DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Businessman and former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said Monday that he would like to see Irakli Garibashvili as president.
Ivanishvili said this while meeting with local media in Rustavi, a town south of Tbilisi.
He said the former PM is ‘a good option for a spare’
TBILISI, DFWatch–The pedestrian zone of Aghmashenebeli Avenue in Tbilisi opened on Sunday after several months of renovation work.
The facelift of one of the oldest streets in the Georgian capital was financed by the local government and Tbilisi Development Foundation.
Tbilisi City Hall decided to refurbish
TBILISI, DFWatch–Student activists interrupted the traditional welcoming of new students at Tbilisi State University on Monday, in protest against the election of a former deputy education minister as new rector.
An activist group called Auditorium 115 prevented Giorgi Sharvashidze
TBILISI, DFWatch–The trustee of a village in eastern Georgia has resigned after admitting that he hit a journalist in the face.
The journalist, Gela Mtivlishvili, had showed up at a stretch of road where asphalt was being laid down in pouring rain in anticipation of a visit by
TBILISI, DFWatch–Students at Tbilisi State University threaten to resume their sit-ins and blockades after a former deputy education minister Friday became new rector in what they claim was rigged a election.
Gia Sharvashidze was backed by 21 members of TSU’s academic council.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Beijing-Urumqi-Tbilisi flights have been scheduled from Friday, according to Georgia’s National Tourism Administration.
China’s Southern Airlines, China’s largest flight companies, will carry out the flights two times in every week.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has found a former interior minister and two other ex-officials guilty of beating a parliamentarian in 2005.
The guilty verdict against Vano Merabishvili, Erekle Kodua and Gia Siradze
TBILISI, DFWatch–Financial crime investigators in Georgia have confiscated a hundred home-made slot machines that were placed in several cities around the country.
The grey and blue columns do not look like typical slot machines, but offer customers
TBILISI, DFWatch–In Batumi, the City Court on Monday ruled partly in favor of the Muslim community in a conflict about a planned religious boarding school called a madrasa.
The court case, which has lasted two years, deals with a conflict among locals in the town Kobuleti,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor General’s Office of Georgia (POG) has indicted a former Georgian official and Odessa governor confidant in Ukraine for directing a brutal dispersal of opposition rally back in 2011.
Gia Lortkipanidze, a deputy of then omnipotent