TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili will veto a planned mass amnesty passed by parliament, arguing that the new government is about to release dangerous people into society.
The amnesty was passed by parliament December 22 after much
DFWatch staff
Fraud allegations against Saakashvili campaign rally
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia says public money was spent on campaign rallies for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement party last September, which is illegal, and that documents were falsified to cover it up.
The party
Kars-Akhalkalaki will not be halted
TBILISI, DFWatch — Construction of the Kars-Akhalkalaki railway will continue as before.
Irakli Kovzanadze, Chair of Georgia’s Partnership Foundation, said this in Azerbaijan on Wednesday, during a visit there by Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and
Ivanishvili and Aliyev discussed energy export
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili Tuesday met the President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during an official visit to Baku.
The two held a closed meeting which took place at Aliyev’s Zagulba palace.
Also present were Georgia’s Foreign
Earthquake hits Georgia again
TBILISI, DFWatch — An earthquake hit Georgia Wednesday morning; the second one in three days.
Two strong quakes were felt early morning December 26, at 02:44 and 03:00 am.
According to the seismic monitoring center, the strength of the earthquakes were 5.5 and
Top-level corruption was rife in Georgia: NGO
TBILISI, DFWatch — Just as the Inter RAO corruption scandal is jolting the political scene in Georgia, a Georgian think tank claims to have revealed three further cases of what is called high level corruption.
The Saakashvili government has been credited with having effectively
Georgia prison rape video was real
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has concluded an investigation of a handful of videos showing torture of prisoners which sparked protests two weeks before the election in October, 2012.
The videos were published September 19, and showed
Security Council spent money on lobbyists, Ivanishvili claims
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Secretary of the Security Council and the Prime Minister disagree about the expenses and financing for the National Security Council of Georgia.
The issue surfaced when the 2013 budget was presented to parliament, showing that the
Georgian sailors returning home
TBILISI, DFWatch — The twelve Georgian sailors who have been adrift on a ship abandoned by its owner off the coast of Panama are returning home.
The sailors aboard the Maria del Carmen 2, sailing under a Nigerian flag, were rescued by staff at the Georgian embassy
Georgia sends rescue team to Afghanistan
TBILISI, DFWatch — A military search team left for Afghanistan on Monday in order to search for a Georgian soldier who has been missing for almost a week.
The team is headed by the deputy chief of the Joint Staff.
ISAF isalready conducting a search and rescue