DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor General’s Office in Georgia on Tuesday charged four former officials for their handling of the dispersal of an anti-government rally in Tbilisi on May 26, 2011.
The four are charged with exceeding their official powers.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia arrested two men Monday who are suspected of robbing several banks and a convenience store in the Vazisubani district of Tbilisi two days earlier.
One of the men was arrested on the Armenian border at Sadakhlo,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ukrainian airline Dniproavia is beginning weekly flights to Tbilisi, Georgia, starting October 6.
Flights will have a duration of 2 hours and 25 minutes each way.
The airline has decided to use the Brazilian twin-engine jet Embraer 145, which is capable
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia condemned the election Sunday for the Russian State Duma inside the two breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) called on the international community to react against this
TBILISI, DFWatch–A 17-year-old Georgian who was detained Friday by Russian soldiers patrolling the border of South Ossetia was returned on Saturday.
Joni Gogichaishvili’s return was confirmed by the European Union Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM),
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards on Friday detained a 17-year-old Georgian near the border with South Ossetia.
The incident took place in the village Bershueti.
The detainee, Joni Gogichaishvili from the village Sobisi, was taken to the detention facility
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Black Sea coast was hit by strong rain on Friday, flooding the streets and inundating ground floors and basements in Batumi, a city of 150,000 people.
Emergency workers were still pumping out the flood water
from houses
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Cadets Military Lyceum named after Giorgi Kvinitadze accepted girls for the first time since its establishment in 2010.
The opening ceremony of the academic year 2016-2017 was greeted by President Giorgi Margvelashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first eight months of 2016 was 16 percent more than in the same period last year, new figures from Georgia’s National Statistics Office show.
The figures, presented in the latest preliminary monthly report by GeoStat,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The beating of four Muslims by Georgian police may be brought up before the European Court of Human Rights after a human rights group in Georgia on Thursday filed a lawsuit at the Strasbourg court.
The four were detained by police during a village