DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili Friday granted Georgian citizenship to almost 1000 Turkish citizens.
According to the president’s administration, the reason for the decision is that all the persons concerned know Georgia and for practical purposes they
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued an order to sign an agreement with the de facto government of South Ossetia about the ‘state border.’
The order instructs the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs to hold negotiations with the de facto
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili on Thursday appeared in City Court in Kutaisi in an extensive criminal trial.
Merabishvili is charged in several different cases, including the violent dispersal of protesters on May 26, 2011.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Thursday there were three more false bomb reports in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. Two TV buildings and Tbilisi international airport were evacuated, but no bombs were found.
A number of flights were postponed because of the evacuation of the airport.
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili asks President Mikheil Saakashvili to release secret documents. One of the documents concerns the TV station Imedi.
The PM says he is ‘shocked’ by all the material which is classified as top secret, as ‘crime
TBILISI, DFWatch–Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Thomas O. Melia says the United States is looking forward to cooperating with the new prime minister and president of Georgia.
Thomas O. Melia, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of Democracy, Human
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Public Broadcaster has turned down the National Movement party’s request to place free election commercial on its channels.
According to a statement by the UNM, the party provided six commercials, one of which was about the ‘unfulfilled
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Central Election Commission in Georgia Wednesday chose Tamar Zhvania as new chair.
Zhvania previously worked on election issues at UNDP. She received the votes of all six of the commission members.
President Mikheil Saakashvili on Monday
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia had 28.2 percent more visitors in August 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, according to the Interior Ministry.
The ministry every month publishes data about visitors. There are three categories of visitors: tourists, transit travel
TBILISI, DFWatch–Ruins of what may have been an ancient palace were discovered on Monday in the old part of Tbilisi.
Archeologists Merab Dzneladze and Levan Latsabidze said the ruins may date back to the fourth or third century AD, going by the architectural style,
