DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers last week detained three Georgian citizens at a village bordering with the breakaway region South Ossetia.
According to Channel 1, Russians detained a father and son, Avtandil and Shota Atskarunashvili, and later also Ilia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s national basketball team won 79-59 against Hungary on Sunday, in a qualification match for the 2015 FIBA EuroBasket.
The Georgian team was only losing for one quarter of Sunday’s match. Tornike Shengelia played best among the teammates
DFWatch: What’s your prediction, how will the situation around Ukraine evolve?
Kenneth Yalowitz: What worries me is that you have a situation where the Ukrainian side is doing better militarily in Eastern Ukraine and we don’t know how the Russians are going
TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 26,000 candidates have been accepted as students this year, according to the head of Georgia’s National Exam Center.
Maia Miminoshvili told journalists that about 35,500 entrants took their test exams this year, but 9,000 failed to pass.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement demonstrated outside the Ukrainian embassy in Tbilisi on Saturday, to mark the 25 year anniversary of Freedom Chain, an anti-Soviet protest, and to express solidarity with Ukraine.
Demonstrators called on the government
TBILISI, DFWatch–Gas began flowing again Saturday in a pipeline that runs through a Georgian mountain valley which was hit by a landslide on August 21.
The pipeline through Dariali Valley brings Russian natural gas to Armenia.
According to Georgia’s Gas Transport
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals demonstrated Friday in a Georgian village because of strict rules about the cutting of trees for fire wood.
People in Khaishi, in the northern part of Georgia, blocked the Zugdidi-Mestia highway because of sanctions introduced
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian celebrities, including politicians and journalists, are joining the international charity movement Ice Bucket Challenge, which aims gathering donations to support treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.
ALS is a disease
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two prisoners clashed at Prison No 6 in Gardabani on Friday.
The fight took place at 01:00 at night. Relatives and family were gathered at the prison, and some of them told journalists that law enforcement entered the prison, but the Prison Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch–There is a danger that more snow may come loose from Devdorak glacier and trigger another landslide in Dariali Valley, Georgia’s Environment Ministry warns.
Experts working for the National Agency of Environment have visually surveyed