DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili visited Turkmenistan on Monday and signed four agreements dealing with as diverse issues as economy, culture, trade and tourism.
People travelling with him say the business leaders in Turkmenistan
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former head of shift of Zurab Zhvania’s security detail, who was detained in the new investigation into the prime minister’s death in 2005, was Sunday released from preliminary detention on a 2,000 lari bail (nearly USD 1,090).
Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania
TBILISI, DFWatch–One more former official from Mikheil Saakashvili’s government has been granted Ukrainian citizenship after being proposed for a high post in the new Ukrainian government.
Eka Zghuladze, a former deputy interior minister in Georgia, is now candidate
TBILISI, DFWatch–The influential Georgian patriarch on Sunday criticized a company which is excavating an ancient mine in the southern part of the country, and called on the government to intervene.
Mining company RMG Gold on Saturday resumed work at Sakdrisi,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Mining work resumed at Sakdrisi on Saturday, a site where scientists and environmentalist groups say is an ancient gold mine with invaluable artifacts from prehistoric man.
The controversy about the mine near Bolnisi in the southern part of Georgia has involved
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Finance Ministry’s investigative service detained one more Defense Ministry official on Saturday.
Bakhva Surmanidze was detained for accepting a 400 lari (USD 218) bribe.
He is head of the purchasing department at the Giorgi Abramashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former officer in Georgia’s domestic intelligence who was involved in the 2006 murder of Sandro Girgvliani has beenreleased from prison.
Oleg Melnikov, formerly an officer of the Constitutional Security Department or ‘Kudi’, was released
TBILISI, DFWatch–A film by a Georgian filmmaker has been nominated for a Golden Globe award.
Tangerines, or Mandariinid, is a Georgian-Estonian production written and directed by the Georgian Zaza Urushadze. Producer of the film is Ivo Felt and it starrs Georgian
TBILISI, DFWatch–South Ossetia may open its border with Russia and even seek some form of closer association, the breakaway region’s leader says.
de facto president Leonid Tibilov said Wednesday that a ‘treaty of collaboration’ with Russia is likely to be signed
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two demonstrations were held in Georgia Wednesday in support of the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who was recently detained.
Ismayilova was placed in preliminary detention in Baku on December 5, after being subject to a travel ban earlier