Daily Archives: January 23, 2012

Crisis avoided in South Ossetian power struggle

By | January 23rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch - The South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva calls off her protest and enters talks with the regime. Dzhioyeva said that consultations between the opposition and authorities will continue, according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti. On November 17 she withdrew from a compromise agreement and gave acting president Vadim Brovtsev until [...]

Ruling party mobilizing, gathering passport numbers

By | January 23rd, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's ruling party has already started mobilizing supporters, before a date for the parliamentary election has been announced. Georgian newspaper Mteli Kvira reports that the National Movement Party has begun compiling lists of of supporters around the various districts of Tbilisi. Party activists are going round collecting passport numbers of people who are [...]

A day in the life… of ‘Misha’

By | January 23rd, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch - Saturday was just another day for president Mikheil Saakashvili. But it dominated the news on Georgian national TV channels. The news was simply put that the president visited Rustavi, a small city just south of the capital Tbilisi, to talk to the locals about how things are going. This news story [...]