DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Margvelashvili on Thursday converted the sentence of a man so he will no longer need to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
The head of the president’s pardon commission Zviad Koridze said the most serious crime the prisoner
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is to allow teenagers between 14 and 18 years to test themselves for HIV without permission from their parents or guardian.
This is an initiative by the health committee in parliament, which will amend the law on patient rights.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian and Georgian diplomats meeting in Geneva for regular talks clashed over a new treaty Russia signed yesterday with the breakaway region South Ossetia.
At the latest round of talks, which ended on Wednesday, Georgia brought up the
TBILISI, DFWatch–The leader of South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia, was in Moscow on Wednesday and signed a new treaty on alliance and integration with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Georgia, EU, NATO and the United States protested against
TBILISI, DFWatch–The presidents of Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan have agreed to start construction of a natural gas pipeline which will bypass Russia and reduce Europe’s energy dependence on Russia.
The ceremony was held in Kars, a Turkish city near
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 40,000 candidates will try to pass the national exams this summer, in order to enter universities in Georgia.
According to the National Assessment and Examinations Center (NAEC), registration for exams in 2015 finished on Tuesday.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Food Agency warns against buying and eating many semi-processed food products after finding that they are contaminated by listeria and salmonella.
The agency warns against semi-processed food products from the following companies:
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian consul in Istanbul denies a report in a Turkish newspaper that he beat a woman working for him as a stylist.
The Turkish daily Hurriyet reported Monday that Consul Irakli Asashvili beat the Moldavian stylist Larisa Berezina at her house,
TBILISI, DFWatch–There will be this a by-election in one election district in Georgia to elect a replacement for a majoritarian member of parliament who passed away.
Nauli Janashia, 68, represented Martvili, a town in the western Samegrelo region,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A court in Georgia has acquitted a forensic expert who was on trial for negligence in connection with the death of a prime minister in 2005.
Levan Chachua sat almost nine months in detention, accused of not noticing marks of violence on the body