DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Central Election Commission (CEC) in Georgia has revoked the registration of a micro-party which used its right to free advertisement to call for Russian pensions and dual citizenship, accompanied by a portrait of Vladimir Putin and Russian tanks and flags.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Irakli Alasania’s Free Democrats promises a liberal drug policy and the decriminalization of all forms of drugs if they come to power.
But the punishment for drug dealing will be tougher, the party’s healthcare strategist Nikoloz Pruidze
TBILISI, DFWatch–The ruling Georgian Dream party on Monday nominated its majoritarian candidates in most of Tbilisi’s 21 electoral districts.
The exception was the downtown Mtatsminda district, where GD refrained from nominating a candidate to support
TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia was 11 percent less in 2015 than in 2014, according to precise data published Monday by Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
According to the report, the amount of investments
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two Georgians were detained by a Russian border patrol on Saturday while out fishing along a river close to the breakaway region Abkhazia.
Levan Morgoshia and Pridon Matkava were apprehended while standing on the left bank of the river Inguri.
TBILISI, DFWatch–16 people, among them several foreign tourists, have been rescued in Adjara after a strong storm hit the Black Sea coast of Georgia on Sunday, according to a statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The rain lasted several hours, flooding
TBILISI, DFWatch–A ten seconds long election video has caused a strong reaction from Georgia’s political establishment and calls for using legal means to stop the party behind it.
The provocative advertisement ran on the Public Broadcaster’s Channel 1
Saturday night
TBILISI, DFWatch–Witnesses in the village where a U.S. citizen was stabbed to death Thursday night reported seeing the tourist in an argument with the suspected murderer two hours before his body was found.
The motive for the murder is still unknown, but Imedi TV
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia has published results of a census showing that only 7 percent of the population there are ethnic Georgians.
The region from which tens of thousands fled in the 2008 war today has only 3,966 Georgian residents