DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Organizers of KaZantip are determined to hold the electronic music festival in Georgia next year too, despite low visitor numbers last month.
But the condition is that the government allows the festival site in Anaklia to be used.
KaZantip was held
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili has canceled a planned trip to New York to attend the UN climate change summit, after weeks of squabbling with the government about who should represent the country.
The decision comes after the businessman
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili met Thursday with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev to discuss strategic cooperation and bilateral relations.
The meeting took place at the president’s palace, and Gharibashvili was accompanied by members
TBILISI, DFWatch–In a rare interview, former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has criticized President Giorgi Margvelashvili for harming the country’s image.
Ivanishvili left politics after the presidential election in October, 2013. He said in an interview
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Interior Ministry has launched an investigation into an incident in a small town about a pig head being placed on the door of a Muslim religious school called a madrasa.
The incident happened in Kobuleti as locals were protesting against
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals in the small Georgian town Kobuleti on the Black Sea coast are protesting against the construction of a madrasa, a religious educational facility for Muslims.
As a sign of protest people killed a pig and placed its head at the entrance
TBILISI, DFWatch–The amount of direct foreign investments in Georgia in the second quarter of 2014 was USD 151 million; significantly lower than in the same period last year.
This is down 27% compared to in the second quarter of 2013, when there was USD 208 million
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 50 Yazidis have fled from Iraq to Georgia and applied for political asylum here.
DF Watch September 3 organized a discussion about the situation.
Dimitry Pirbar, head of the Religious Council of Yazidis in Georgia, said he had been to Iraq
TBILISI, DFWatch–The building of a controversial hydropower dam in a mountainous region of Georgia may be further postponed, if the company behind it fails to submit the required documents in time.
The planned Khudoni hydropower project is located
TBILISI, DFWatch–Over a year after a wave of complaints about frequent police searches in the streets, new reports are coming in of the same problem.
People are being stopped and searched by the police in the streets. During one such raid, a reporter for media.ge