DFWatch staff 
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili on Thursday met President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė at the president’s palace.
Grybauskaitė and Ivanishvili discussed bilateral relations and views on how to strengthen them.
The Georgian
TBILISI, DFWatch–For more than three weeks, activists and supporters of the Georgian Dream coalition have been protesting in front of town hall in Ozurgeti in the western Guria region of Georgia, against the acting head of the municipality.
The activists have set up
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Patriarch will visit Russia for the 1025th epiphany anniversary.
Events for the anniversary will be held in Moscow, Kyiv and Minsk.
Patriarch Ilia II will visit all three cities accompanied by a Georgian delegation July 23-30.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A new amendment to the election code will require top officials to resign two days after they are registered as candidates in the presidential election.
The new regulations will apply to the prime minister, ministers of autonomous republics
TBILISI, DFWatch–EU’s enlargement commissioner Štefan Füle has spoken by phone to the UNM Secretary General and former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, who is in detention waiting to face trial.
According to Merabishvili’s Facebook page, the European