DFWatch staff 
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–The body of a Georgian who died a few days ago in a bomb explosion in Ukraine’s Donetsk region arrived in Georgia on Monday.
Arsen Beridze, 23, from Adjara region, had been living in Ukraine with his family for the past 12 years. He was killed when
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili will attend the UN Climate Summit 2014 despite the express wishes of Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili.
The president has said many times that he will go to the US and his plan about the visit hasn’t changed.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government wants to strip the president of the power to set terms for student scholarships and studies abroad.
A new draft law about higher education will if passed let the it be up to the government to confirm the use of student advantages,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Students demonstrated Friday outside the Culture Ministry against a decision to only allow professors at accredited universities to become rector of the Academy of Art.
The decree was signed by Culture Minister Mikheil Giorgadze on September 1.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A 113 point declaration passed by leaders of NATO countries at the summit in Wales has two points about Georgia.
Apart from support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and a commitment that it will become a member of NATO someday