DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Three female prisoners who were in for life on Friday had their sentences converted to fixed term.
The decision was announced by Zviad Koridze, head of the president’s pardon commission; one of two such bodies in Georgia.
Instead of life,
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Margvelashvili is reconsidering the idea of having a special parliament session to discuss the crisis sparked by an over 30% drop in the value of the national currency, the lari.
At the height of panic a few weeks ago, the president
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia is massing military forces inside the breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and announcing that it is starting military exercises.
Official Tbilisi calls on the international community to react to this violation of Georgia’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia again failed to create a commission to study the destruction of an ancient gold mine in December.
Scientists have found more than 5,400 years old human artefacts in the Sakdrisi cave near Bolnisi, but the archaeologically
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia says it has not yet prepared an action plan for tackling the currency crisis after a drastic drop in the value of the national currency lari over the last few months.
An action plan was expected on March 5, after
TBILISI, DFWatch–Former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is wanted in Georgia in four criminal cases, on Wednesday spoke at a session of the foreign relations committee in the US Senate.
Saakashvili was recently appointed head of Ukrainian President Petro
TBILISI, DFWatch–A photo journalist was beaten at a political demonstration in Tbilisi on Wedneday.
Irakli Gedenidze, who works for new agency Interpressnews, came to Roses Square to cover a rally against the falling lari rate organized by the Reformers, Free Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–The oldest member of the Georgian parliament, 88 year old Giorgi (Gogi) Ochiauri, has asked to be relieved for health reasons.
Ochiauri is a professor at the Academy of Arts. He was elected from the National Movement party list in October, 2012.
