DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch–EU and Georgia have finished talks on a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) and preparations are starting for a legal review of the text.
Minister of Economy Giorgi Kvirikashvili said on Monday that finishing the negotiation
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s U19 football team played 0-0 against France on Sunday, gaining its first points in the European championship in Lithuania.
“I’m really dissatisfied with the first half of the match. The other half was better,” Georgian U19 coach
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is preparing to re-count its internal refugees, in order to prevent election fraud in the presidential election in October.
Davit Darakhvelidze, the refugee minister, said re-registration is compulsory and will start from August 1, and that
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Saakashvili’s National Movement had a tough weekend with both party conferences interrupted by demonstrators.
After being greeted by an angry hoe-wielding crowd in Zugdidi Saturday, the UNM gathered in Batumi Sunday, only to see protesters
TBILISI, DFWatch–The National Movement’s fourth primary on Saturday took place against the backdrop of violent clashes with an angry hoe-wielding crowd who threw stones and bottles.
For the fourth time, the UNM’s primary was won by former Speaker of Parliament
TBILISI, DFWatch–Heavy rain caused flooding in several regions of Georgia Saturday.
In Zugdidi, a region bordering the breakaway region Abkhazia, more than 20 villages are flooded, according to local reporters. Didinedzi is hardest hit, and has a water cover of more
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Saakashvili’s National Movement party has lost its majority in Tbilisi City Council.
Members of Georgian Dream coalition, and former members of the National Movement who switched sides after the parliamentary election in 2012,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is strengthening its control of transit trucks.
Levan Izoria, Deputy Interior Minister, told DF Watch that the ministry made this decision after the number of car accidents increased and the number of casualties in accidents has also
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is considering using the former US embassy in Tbilisi as presidential residence after the election on October 27.
It’s unclear what would happen to the current presidential residence in Avlabari in the old part of Tbilisi.
TBILISI, DFWatch–South Ossetia has released Guram Gigineishvili, a Georgian who was detained five days ago in a village bordering on Russian-controlled territory.
Russian soldiers detained Guram Gigineishvili in the village Bershueti while he was working in