Daily Archives: October 31, 2012

Former governing party demands to chair inquest board

By | October 31st, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The current parliamentary minority, which is made up of a party that governed Georgia for the last eight years, demand to have the position as chair of parliament’s temporary investigative commission. The minority introduced a draft law in […]

Caucasus Online’s former owner tells of surveillance

By | October 31st, 2012|Categories: News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The former owner of a telecommunication company claims that the company was under serious pressure, because he refused to install listening devices. Caucasus Online is one of the biggest telecommunication companies in Georgia. Its former owner, […]

Do we have an opposition in today’s parliament?

By | October 31st, 2012|Categories: Opinion|Tags: |

If we look at the current parliament through the eyes of an outside observer, then the question in the headline will become completely rhetorical. An outside observer will say that in the current parliament, there is Georgian Dream as majority, and the minority is […]

TV Sakartvelo becomes TV Tabula

By | October 31st, 2012|Categories: Media, News|Tags: , , |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian TV viewers will get a new channel in the near future, to be produced by the owners of the magazine Tabula. The new channel will be focused on news and will probably go on air in January 2013. The editor of the new channel will be Tabula […]

More than 700 prisoners to be released by late November

By | October 31st, 2012|Categories: News|

Tbilisi, DF Watch – Georgia’s new prison minister says the law about amnesty may come into force before November 23, and may apply to more than 700 prisoners, but he avoided specifying exactly how many prisoners may be released. Sozar Subari, Georgia’s […]