TBILISI, DFWatch - President Mikheil Saakashvili hopes a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU will make unemployment ...
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Saakashvili: Free trade will make unemployment disappear
by DFWatch staff | Mar 1
Young lawyers win suit against secret wiretapping powers
by DFWatch staff | Mar 1
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Constitutional Court has decided that parliament did not have the right to give prosecutors powers to ...
Georgian opposition party canvassing war refugees
by DFWatch staff | Mar 1
TBILISI, DFWatch - The political party For a Renewed Georgia will today open a regional office in Mtskheta-Mtianeti north of ...
Georgia hopes vocational training will remedy crisis
by DFWatch staff | Feb 29
TBILISI, DFWatch - From this year, Georgians who sign up with a private or vocational school for learning a new ...
Saakashvili promises health insurance to large families
by DFWatch staff | Feb 29
TBILISI, DFWatch - The president in Georgia promises health insurance for all large families from 2013. Mikheil Saakashvili was making his ...
Netherland to study Georgia’s health care system
by DFWatch staff | Feb 29
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili claims that the Netherlands wants to copy Georgia's health care system. He said this ...
EU to discuss visa action plan with Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Feb 29
TBILISI, DFWatch - EU foreign ministers have issued a paper setting out to integrate Georgia more in the Union. The paper ...
EU asks Georgia to hold democratic elections
by DFWatch staff | Feb 29
TBILISI, DFWatch - EU says parliamentary and presidential elections in Georgia should meet internationally recognized standards of democracy. A statement published ...
EU Commissioner in Tbilisi to forge free trade agreement
by DFWatch staff | Feb 28
TBILISI, DFWatch - The European Union’s commissioner for trade issues, Karel de Gucht, will arrive in Georgia today on February ...
Protest announced for Saakashvili’s address about country’s condition
by DFWatch staff | Feb 28
TBILISI, DFWatch - When Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili comes to parliament this evening to make his speech about the state ...
Georgian opposition movement not to reconsider NATO missions
by DFWatch staff | Feb 28
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s billionaire-backed opposition movement, Georgian Dream, is not going to reconsider the country’s participation in the ISAF ...
Georgia to host OSCE Economic Forum in May
by DFWatch staff | Feb 27
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Black Sea port of Batumi has been chosen as host for the OSCE Economic Forum in ...
Georgia unveils new combat vehicle
by DFWatch staff | Feb 25
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia today presented its new combat vehicle Lazika at the Vaziani military base not far from the ...
Saakashvili’s Facebook page blocked Russian users
by DFWatch staff | Feb 25
TBILISI, DFWatch - Friday evening, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili's Facebook page suffered a similar attack as his Russian counterpart Dimitry ...
Correction: Only one of Ankvab’s guards died in attack
by DFWatch staff | Feb 24
TBILISI, DFWatch - Only one of Abkhazian de facto president Alexander Ankvab's guards died after Wednesday's assassination attempt. In the immedate ...
Turkey is Georgia’s most important trade partner
by DFWatch staff | Feb 24
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's largest trading partner is Turkey, just like before, according to fresh data of from January 2012. According ...
Georgians blocked from Medvedev’s Facebook page
by DFWatch staff | Feb 23
TBILISI, DFWatch - An online campaign against Russian president Dimitry Medvedev’s Facebook page led to comments in Georgian language being ...
Putin seeks brotherly relations with the Georgian people
by DFWatch staff | Feb 23
TBILISI, DFWatch - Russia hopes to restore friendly relations with the Georgian people, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says. “We have ...
Abkhazian leader Ankvab survives, guards dies
by DFWatch staff | Feb 22
TBILISI, DFWatch - Wednesday morning the de facto president of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia was attacked while in his car ...
Georgian accused of 2007 plot released on bail
by DFWatch staff | Feb 21
TBILISI, DFWatch - The former member of parliament accused of planning a coup d’état in 2007 was released on bail. Georgian ...
Georgia’s new party finance rules to be reworked
by DFWatch staff | Feb 21
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze is asking parliament to change the recently introduced party finance rules ...
Saakashvili to give state of the nation address next week
by DFWatch staff | Feb 21
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will hold his annual state of the nation address in parliament's next week. The ...
Change of U.S. Ambassador is ordinary event
by DFWatch staff | Feb 20
TBILISI, DFWatch - The change of U.S. Ambassador to Georgia is routine, says the embassy's press service. ‘Ambassadors are replaced once ...
Ex-MP arrested for coup attempt as crosses border to Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Feb 20
TBILISI, DFWatch - A former parliamentarian has been arrested in Georgia today just as he entered the country from Armenia. Valeri ...
Obama proposes Norland as new U.S. Ambassador to Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Feb 19
TBILISI, DFWatch - Barack Obama has proposed Richard Boyce Norland as new U.S. ambassador to Georgia. The President proposed Norland as ...
Georgia to build new coal power station
by DFWatch staff | Feb 17
TBILISI, DFWatch - The former Soviet republic of Georgia is going to construct a new coal power station in the ...
Georgian authorities deny sabotaging opposition TV
by DFWatch staff | Feb 17
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's Revenue Service says it can not understand the charges made by a billionaire opposition politician that ...
Georgia extends military service to 15 months
by DFWatch staff | Feb 16
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's defense ministry says the current twelve month service length is not enough to properly prepare persons ...
Suspected bomb found outside Russian consulate in Tbilisi
by DFWatch staff | Feb 15
TBILISI, DFWatch - A suspected explosive device was reported to have been found outside Russia's consulate in Tbilisi Wednesday. However, it ...
Finding Israel embassy bomber is first priority for Georgian leader
by DFWatch staff | Feb 14
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia is giving the highest priority to investigating Monday's foiled bombing attempt against the car of an ...
Terror suspect arrested, ‘unrelated’ to embassy attacks
by DFWatch staff | Feb 14
TBILISI, DFWatch - A terror suspect was arrested in Zugdidi Tuesday, but Georgian authorities deny that it is linked with ...
Georgian president to brief own party after Obama visit
by DFWatch staff | Feb 13
TBILISI, DFWatch - Today at 17:00 the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili will meet representatives of the parliamentary majority at his ...
Georgian parliament saves its moderate minority
by DFWatch staff | Feb 13
TBILISI, DFWatch - In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, the bigger parties are giving away representatives in an apparent ...
Media protests against photo ban in parliament
by DFWatch staff | Feb 10
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Coalition for Media Advocacy says it is unacceptable to prevent journalists from bringing cameras into the ...
Wife of opposition financier to sue Georgia’s Saakashvili
by DFWatch staff | Feb 10
TBILISI, DFWatch - The wife of opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is suing Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, after he ...
Abkhazia to ask EU to recognize homemade passports
by DFWatch staff | Feb 9
TBILISI, DFWatch - Abkhazia wants the EU to recognize the Georgian breakaway region's own passports as valid travel documents, just ...
Ivanishvili takes part in street protest for the first time
by DFWatch staff | Feb 9
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili calls for the government to investigate a police special operation in 2006 which ...
Georgia notes record number of visitors, but are they tourists?
by DFWatch staff | Feb 9
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia recorded a record number of visitors entering the country in January 2012. According to data from the ...
Georgia hit by up to two meters of snow, schools closed
by DFWatch staff | Feb 8
TBILISI, DFWatch - Snowy weather is creating difficulties in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The whole country is currently ...
Medvedev wants to reestablish trade relations with Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Feb 7
TBILISI, DFWatch - Russian President Dimitry Medvedev says the Russian and Georgian people should have relations and thinks it's therefore ...
Saakashvili ducks issue of following in Putin’s footsteps
by DFWatch staff | Feb 7
TBILISI, DFWatch - There is growing uncertainty about whether the Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili may stay on as prime minister ...
Ban Ki-moon discussed security with Georgia’s foreign minister
by DFWatch staff | Feb 6
TBILISI, DFWatch - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has been in contact with the foreign minister of Georgia to ...
Georgia does not consider role in US-Iran conflict
by DFWatch staff | Feb 6
TBLISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Speaker of Parliament says that there is no talk of Georgia having a role in ...
Georgia’s Saakashvili: U.S. started sending troops in 2008 Russia war
by DFWatch staff | Feb 5
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president says Russia stopped its attack in August 2008 after the United States started deploying ...
Europe’s biggest shopping mall just built, in Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Feb 4
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president says Georgia already is the biggest trade hub in the Caucasus region and that ...
Georgia to boost defense following Saakashvili’s U.S. trip
by DFWatch staff | Feb 4
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Defense Minister signals that his country will strengthen its military capability. Bacho Akhalaia made the statement ...
Saakashvili: New phase of military cooperation
by DFWatch staff | Feb 4
TBILISI, DFWatch - “The military cooperation between Georgia and USA is entering a completely new stage, which means that Georgia ...
Saakashvili defends his government’s successes
by DFWatch staff | Feb 3
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president says the Georgian government has delivered on its promises. He said this during a speech at ...
Increased public fees helped root out corruption: Saakashvili
by DFWatch staff | Feb 3
TBILISI, DFWatch - During a speech at Georgetown University in Washington, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili said that his first presidential ...
Russia-Georgia border hit by bad weather
by DFWatch staff | Feb 2
TBILISI, DFWatch - Snowfall and strong winds are making trouble for people all over Georgia. More than 72 000 were ...
Saakashvili’s account of Obama meeting challenged
by DFWatch staff | Feb 1
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president says the results of his meeting with U.S. president Barack Obama exceeded his expectations. President ...
U.S. to take more active role in building Georgia’s defense
by Rusiko Machaidze | Feb 1
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says that his country's military cooperation with the United States is moving into ...
Obama and Georgia’s Saakashvili did not discuss Iran
by DFWatch staff | Jan 31
TBILISI, DFWatch - According to the Georgian president’s administration, Iran was not on the agenda of Monday's meeting between U.S. ...
Georgia hopeful about new ‘Swiss’ border checks
by admin | Jan 28
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze hopes that Switzerland will be able to fully monitor the ...
Georgia answers Medvedev’s invitation: ‘Any time’
by DFWatch staff | Jan 26
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s foreign minister says his country never refused to restore negotiations with Russia. Grigol Vashadze made the statement ...
Medvedev wants to restore diplomatic relations with Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Jan 26
TBILISI, DFWatch - Russian president Dimitry Medvedev says he wants to restore diplomatic relations with Georgia. But the president adds, only ...
Saakashvili to also meet Biden and Boehner
by DFWatch staff | Jan 25
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili plans to meet other top people while he's over to talk with ...
Georgian president questions Human Rights Watch report
by DFWatch staff | Jan 25
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, says through his press speaker that he may not agree with everything ...
Kitsmarishvili lost suit to claim Ivanishvili TV
by DFWatch staff | Jan 24
TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi City Court did not grant Rustavi Media Management Company's request to sequester TV Company Igrika ltd. The ...
Ruling party mobilizing, gathering passport numbers
by DFWatch staff | Jan 23
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's ruling party has already started mobilizing supporters, before a date for the parliamentary election has been ...
Georgia will support West in case of Iran crisis
by DFWatch staff | Jan 22
TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian parliamentarian from the governing party says his country will support the West in case of ...
Georgia not in talks about U.S. missile shield
by DFWatch staff | Jan 21
TBILISI, DFWatch - Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze says there are currently no negotiations with the United States about deployment ...
Four Georgian survivors from ‘Edirne’ return today
by DFWatch staff | Jan 20
TBILISI, DFWatch - The four surviving Georgian crew members from a Turkish tanker that sank off the coast of Albania ...
Abkhazian leader opposed to neutral passports
by DFWatch staff | Jan 19
TBILISI, DFWatch - The leader of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia is opposed to so-called neutral passports being introduced. Neutral identity papers ...
Obama to discuss fall election with Saakashvili
by DFWatch staff | Jan 18
TBILISI, DFWatch - U.S. president Barack Obama will host his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili in the Oval Office on January ...
Georgian died after explosion on Turkish tanker
by DFWatch staff | Jan 16
TBILISI, DFWatch - One Georgian crew member and the Azerbaijani captain have died after a Turkish tanker sunk off the ...
Tbilisi mayor’s 2010 campaign to be scrutinized
by DFWatch staff | Jan 16
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian Chamber of Control is looking closer at the financial activities of an organization which campaigned ...
Opposition politician released
by DFWatch staff | Jan 16TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia has released an opposition politician who was arrested Saturday on charges of illegal possession of weapon. Elguja ...
Opposition politician arrested in Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Jan 14TBILISI, DFWatch - Police yesterday evening arrested the regional leader of the opposition Free Democrats party in the town of ...
Georgian sailors held hostage return home
by DFWatch staff | Jan 14
TBILISI, DFWatch - The fifteen Georgians who had been held captive by Somali pirates returned home yesterday. They were released ...
Green Party warns of ecological catastrophe
by DFWatch staff | Jan 13
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Green Party claims a hydroelectric project in Turkey will divert too much water from Mtkvari, possibly ...
Georgia returns money taken in raid against bank
by DFWatch staff | Jan 13TBILISI, DFWatch - The cash which authorities in Georgia took into custody in an armed police raid last October has ...
National Bank shared information about Ivanishvili
by DFWatch staff | Jan 13TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s party finance watchdog claims it obtained information about the financial activities of the Georgian Dream movement ...
Georgia’s capital is on the move
by DFWatch staff | Jan 12TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is moving yet another state body closer to Europe -- at least a ...
Georgian tycoon-politician might use wife to form party
by DFWatch staff | Jan 12TBILISI, DFWatch - Ekaterine Khvedelidze, wife of the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili is going to set up a new political ...
Fox reaffirms UK’s military ties with Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Jan 11
TBILISI, DFWatch - British conservative politician Liam Fox calls the administrative border around the Tskhinvali region ‘the occupation line between Free ...
Georgian media: One for all, all for one
by DFWatch staff | Jan 9
TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's crisis-stricken free media have agreed on a new plan to react against outside interference in their ...
Georgian hostages in Somalia to be released
by DFWatch staff | Jan 8
Fifteen Georgian sailors who have been held hostage by Somali pirates for a year and a half are expected to ...
Georgian soldier dies in Afghanistan
by DFWatch staff | Jan 7
TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian corporal has died in Afghanistan while serving in the ISAF mission. This is the twelfth Georgian ...
Party finance boss’ neutrality questioned
by DFWatch staff | Jan 6TBILISI, DFWatch - Opposition parties in Georgia object against the appointment of an employee at the Ministry of Justice as ...
Detainees may register at university
by DFWatch staff | Jan 5TBILISI, DFWatch - Youth who are sentenced to administrative detention in Georgia will be guaranteed that they will be able ...
New restrictions on prisoner belongings
by DFWatch staff | Jan 4
TBILISI, DFWatch - Prisoners in Georgia will no longer have the right to watch DVDs and receive certain kinds of ...
Used cars is Georgia’s export article no 1
by DFWatch staff | Jan 4
TBILISI, DFWatch – Used cars has become Georgia’s most important export article, accounting for 21% of all exports in 2011. Second ...
Eleventh Georgian soldier dies in Afghanistan
by DFWatch staff | Jan 3
TBILISI, DFWatch - Corporal Besik Niniashvili was serving in Helmand province with the Third Infantry Brigade’s 31th light infantry battalion ...
Prisoners pardoned
by DFWatch staff | Dec 31
TBILISI, DFWatch - The President pardoned 114 convicts today, according to the Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance. 75 prisoners, four ...
Why, Mr President?
by DFWatch staff | Dec 30
TBILISI, DFWatch - Democracy activists and rights groups descended on president Saakashvili's palace in Tbilisi's Avlabari district Thursday to protest ...
US embassy’s statement
by DFWatch staff | Dec 29The US Embassy has released a statement regarding the changes to the Georgian Electoral Code and the legislation regarding campaign ...
President signed controversial campaign finance law
by DFWatch staff | Dec 29TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian president has signed the law about political associations of citizens, which imposes restrictions on campaign ...
Gov’t postpones media monitoring debate
by DFWatch staff | Dec 28TBILISI, DFWatch - The ruling party in Georgia has postponed until spring to decide how to monitor the media before ...
Ivanishvili appeals court ruling
by DFWatch staff | Dec 27
TBILISI, DFWatch - A businessman has decided to appeal a court decision given today which upholds president Mikheil Saakashvili's decision ...
Citizenship decision today
by DFWatch staff | Dec 27
TBILISI, DFWatch - Will a city court in Georgia dare to go against the country’s president? By Tuesday afternoon this ...
Journalists compensated for May 26 violence
by Mari Nikuradze | Dec 26
TBILISI, DFWatch - Three of the journalists who were beaten and shot by police on May 26, 2011, will be ...
Ivanishvili renounces Russian citizenship
by DFWatch staff | Dec 26TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili has renounced his Russian citizenship. This comes while there is only one ...
Decision in journalist beatings case
by DFWatch staff | Dec 26
TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi City Court will today announce its decision about compensation for the journalists who were beaten and ...
Last chance to adjust election system
by DFWatch staff | Dec 23TBILISI, DFWatch - Today several laws are up for revision which will change Georgia's election system and set the ground ...
Georgia to allow conscientious objection
by DFWatch staff | Dec 22TBILISI, DFWatch - Citizens of Georgia will be allowed to apply for an alternative service to the military, based on ...
Battling poverty through pearly whites
by DFWatch staff | Dec 22TBILISI, DFWatch - President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, is embarking on a bold new plan to repair the teeth of ...
Martens supports Georgia’s ruling party
by DFWatch staff | Dec 22
TBILISI, DFWatch - Belgian veteran politician Wilfried Martens says he supports the party of Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, the National ...
Businessman has a backup plan
by DFWatch staff | Dec 22TBILISI, DFWatch - The businessman who is trying to claim power in Georgia has a plan for what to do ...
Citizenship case continues today
by DFWatch staff | Dec 22
TBILISI, DFWatch - Tbilisi City Court 10 am today continued hearing the case of businessman Bidzina ivanishvili and his wife ...
6.2% growth in 2011
by Rusiko Machaidze | Dec 21TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia will have 6.2% growth in the economy in 2011. But the prices will have increased 10.5%. In ...
President Saakashvili, don’t kill the press!
by DFWatch staff | Dec 19
TBILISI, DFWatch - Today many Georgian newspapers are running the same slogan on their frontpage: "President Saakashvili, don't kill the ...
WTO signed Russia up as member
by DFWatch staff | Dec 17TBILISI, DFWatch - After an eighteen year long struggle, Russia on Friday finally signed the document which formally makes it ...
‘Georgia’s C-SPAN’ had filming interrupted
by DFWatch staff | Dec 15
TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition lawmaker has accused a Georgian politics channel of having been pressured by the government to ...
New protests in Tskhinvali today
by DFWatch staff | Dec 15
TBILISI, DFWatch - The opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva in Georgia’s breakaway republic South Ossetia is calling for supporters to return ...
‘Ashton to probe Ivanishvili case’
by DFWatch staff | Dec 15
TBILISI, DFWatch - The European Union’s foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton is going to confront the Georgian government about the ...
Warns of Russian border raid
by DFWatch staff | Dec 14TBILISI, DFWatch - A Georgian parliamentarian warns that a statement from Russia's chief security adviser could signal Russian military action of the ...
Strong opposition bloc being formed in Georgia
by DFWatch staff | Dec 14TBILISI, DFWatch - The businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili is to form an election bloc and aims at running in next year’s ...
Journalist claims Ivanishvili censored her
by DFWatch staff | Dec 14TBILISI, DFWatch - A journalist working for the Georgian online television Presage.tv has left her job, saying businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili ...
Criticizes prisoner mistreatment
by DFWatch staff | Dec 13
Georgia’s ombudsman has published a new report which lays out the situation in the country’s detention centers, saying the situation ...
Joint statement regarding the situation in Russia
by DFWatch staff | Dec 13The Foreign Relations Committee and the Diaspora and Caucasus Issues Committee of Georgia’s parliament has made a joint statement regarding ...
Police and defense get a fifth of 2012 budget
by DFWatch staff | Dec 10
Defense and police get 19 % of the total state budget next year. This represents a quarter of direct appropriations ...
South Ossetian leader resigns
by DFWatch staff | Dec 10
TBILISI, DFWatch - South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity today resigned as part of a deal with the opposition which ...
Warns against new definition of ‘refugee’
by DFWatch staff | Dec 9TBILISI, DFWatch - The pressure group Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) warns that a new, narrower definition of what it ...
Shooting in Tskhinvali
by DFWatch staff | Dec 9TBILISI, DFWatch - Six cars and a bus were shot at in Tskhinvali last night, according to the news agency ...
Decisive citizenship case postponed
by DFWatch staff | Dec 8TBILISI, DFWatch - A court case which could decide the future of Georgia has been postponed due to a judge’s illness. Georgian ...
Abkhazia to claim customs tax on Georgian goods
by DFWatch staff | Dec 7TBILISI, DFWatch - Alexander Ankvab, the newly elected leader of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia, says that it’s necessary to establish ...
‘No revolution’: South Ossetian candidate
by DFWatch staff | Dec 7TBILISI, DFWatch - Alla Dzhioyeva, the candidate who apparantly won the so-called presidential elections in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia, ...
Improved corruption ranking
by DFWatch staff | Dec 4TBILISI, DFWatch - According to the latest ranking from Transparency International, the perceived level of corruption in Georgia has improved ...
Ossetian opposition to appeal to Supreme Court
by DFWatch staff | Dec 4TBILISI, DFWatch - The Supreme Court in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia will Monday decide when to hear the case ...
Georgia had real veto power
by DFWatch staff | Dec 3TBILISI, DFWatch - National Security Council Secretary Giga Bokeria, who was involved in the Swiss meditated talks between Russia and ...
Georgia is a partner of ‘the civilized world’
by DFWatch staff | Dec 3TBILISI, DFWatch - According to National Security Council Secretary Giga Bokeria ‘Georgia appeared as sensible and flexible partner of the ...
Switzerland will establish border monitoring
by DFWatch staff | Dec 3TBILISI, DFWatch - A new border monitoring force between Georgia and Russia will be put together by Switzerland. Sergi Kapanadze, Georgia’s ...
Tbilisi TV producer leaves
by DFWatch staff | Dec 3TBILISI, DFWatch - Mamuka Glonti, producer in chief and co-founder Maestro TV, has left his post. He announced this on ...
‘Clan rivalry’ behind unrest in Tskhinvali
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2TBILISI, DFWatch - National Security Council Secretary Giga Bokeria claims that there is a confrontation between clans in so-called South ...
Ivanishvili to support the press
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili promises to support and help Georgian print media. Lasha Tugushi, editor in-chief of the daily ...
Which ranking to choose?
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2TBILISI, DFWatch - Prime Minister Nika Gilauri recently claimed that Georgia is number one tourism country in the South Caucasus ...
South Ossetian opposition to boycott Russian Duma election
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2TBILISI, DFWatch - Part of the population in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia will boycott the Russian elections for ...
Lawyer on hungerstrike
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2TBILISI, DFWatch - A famous Georgian lawyer is in his sixth day of hunger strike, protesting against the lack of ...
City Hall didn’t expect press’ reaction
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2TBILISI, DFWatch - Zaza Gabunia, representative of the opposition Christian Democrats in Tbilisi City Council, claims that ‘the dismantling the ...
Vaulted into an Imedi scandal
by DFWatch staff | Dec 2He scaled the 3 meter wall in the early morning dusk and bolted into the yard as effortlessly as a panther. ...
Maestro appeals for people to stay the night
by DFWatch staff | Nov 30TBILISI, DFWatch - As police peeped in through his locked studio door, Maestro TV's producer Mamuka Glonti appealed to viewers ...
Young lawyers concerned about press freedom
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA) supports the Press Association rally Tuesday and says Tbilisi City Hall is ...
Republicans also against newsstand scheme
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - The Republican Party expresses solidarity with distributors and publishers of print media and joins the Press Association ...
Walked 250 km for democracy
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - Three supporters of the Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili walked for five days and nights to support his ...
Tskhinvali’s election commission gagged
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - The election commission in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia has been forbidden by the supreme court ...
Kiosk owners asked to boycott censorship plan
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - Coalition for Freedom of Choice expresses solidarity with the print media regarding a new system for kiosks ...
Saakashvili’s opponent joins press protest
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - Tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili expresses solidarity with the Georgian Press and is joining them in a protest outside ...
Media coalition joins protest
by DFWatch staff | Nov 29TBILISI, DFWatch - Coalition of Media Advocacy is expressing its solidarity with Georgian newspapers which are facing a dire threat ...
‘Not an election’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 28TBILISI, DFWatch - “What is happening in the Tskhinvali region can not be called elections,” Davit Bakradze, Georgian Speaker of ...
Saakashvili’s opponent allowed to start movement
by DFWatch staff | Nov 28TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili’s press office Monday announced that the Public Registry has finally registered the movement ...
Opposition leads in Tskhinvali
by DFWatch staff | Nov 28TBILISI, DFWatch - Oppositional candidate Alla Dzhioyeva is leading and might win the second round of the election in Georgia's ...
‘Georgia world leader in fighting corruption’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 26TBILISI, DFWatch - The whole world is taking note of how Georgia is tackling corruption, at least according to Prime ...
‘Access to Russian market crucial’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 26TBILISI, DFWatch - Christian Democrat leader Giorgi Targamadze says that improving relations with Russia is crucial to Georgia’s economic development. The ...
PM: Tourism is booming
by DFWatch staff | Nov 26TBILISI, DFWatch - “Georgia is the main tourist country in the region and we will see better results in the ...
Doubts about gov’t employment plan
by DFWatch staff | Nov 26Parliamentary faction Christian Democratic Movement demands that the government presents statistics about an employment program implemented before the elections in ...
PM: ‘Thousands of investors coming’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri claims that “hundred and thousand times more investors are planning to come ...
‘Elite corruption’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Jondi Baghaturia, representative of the parliament faction Unity for Justice and the leader of the Georgian Group ...
‘Nepotism’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Jondi Baghaturia, representative of the parliamentary faction Unity for Justice and leader of the Georgian Group Party ...
‘Georgia one of world’s healthiest economies’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - “Going by macro-economic parameters, Georgia is one of the healthiest countries in the world,” Georgian Prime Minister ...
Will Georgia’s population be halved?
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - The Christian Democrats in parliament argue that comparing the specific numbers in the government’s 10-point plan’s to ...
Strong growth in GPD
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s Prime Minister Nika Gilauri says that gross domestic product (GDP) per capita will be 3 100 ...
‘No threat of recession’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri says ‘there is no threat of economic recession in the country’ due ...
Christian Democrats wants kiosk plan changed
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Christian Democrats has asked City Hall to directly transfer a hundred booths to newspapers and distributors within ...
Republicans shares press concern about kiosks
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - The Republican Party joins representatives of the Georgian press in expressing protest against Tbilisi City Hall’s decision ...
Informal alliance around Ivanishvili
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - The Republicans, Free Democrats and businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili’s team will be cooperating with eachother, but they have ...
Prison guards get more protection
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - It has become a criminal offense to threaten a jail worker or his family. A bill adopted by ...
Old taxes may be cancelled
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Some category of high income taxpayers will have their accumulated unpaid taxes until 2005 cancelled. This is foreseen ...
2011 budget passed
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia’s 2011 budget was passed Thursday after a debate in an almost empty parliament. In its revised form ...
‘Smear campaign’
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Giorgi Tsagareishvili, member of the Free Democrats Party, accuses the government of being engaged in a smear ...
Opposition talked to deaf ears
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - When the opposition bloc Unity for Justice had their thirty minutes in parliament Thursday, the rest of ...
Mega dams will go ahead regardless
by DFWatch staff | Nov 25TBILISI, DFWatch - Aleksandre Khetaguri, Georgia’s minister for energy and natural resources says two controversial hydropower projects in the west ...
Tbilisi boosts defense by 7%
by DFWatch staff | Nov 24TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia expands its defense budget by 7% next year. The growth is explained with the country’s need ...
Victims of Soviet repression lose compensation
by DFWatch staff | Nov 24TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian authorities have stopped paying compensation to families of people who were victim of Soviet repression, according ...
Did 219 million lari disappear?
by DFWatch staff | Nov 24
TBILISI, DFWatch - An opposition lawmaker accuses the government of having spent 219 million lari and trying to hide it ...
Georgia braces for Euro crisis impact
by DFWatch staff | Nov 24
TBILISI, DFWatch - The Georgian finance minister says the country will financially stand on its feet in 2012. Dimitri Gvindadze ...
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