Daily Archives: June 19, 2014

Results canceled at two precincts after video shows fraud

By | June 19th, 2014|Categories: Elections, News|Tags: |

The government coalition claims a video published by National Movement which appears to show election fraud was staged. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Election results at two Georgian precincts were canceled Tuesday, as a result of a controversial video published by the National Movement party, which lost the local election in that area. The video is made by the organization Free Zone, which […]

Georgia improves its position on Global Peace Index

By | June 19th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Georgia climbed 28 places on the Global Peace Index 2014. (Click on image to visit the report web site.) TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has improved its standing on the latest Global Peace Index by 28 places and is now 111 among 162 countries. The index, which was published Thursday by the Institute for Economics and Peace, gave Georgia 2.22 points. It says Georgia […]

Georgian wins European junior wrestling championship

By | June 19th, 2014|Categories: News, Sport, Youth|Tags: , , |

Tarzan Maisuradze won the European junior wrestling championship in Katowice. (Photo by Sport Zone.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian wrestler Tarzan Maisuradze on Tuesday won the European junior wrestling championships in Katowice, Poland. Maisuradze won in Men’s Junior Freestyle 74 kg, defeating Konstantin Gkontsis from Greece, Murat Erturk from Turkey, […]

Georgia’s PM claims more power from the president

By | June 19th, 2014|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia wants to take away one more power from the president: the right to award two top awards. The awards in question are the Shota Rustaveli award and the National awards of Georgia. The government wants to give […]