Daily Archives: December 26, 2012

Ivanishvili and Aliyev discussed energy export

By | December 26th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili Tuesday met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during an official visit to Baku. The two held a closed meeting which took place at Aliyev’s Zagulba palace. Also present were Georgia’s Foreign […]

Earthquake hits Georgia again

By | December 26th, 2012|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — An earthquake hit Georgia Wednesday morning; the second one in three days. Two strong quakes were felt early morning December 26, at 02:44 and 03:00 am. According to the seismic monitoring center, the strength of the earthquakes were 5.5 and […]

Top-level corruption was rife in Georgia: NGO

By | December 26th, 2012|Categories: NGO news|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — Just as the Inter RAO corruption scandal is jolting the political scene in Georgia, a Georgian think tank claims to have revealed three further cases of what is called high level corruption. The Saakashvili government has been credited with having effectively […]

Georgia prison rape video was real

By | December 26th, 2012|Categories: News, Prisoner abuse|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has concluded an investigation of a handful of videos showing torture of prisoners which sparked protests two weeks before the election in October, 2012. The videos were published September 19, and showed […]