Democracy & Freedom Watch

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

TBILISI, DFWatch--Natia Mogeladze, head of the Financial Monitoring Service for political parties, resigned on Wednesday. According to the State Audit Office, ...

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

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

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

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

TBILISI, DFWatch--A new health insurance program became available to Georgians from Thursday. The program is open for citizens from the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili says he wants to sit down with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to talk about how to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili says his Georgian Dream coalition will agree to a demand put forth by President Mikheil ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava was charged with money laundering and embezzlement of the city's money, but not detained. Politicians from ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili, who will leave office in October, says that he doesn’t plan to leave politics, because this ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--President Mikheil Saakashvili demands that parliament allows him to use his constitutional right to address the nation from parliament. Thursday, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The National Movement (UNM) has lost one more member of Tbilisi City Council, but still has a majority of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The new government has decided to cancel tuition fees for many popular studies. Bachelor students in 14 fields ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The new government in Georgia has presented a 2013 budget of USD 5.3 billion. USD 4.4 billion ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The revenues into Georgia’s state accounts have decreased by USD 50.5 million lari compared to the budget. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgia’s Security Council, which is a body subordinate to the president, cannot prove what it has spent ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgia’s new government has now detailed what its priorities are by presenting a budget for next year ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The prosecutor’s office is considering to investigate the mayor of Tbilisi who feels offended that he wasn’t ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Six parliamentarians who left the former governing party of President Mikheil Saakashvili are officially recognized as a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The former ruling party accuses the new government of blackmailing and harassment, while the new government officials ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Another National Movement MP has left the parliamentary minority to become independent members of parliament. A group of ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara on Sunday held its first session, with all ...

The future Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Wednesday visited parliament to meet with the minority and answer their critical questions ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Bidzina Ivanishvivli, leader of the Georgian Dream coalition and future Prime Minister, says he will leave politics ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are voicing their opposition to a candidate for refugee minister in the new ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Five members of parliament (MPs) who were elected as representing the National Movement party declined to join ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgia’s eighth parliamentary assembly has three factions from the majority and three from the minority. 15 parliamentary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Groups in Georgia ask the new government to reconsider its candidate for refugee minister, after criticism for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgian Dream on Tuesday named the rest of its candidates for new government ministers. Bidzina Ivanishivli, Georgian Dream ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The National Movement party, which is now in opposition in Georgia, plans to set up several parliamentary ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The EU ambassador to Georgia thinks the ongoing process of transfer of power is another test for ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The new governing coalition will have as goal to establish a real multiparty system in Georgia, Georgian ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- President Mikheil Saakashvili promises Bidzina Ivanishvili to help in keeping the new government safe and to retain ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Five members of the United National Movement party in Tbilisi City Council left their faction and set ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The Georgian Dream coalition leader and likely prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili today named his candidates for government ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Negotiators for the government and Georgian Dream Monday held another round of consultations regarding the ongoing process ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- About 200 local and foreign businesspeople Friday gathered to meet with the winner of the parliamentary election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The winner of the aryparliament election, Georgian Dream, will from October 8 send representatives to each state ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- US Secretary of State has had a phone conversation with President Mikheil Saakashvili and Bidzina Ivanishvili, who ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The government of President Mikheil Saakashvili has picked the Parliament Speaker, Tbilisi Mayor, Secretary of the Security ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Negotiations a TV company and the government about installing satellite receivers have failed. The director of Maestro TV ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TBILISI, DFWatch - America will be expecting to see a democratic transition of power in Georgia in the presidential election ...

Journalists Wednesday responded to the wealthiest Georgian Bidzina Ivanishvili's call for them to form an alliance to unseat Mikheil Saakashvili, ...

The authorities in Georgia have stripped the country's richest man of his citizenship, just as he was preparing to launch ...

After being rejected by the journalists of Maestro TV, financier Bidzina Ivanishvili's has found new allies in the anti-Saakashvili grassroots ...

The financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is satisfied so far with the impact he has had, after announcing he would challenge the ...

Work to improve the Georgian election environment has ended as a draft has been sent off to the Council of ...

Support is mounting for the three imprisoned metallurgy workers in Kutaisi. According to their labor union, they have been forced ...

After reaching a hard-fought agreement with several opposition parties, the ruling party has introduced significant changes in the draft for ...