DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Checkpoint Lars, the only Russian border crossing with Georgia, will be open 24 hours from January 15.
Kavkaz Uzel writes that a person working at the checkpoint says the checkpoint on the Georgian side, which is called Kazbegi, will also be open 24
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia has presented new charges against former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia and Megis Kardava, a former chairman of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti police department in a case that deals with torture of prisoners.
This will be
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement is planning a series of anti-Putin demonstrations in several cities and towns, but first wants to meet with the people.
The party’s spokesperson Andro Barnovi said on Monday that the government is passive as the Winter Sochi
TBILISI, DFWatch–The website of Georgia’s parliament was down during the weekend and IT specialists are still trying to repair it after it was hacked twice in the last two weeks.
Merab Gotsiridze, head of the informational technology department of parliament, says
TBILISI, DFWatch–A group of Georgian parliamentarians will visit Estonia January 13-15.
The delegation will be headed by the speaker of parliament and hold meetings with the Estonian president, speaker of parliament, prime minister and foreign minister, according to
TBILISI, DFWatch–14 persons have been detained by South Ossetia from December 31 to January 10 for violating the de facto border.
Nine of the detainees were locals from South Ossetia, one was a Russian citizen and four were Georgian citizens. They were detained
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two people have died during the last two days in shelter tents which were put up in Tbilisi and Gori to help homeless people get through the winter.
A woman died January 11 in a tent in Tbilisi. The cause of death is still unknown.
The woman was brought
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili will visit Turkey on January 20.
According to the president’s administration, he has planned meetings with President Abdullah Gül in Ankara and also the prime minister and speaker of parliament.
TBILISI, DFWatch–People Friday demonstrated in front of Tbilisi City Hall against a private company’s plans to build a new hotel inside the publicly owned Vake Park in the capital.
Behind the project is Tiflis Development Company, and the hotel is planned at the location
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man presenting himself as a king has appealed to the Georgian government for better protection of his fellow countrymen after a Nigerian was brutally attacked in Tbilisi.
Richard Arize, presented by Rustavi 2 as a king of Igbo-Ukwu, a town in