DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian conservatives continue trying to stop the music festival KaZantip from going ahead in Georgia and Thursday organized another rally, this time attempting to enter the festival compound.
Orthodox clerics and followers a few days ago
TBILISI, DFWatch–There were 1,703 fires in Georgia in the first half of 2014. 38 people died and 61 were injured, according to the Interior Ministry.
In 1,005 of the cases, the reason for the fire could not be determined. In 333 cases, the cause was negligence,
TBILISI, DFWatch–In an extremely controversial move, Georgia’s Ministry of Health is tightening the regulation of prescription drugs.
Seen as a step away of the former government’s deregulation stance, the initiative by the Ministry of Labor, Health
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili denies new charges that he spent money meant for the special protection service on his own lavish life style.
Prosecutors in Georgia charged him Wednesday with having spent 8.8 million lari (USD
TBILISI, DFWatch–‘Stop ISIS’ was the slogan of a rally organized by the Yazidi community in Tbilisi as a show of solidarity with their besieged countrymen in Iraq, who suffer from ruthless savagery by the terrorists from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prosecutors in Georgia have brought further charges against former President Mikheil Saakashvili about embezzlement of public money.
The case describes embezzlement of about 8.8 million lari (USD 5.2 million) meant to be used for the protection
TBILISI, DFWatch–180 people died in traffic accidents in Georgia in the first half of 2014, according to new figures from the Interior Ministry.
The figures published Tuesday show that an upward turn in road accidents has stopped, but numbers remain high compared
TBILISI, DFWatch–A hundred houses were flooded in a small Georgian village Tuesday night.
Due to heavy and long rain, villages were flooded in an area near Khashuri in the central parts of Georgia.
The flood hit hardest in Kvishkheti, which
TBILISI, DFWatch–A bust of Stalin was Tuesday dismantled in a small village in Georgia, less than a day after it was put up.
It is still unknown who placed the monument in Akura, in the eastern part of the country, but the same bust has been erected several times in two
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is to join an international humanitarian effort in Luhansk, Ukraine.
This became known on Tuesday.
Last week, Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said Georgia is not planning to join the international sanctions EU and the United