DFW-admin In December 2013, Georgia signed the Association Agreement with the European Union during the Eastern Partnership summit held in Vilnius.The newly signed Association Agreement thus becomes the main treaty between Georgia and the EU and highlights key areas of cooperation.
The Agreement focuses
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four persons were detained on Wednesday after several incidents during two counter-rallies held at the main office of the Georgian Orthodox Church, the Patriarchate.
Participants at one rally came to protest against an epistle by the Georgian Patriarch
TBILISI, DFWatch–Rough Guides has listed Georgia as number five among the world’s top countries for tourism.
Rough Guide is a travel guidebook owned by Penguin Random House. The publication has selected the best tourist countries for 2014, and Ethiopia is
TBILISI, DFWatch–For the last 14 years, Kariata Tsimirbulatova has lived with her husband and four children in Duisi, a village in a valley in the northeastern part of Georgia near the border to Chechnya called Pankisi Gorge.
The members of her family have recently
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former official in the Saakashvili regime has been charged in a case involving Abu Ghraib-style sexually degrading treatment of detainees.
Megis Kardava, who has held several positions at law enforcement bodies in Georgia, has been out of the country
TBILISI, DFWatch–After a year of religious conflict in three Georgian villages, neither Christians nor Muslims are fully satisfied with the way the problem was solved.
The Christians do not exclude that conflict might erupt again, while the Muslims still have no
TBILISI, DFWatch–The talks between the parties in the 2008 Georgia-Russia war will meet in Geneva for another round of talks on March 25-26.
It is known that the OSCE heads of the meeting this time will be from Switzerland. The last round of Geneva talks was held
Almost two centuries ago, the Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote in an oft-cited verse “And would some Power the small gift give us/To see ourselves as others see us! /It would from many a blunder free us, /And foolish notion:/What airs in dress and gait would leave us, /And even devotion!”
TBILISI, DFWatch–UNICEF Georgia claims that since 2005, the government has made significant progress in reforming the child care system, but important challenges remain, such as child poverty, violence against children and weak child protection.
Currently, there are
TBILISI, DFWatch–Business and politics are tightly connected in Georgia, according to a new report by Transparency International.
The organization claims that some wealthy businessmen have been elected to the Georgian parliament and some members of the executive