DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Saturday modified the charges against five former high officials, including ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili.
In Saakashvili’s and former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili’s cases, the charges
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Public Defender in Georgia has asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to investigate an instance of alleged mistreatment by police.
A prisoner at Kutaisi (“No 2”) prison told Public Defender’s staff about the incident, which took place
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ian C. Kelly has been nominated as new U.S. Ambassador to Georgia.
Kelly is the U.S. State Department’s diplomat in residence at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
If confirmed, he will replace Richard Norland, the current ambassador.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first two months of 2015 fell by 9 percent compared to the same period last year.
This is indicated by new preliminary data published by the National Statistics Department (Geostat).
The total foreign trade
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament again failed to hold an extraordinary session about how to tackle a drastic drop in the value of the national currency, the lari.
Again, the reason for cancelling the plenary session was that parliament members from the governing
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new ski resort is to open in the Svaneti region in the northwest of Georgia.
The facility in Tetnuldi will open for tourists from December, 2015, according to the government’s press office.
It will have the longest ski slope in South Caucasus
TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of a small Georgian opposition party was detained by police for hooliganism on Thursday.
The incident took place at an Interior Ministry building in the capital Tbilisi.
Kakha Kukava, leader of Free Georgia, was there for some business, when
TBILISI, DFWatch–Six people were detained during clashes at a rally against the government’s economic policy outside the old parliament building in Tbilisi on Thursday.
Free Zone, an activists group which supports the National Movement, demonstrated
TBILISI, DFWatch–Abkhaz and Georgian representatives met Thursday to discuss the closing of Europe’s largest hydroelectric dam, Inguri, for several months to carry out maintenance work.
The power station is located partly on Georgia-controlled territory
TBILISI, DFWatch–Direct foreign investments in Georgia in 2014 was 39 percent more in 2014 than it was in 2013, according to a new preliminary report of the National Statistics Department (Geostat).
The amount of the investments in 2014 was USD