DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–The exchange rate of Georgian lari against the US dollar and the euro has fallen.
November 8, the exchange rate of lari against USD was 1.6793. November 7 it was 1.6737. The rate has been falling for one week. October 29 it was 1.6675.
The Georgian lari
TBILISI, DFWatch–The deputy foreign minister of Israel says relations with Georgia have warmed during the last year.
Zeev Elkin, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel, also says that the agreement about visa free travel between the two states will soon
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili resigned on Thursday. His replacement, Otar Partskhaladze, was presented Friday.
It has not been officially confirmed, but unofficially known that Partskhaladze will leave his job as chairman
TBILISI, DFWatch–Austria has extradited a Georgian citizen who is charged with torture and was being searched for by Interpol.
According to the Interior Ministry, Davit Chaginava, who was detained in Austria September 30, has been extradited to Georgia. Interpol has
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police are investigating an attack on the head of the campaign office for Georgian Dream candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili in Sagarejo, in eastern Georgia, in the evening of Election Day.
Ivane Kvrivishvili was attacked by members of the Georgian Dream
TBILISI, DFWatch–The trial against former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili for the violent dispersal of an anti-government protest in 2011 will begin November 19.
It was on May 26, 2011, that an anti-government protest in front of parliament was brutally dispersed
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili assures foreign diplomats that he is hoping the new government and president will succeed and make the economy boom.
Meeting with foreign diplomats at the president’s palace in Tbilisi on Wednesday to sum up the
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has ruled out that there will be signed a non-use of force treaty with Abkhazia, because the country does not sign treaties with the breakaway regions.
Vyacheslav Chirikba, de facto Foreign Minister of the breakaway region Abkhazia, said after
TBILISI, DFWatch–The president’s reserve fund will be cut from USD 30 million to 15 million for next year.
Finance Minister Nodar Khaduri said Wednesday that two months before the end of the year, the president’s reserve fund is empty.
He said the president spent
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili has pardoned one more person convicted in the so-called prison riot case and awarded him with Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali of the first class.
Revaz Charbadze, a former chairman of the purchasing department of the Defense