government of Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia has released six Georgians who were detained for ‘illegally ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The Georgian government on Friday defended Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili after he was listed in an article in the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia will conduct a population census November 5-19, 2014. An action plan is already ready and preparations for the census ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The number of prisoners in Georgia was reduced by 56.2 percent in the first quarter of 2013 compared to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The course of one of the main rivers in Georgia will not be changed, the energy minister said at ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Saakashvili’s National Movement party has lost its majority in Kutaisi city assembly. This is the second largest city in Georgia, ...

Turkey's ambassador to Georgia confirms that experts from Turkey have visited Rabati castle and requested certain ‘changes and improvements’ for ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - The head of Adjara police has been taken to hospital with convulsions and strong anxiety after he ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party is critical to a process to amend the law on the occupied territories. The amendment deals ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The government has announced a USD 3 million tender for the rehabilitation reconstruction of the old parliament building in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Several hundred prisoners have complained to the public defender’s office from September of 2012 until the end of the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) party is withdrawing a proposal to give amnesty to people guilty of financial ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili claims that the Ivanishvili government plans to make a deal with Turkey about removing Christian symbols ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--In 2014, Georgia will conduct its first population census in 25 years. This was decided by the State Coordination Commission ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia is waiting for confirmation from the European Union about whether to send military advisers to Mali to assist ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A new report says a growing number of people are complaining about assaults and threats from the police. The troubling ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Georgia eases sanctions for entering its breakaway regions without proper procedures prescribed by the law on occupied ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Rospotrebnadzor, a Russian state customer rights’ service, unexpectedly blocked comeback of Borjomi, the best-known Georgian mineral water ...

  Tbilisi, DFWatch - Illia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgian Orthodox Church, considers unacceptable to renew talks about adopting the European Charter ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - As Archil Kbilashvili, the Chief Prosecutor, said the president might be interrogated on the 2008 war between ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Abkhaz de facto leader was evidently informed that Russian Orthodox Church, unlike the Kremlin which recognized Abkhazia ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Georgia’s National Platform, an umbrella group of the tens of local NGOs, claims that information about current ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Seven members of Tbilisi City Assembly, all from the Saakashvili’s United National Movement, were summoned on Friday ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - A Georgian was released from prison by the breakaway region South Ossetia Friday. This was the third ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Ministry of Defense prepared two draft laws which, it argues, will increase its accountability before the parliament. The draft ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - The extent of damage after a storm March 23 continues to increase and has now reached about ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Georgia’s participation in the EU led mission in Mali is finally decided but the details has been ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Foreign ministers of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Turkey will be meeting on Thursday in Batumi, a city on ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The crew of a Georgian fishing boat Wednesday discovered the body of a man, 55, drifting in the Black ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - President Mikheil Saakashvili has signed the constitutional amendment which reduces his power, and it will be enforced ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - A second group of Russian experts who should have arrived in Georgia on March 25 to monitor ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - OSCE supports a draft law to reform Georgia's public broadcaster, but has some critical remarks. The organization's media ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch -  The Agricultural University got its authorization back on March 26, two weeks after it was suspended by ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch -President Saakashvili on Monday presented parliament with a list of five new ambassadors. The candidates are Khatuna Salukvadze for ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - Swiss Ambassador’s appealed to Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, besieged by some MEPs mostly from influential European People’s ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili has awarded the architects behind the rehabilitation of Bagrati Cathedral the Medal of Excellence shortly after ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The governing coalition in Georgia says parliament will listen to President Mikheil Saakashvili's annual address as soon as a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The constitutional amendments which reduce the powers of President Mikheil Saakashvili were passed on Monday by 114 votes against ...

Tbilisi, DFWAtch - President Saakashvili on Monday barred Parliament from voting on the bill which according to the government will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--It has caused strong reactions in Georgia that a one year old child died of hunger late at night ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--A storm that hit Georgia's Black Sea coast has inflicted losses of USD 1.8 million in the Adjara region ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The management of the metallurgical plant in Poti has fired nine employees the day after the port workers there ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - A tearing storm that hit Georgia on Sunday morning and has damaged infrastructure in Batumi city, the ...