DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Technical preparations for Georgia and Moldova signing free trade treaties with the European Union ended Monday.
As ten days are left until the signing, there is little debate among ordinary Georgians about what the treaty will really mean to
TBILISI, DFWatch–Another body was found in Dariali Valley on Monday, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced.
This is the fourth victim of a massive landslide on May 17.
The ministry said the body has been sent to Tbilisi to carry out an
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover in the first five months of 2014 was USD 4,498 million.
This is 16 percent more than in the same period last year, according to preliminary figures published on Monday by the Georgian National Statistics Office, Geostat.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government coalition had a strong showing in the local election, though not as strong as in the previous two national elections.
In the capital Tbilisi, the coalition’s candidate for mayor, Davit Narmania, received 46.12 percent,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian politician who withdrew his candidacy one day before Sunday’s local election seems to have won by an absolute majority.
Merab Topchishvili and the Georgian Dream coalition each held press conferences last week to announce his
TBILISI, DFWatch–The new de facto rulers of Abkhazia are preparing to prevent Georgians with dual citizenship from voting in the election planned for August 24.
“25-26 thousand people are not eligible to vote in the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Both the ruling Georgian Dream coalition and the National Movement celebrated the results of exit polls from Sunday’s local election.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili congratulated candidate for Tbilisi mayor Davit Narmania on his victory,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Dream gets 55.45 percent of the votes in all of Georgia, UNM 20.19 percent while Burjanadze’s coalition received 9.8 percent of the votes counted in 468 out of 3,637 precincts in the country.
In Tbilisi, preliminary figures
TBILISI, DFWatch–A mother claims a priest forced her daughter to leave a church a few days ago because of her ethnicity. The priest denied this.
Inna Sukiasyan, who is of Armenian origins, last week wrote on her Facebook page and later told journalists that
TBILISI, DFWatch–Independent observers in Georgia’s local election say the extent of violations seen so far is not enough to influence the final results.
Two hours before voting ended in Georgia’s local election on Sunday, non-governmental organizations had filed 71