Daily Archives: May 3, 2013

Romania recognizes Georgia’s neutral passports

By | May 3rd, 2013|Categories: In brief, News|Tags: |

A woman waiting for the bus in Sokhumi, Abkhazia. (DFWatch photo.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Romania has recognized Georgia’s so-called neutral travel documents, which are issued to people living in the breakaway territories Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgia’s Foreign Ministry received word of the decision Friday in a note from the […]

Surveillance footage shows vandalism at May Day rally

By | May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Society|Tags: |

Students acknowledge that they painted slogans on the walls of several buildings, but say the police also committed violations. (DFWatch photo.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Police on Thursday published footage from street surveillance cameras which shows how participants in a May Day rally damaged private property by spray painting slogans on city walls and damaging police cars and private cars. The students who […]

Georgia improves on press freedom list

By | May 3rd, 2013|Categories: Media, News|Tags: |

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia climbs 15 places on Freedom House’s latest list of press freedom around the world. On the list Freedom of the Press 2013, Georgia is listed as partly free in 96th place with 49 points, up from 111th place and 52 points the year before. […]