Daily Archives: June 23, 2012

Saakashvili government will allow media diversity, temporarily

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

TBILISI, DFWatch – A leading lawmaker in Georgia has modified a statement he made yesterday, that the government will support a proposal from democracy campaigners. Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze yesterday said he and the ruling National Movement party will vote […]

Ivanishvili: I don’t own any companies in Georgia

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

TBILISI, DFWatch – Bidzina Ivanishvili, who has been fined USD 45 million but refuses to pay, says he doesn’t own shares in any Georgian companies. According to Ivanishvili’s official Facebook page, he says he no longer owns shares in Cartu Bank nor in any other […]

Internal refugees forced out of their homes

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

TBILISI, DFWatch – Nodar is a refugee from Abkhazia, the breakaway Georgian republic. He has lived with his family in an old hospital in Tbilisi. But in 2010, Nodar was informed that they had to vacate their home the next day. “They promised that we will have good […]

Georgia confronts the human trafficking trade

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

TBILISI, DFWatch – After the U.S. State Department published a report on human trafficking which indicated Georgia as a site of the illicit business, the Georgian Ministry of Justice responded by claiming to be a first tier country along with developed states as Germany. […]