Daily Archives: March 5, 2012

93 % voted for Putin in South Ossetia

By | March 5th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – 92.77% of the voters in South Ossetia voted for Vladimir Putin as president of Russia. In the other breakaway republic Abkhazia, 90.94% of voters supported Putin in the presidential elections. 15,839 voters participated in the election in South Ossetia, Ria […]

Budgetary Expenses and State Debt in Georgia

By | March 5th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

Social expenses comprised the largest share in the State budget of Georgia in 2011, with 30% of total expenses directed towards this category. Dynamics indicate clearly that the budget is getting more and more burdened by the social obligations, writes Irina Guruli, […]

Georgian minister stands by police story on controversial death

By | March 5th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Interior Minister says his ministry’s preliminary findings show that the death of a prisoner at a regional police station was an accident, but that it is outrageous that something like this could happen. Following the death of Solomon […]

Virtual Universe Keeps Turning into a Dynamo

By | March 5th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

President Saakashvili in his recent address to the Parliament referred to the entire opposition as ones locked in a virtual world who have completely lost touch with reality. Interestingly, the ruling team has crafted a virtual reality of another nature, one that manifests […]

From Post-Soviet to Soviet – Something has changed!

By | March 5th, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

‘Something’ really changed, because the party, the leader who called the collapse of the Soviet Empire the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century, in fact lost majority support from voters and was only able to retain power through falsification […]

Saakashvili unveils Grad, system used illegally in 2008 war

By | March 5th, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday unveiled another home produced weapon system; a Georgian version of the Grad multiple rocket launcher. According to the EU’s investigation into the August 2008 war, he ordered his army to use Grads, also […]