DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Vladimer Khinchegashvili won gold in men’s freestyle 57 kg wrestling at the Rio Olympics on Friday. Georgia now has two gold medals in the games.
In the final, Khinchegashvili faced Japan’s Rei Higuchi, who got silver.
The first round
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former first lady Sandra Roelofs is a candidate for parliament for her husband’s National Movement party for Zugdidi election district in the west of Georgia.
Unlike her husband, Roelofs is not wanted by Georgian law enforcement,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Opera star Paata Burchuladze expanded his followership on Thursday as more politicians joined his party, State for People.
The merger with the New Rightists brings in politicians from a party that has a long presence in Georgian politics, but
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian drivers can now get their car examined for radioactivity. But why would they want to do that?
The new radiation control service became available on Wednesday and will be handled by the agency for nuclear and radiation security
TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in Georgia on Wednesday sentenced four men to up to 8 years in jail on Wednesday for bridenapping.
The bride kidnapping took place in Kobuleti, a town on the Black Sea coast, in November last year.
In her court testimony,
TBILISI, DFWatch–On November 23 last year, shots were fired at a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in Vazisubani, a district in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
When bullets slammed into the building again one week later, a lawyer representing the religious community wondered
TBILISI, DFWatch–Every day, about 200 tons of agricultural products is brought from Georgia into the Akhalgori district of South Ossetia, Sputnik Ossetia reports.
Akhalgori is a part of the breakaway region which was under Georgian control until the war in 2008. Many people cross
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi Zoo has a new baby lynx, which was recently discovered in Lagodekhi in eastern Georgia.
The animal was discovered by ranger Gogita Khunashvili in Lagodekhi nature preserve in July, after the river Shroma was flooded, carrying
TBILISI, DFWatch–The construction of the second terminal building at Tbilisi International Airport is proceeding as planned.
Currently, the foundation is being laid, a spokesperson for the airport told DFWatch.
The need for a second terminal is evident in the steady
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Defense Ministry claims safety regulations were not violated when two Georgian soldiers went missing Tuesday during a military exercise at sea, off the Black Sea coast.
Two soldiers never made it up to the surface during a course in combat diving.