Daily Archives: February 23, 2012

Georgians blocked from Medvedev’s Facebook page

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

TBILISI, DFWatch – An online campaign against Russian president Dimitry Medvedev’s Facebook page led to comments in Georgian language being blocked by the administrator. The campaigners wanted to express their protest against Russian policy regarding […]

Continued pressure to change vague party financing rules

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TBILISI, DFWatch – Groups in Georgia Thursday continued their campaign against the new party financing rules which were ushered in last December. At different spots around Tbilisi and in several other towns there were demonstrations to highlight the threat posed by […]

Georgia arrests Bidzina Ivanishvili’s security chief

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TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian authorities have arrested the head of security at opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili’s ski resort. It was officers of the Georgian finance ministry’s investigative unit which arrested Revaz Mumladze, who is head of security at the billionaire’s […]

Protesting the destruction of old green lung

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TBILISI, DFWatch – On Dadiani Street in northern Tbilisi near Didube metro, there is a big old park called Kikvidze Park. Here, the government has decided to build another one of Georgia’s characteristic transparent glass police stations. A protest was launched against […]

Putin seeks brotherly relations with the Georgian people

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TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia hopes to restore friendly relations with the Georgian people, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says. “We have never equaled the Georgian government to the Georgian people. And I hope very much that this really brotherly people to us […]