DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two of the parties in the governing Georgian Dream coalition have decided to run as independent parties in the upcoming parliamentary election.
The Republican Party declared Thursday that they plan to participate in the election independently,
TBILISI, DFWatch–One more sex tape was uploaded to Youtube on Thursday, targeting a Georgian politician.
The video was posted on the personal Facebook pages of a journalist and an actor and later removed.
The police questioned actor Beso Zanguri. Journalist
TBILISI, DFWatch–Vladimer Papava, the rector of Tbilisi State University (TSU), resigned Wednesday, but denied that he had done so because of pressure.
“A lot of things influenced this decision. Their hunger strike and your demands, but many other things,” Vladimer Papava said.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A deputy head of the Georgian counterintelligence on Monday hinted that Russia could be behind leaked surveillance videos recently used to threaten government members, although he did not rule out any theory. The videos were uploaded
TBILISI, DFWatch–The conflict at Tbilisi State University (TSU) seemed to be over a few weeks ago, but now Georgian intelligence has jumped into the fray, announcing that it hasn’t had agents at TSU since the beginning of this year.
The presence
TBILISI, DFWatch–Davit Sakvarelidze, a former Georgian official, has been fired as deputy chief prosecutor of Ukraine.
He was fired for violating the ethics of a prosecutor, and for interfering in the business of another prosecutor, according to the the website
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Georgia scores high in international rankings of women’s participation in business management, although few Georgian women hold political office.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Central Election Commission (CEC) has approved a proposal to hold a referendum about whether to allow same sex marriage in Georgia.
The proposal, which was submitted by a group of seven people, will not automatically
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian media reported that Elton John, Sting, Jeniffer Lopez, Enrique Iglesias, Beyonce and others performed at the wedding of the son of Russian oligarch Mikhail Gutseriev March 26 in Moscow.
It caught some attention in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 1,440 minors became parents in 2015 and there were registered 611 marriages of people from 16 to 18 years, according to a report published Monday by Georgia’s ombudsman.
In 2014, there were registered 665 marriages involving minors.