DFWatch staff 
Tbilisi, DFWatch – An advocacy group in Georgia has asked the Prosecutor General’s
Office to launch an investigation into an explosion which destroyed an ancient gold mine on December 13.
Tbilisi, DFwatch – The Georgian government continues distancing itself from its predesessors’ military bravade as it announces, third year in a row, that Independence Day celebrations will go on without a military parade.
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Ethnic Armenians in Georgia on Friday gathered at the embassy of Turkey in Tbilisi demanding to recognize almost all-out extermination of the Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire in early 20th century as a Genocide.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has launched a project aimed at assisting people with hepatitis C after signing an agreement with the American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on April 21.
The government claims
TBILISI, DFWatch–Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko Thursday called on Georgia to live in a ‘common family’ with Belarus and Russia.
“Europe’s last dictator” said he has never been to Georgia before, except Abkhazia, one of two Georgian regions
TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Belarus, who is on a first visit to Georgia, arrived in Tbilisi the day before official meetings, which are planned for April 23-24.
Even though the flight between Minsk and Tbilisi is over four hours, he arrived a day before with his
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Football Federation (GFF) has banned one of the country’s top teams from taking party in national championships after it stayed away from a match due to financial problems.
GFF decided this after Zestaponi FC violated the rules
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several low cost airlines are looking to enter the Georgian market, according to the Ministry of Economy.
Prospective new carriers include Ryanair, EasyJet, Air Berlin, and the Greek company Ellinair.
According to the ministry, Ellinair applied to the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili scolded the media on Tuesday for their coverage of Pankisi youth who become radicalized and join Islamic State in Syria.
The media have shown an ‘unnatural hysteria’ about this problem, which
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first three months of 2015 was 10 percent less than in the same period last year.
The foreign trade turnover in January-March, 2015 was USD 2,279 million, according to the new report of Georgia’s National