DFWatch staff 
Tbilisi, DFWatch – The State Audit Office (SAO) auditors may set about scrutinizing finances of the recently established movement of Iveria, which consists of former prominent members of the past government, among them are former foreign affairs minister Grigol Vashadze, his former deputy Nika Vakashidze, ex-minister of culture Nika Rurua, and former ambassadors to France and China, Mamuka Kudava and Mamuka Gamkrelidze respectively.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Civil society activists who rallied in Riga during the EU summit caught the attention of Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko, who saw the rally from his car and walked over to them to express his support.
Members of the non-governmental organizations
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ten Georgian citizens were released by authorities in the breakaway region South Ossetia Tuesday evening. They had been detained for ‘violating the border’.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the released are: Nugzar Gelashvili, from the village
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four former members of the National Movement say they left the party to save the country from ‘pro-Russian forces’ which may come to power in the 2016 parliamentary election.
Zurab Japaridze, Goga Khachidze, Pavle Kublashvili and Giorgi Meladze
TBILISI, DFWatch–Doctors had to amputate one arm on a woman who was attacked by a tiger in Tbilisi Zoo. The victim, Guliko Chitadze, is a 25 year veteran of the zoo. The tiger attacked her on Tuesday at about 5pm. According to the zoo, she was in the caretaker area at the time of the … Read more
Georgia celebrated its Independence Day on May 26. U.S. soldiers participated in a oath taking ceremony for Georgian soldiers at Freedom Square in the center of Tbilisi. Rustaveli Avenue was closed off and a street fair offered entertainment for visitors. See our
TBILISI, DFWatch–Everyone who wishes so may today sign the declaration of protection of personal information and respect toward others.
This is an initiative by the Personal Data Protection Inspectorate, which was created nearly two years ago and are out on the street
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals in Uplistsikhe, in Georgia’s Kartli region, threaten that they will block the central highway near Gori because sheep that was returned from Jordan is dying from an unknown disease.
Teo Tlashadze, member of the local council in Gori,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two more people were detained on the disputed border with one of Georgia’s breakaway regions on Monday.
The incident took place the same day as the parties were gathered in a border village for EU- and OSCE-hosted negotiations.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch–Socially disadvantaged groups protested in Batumi on Monday, some demanding government help to handle their bank loans, others to get back land property taken from them.
Some of them demanded to get back land property that they were given