Daily Archives: February 10, 2012

Lazika: Democratic Deficit in Public Decision Making Process

By | February 10th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: , |

On December 4, 2011, the president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili announced an initiative to build a new city called “Lazika” in the West of Georgia, between Anaklia and Kulevi. The new city is supposed to be the largest after the capital, Tbilisi, and reach a population of about […]

Dzhioyeva regains consciousness, refuses to be sent away to Russia

By | February 10th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has regained consciousness in a hospital in Tskhinvali. Doctors want to transport her out of the breakaway republic and to Russia, but she refuses to be moved. It was just one day before she was going to hold […]

Media protests against photo ban in parliament

By | February 10th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Coalition for Media Advocacy says it is unacceptable to prevent journalists from bringing cameras into the session hall of the the Georgian parliament. It recently became known that there will be a photo ban in the new Georgian parliament building in […]

Wife of opposition financier to sue Georgia’s Saakashvili

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TBILISI, DFWatch – The wife of opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is suing Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, after he wrongfully revoked her citizenship. Saakashvili revoked Ekaterine Khvedelidze’s Georgian citizenship last October, at a time when […]