DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first half of 2014 was 16 percent more than last year, according to preliminary data from the National Statistics Department, GeoStat.
According to the new report published on Wednesday, the amount of foreign
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Saturday added further pretrial detention for former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia for the murder of Sergo Tetradze.
Akhalaia’s defense lawyers wanted the court to set a 30,000 lari bail, but the court decided on two months
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government plans to reopen the Ergneti market on the border with South Ossetia. In recent days, it has said reopening the market would not contradict a free trade agreement Georgia recently signed with the EU.
Ergneti market was
TBILISI, DFWatch–A minibus crushed into a truck on Tuesday, resulting in the death of a 14-year-old girl and ten others being injured.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the accident happened at Rikoti Pass, which connects western and eastern Georgia.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian politician and media investor Erosi Kitsmarishvili was found dead in Tbilisi Tuesday afternoon.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs immediately launched an investigation into what appears to have been a suicide, and later the Prosecutor’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Chechen refugee continues to claim that he is being harassed by government bodies and that he is not allowed to cross the Georgian border.
Non-governmental organizations and the Ombudsman appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to stop violating his
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has questioned three of former President Mikheil Saakashvili’s security personnel as well as a former maid about a ‘top secret’ matter, refusing to give any details.
Former protection service employees
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court on Monday rejected a motion by the Prosecutor’s Office to change the USD 30,000 bail set for former Tbilisi Mayor Gigi Ugulava into pre-trial detention.
The judge said that the arguments in the motion were not strong enough
TBILISI, DFWatch–The new Tbilisi City Council on Monday held its first session after the local election to elect a new council head.
Only nine members are being carried over from the previous assembly; four from the Georgian Dream coalition and five from
TBILISI, DFWatch–There will be regular flights between Mestia, in the northwest of Georgia, with Mtskheta, just north of Tbilisi.
The route, which opens on July 18, will cut travel time to the tourist resort from seven hours by land to 45 minutes.
Flights will depart from the airport