DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s age-old method for making wine is now listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list.
On its eighth session, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Non-Material Cultural Heritage decided to list Georgia’s traditional
TBILISI, DFWatch–The local elections in Georgia will be held in June 2014, instead of May, the parliamentary majority says.
The last local elections were held on May 30, 2010. Davit Berdzenishvili from the Georgian Dream coalition said on Friday that the local
TBILISI, DFWatch–The local government in Telavi, a town in the Kakheti region, has announced a tender for the dismantling of a statue of Joseph Stalin.
According to Information Center of Kakheti, the local government allocated 1 121 lari (USD 660) for the dismantling
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian parliament has postponed the adoption of a landmark bill that will drastically change local government, after the draft Self-Governance Code was harshly criticized by the influential head of the Georgian Church.
The bill should have been
TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has fined two persons who tore down posters announcing Hanukkah.
Wednesday night, two people tore down the posters and damaged the tribune that had been prepared for the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. They were fined 100 lari (USD 60)
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government of Georgia will two months from now approve a strategy of protecting human rights.
The document will be complex aiming to establish a high standard of democracy.
This is one of the results of a human rights conference in Tbilisi
TBILISI, DFWatch–4 973 632 people visited Georgia in January-November, 2013 according to the Interior Ministry.
This is 22.6 percent more than the same period last year, and 12.3 period more than the total number of visitors in 2012.
The highest number of visitors
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen says it is possible for Georgia to have good relations with Russia and at the same time move towards NATO membership.
Rasmussen said there are examples of nations that are member of NATO and
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president Giorgi Margvelashvili says Russia has no means of influence that could divert Georgia from its course toward integration with Europe and interrupt the signing of the Association Agreement next year.
In a TV interview on Tuesday,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Appeals Court in Georgia has acquitted former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia, but sentenced the others who were charged in the same case to 3 years and nine months in jail.
Bacho Akhalaia, Giorgi Kalandadze, former head of Joint Staff and Zurab