DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s parliament on Monday started discussing a draft law on amnesty which will release thousands of prisoners and reduce the sentence of others to half.
The ruling Georgian Dream coalition and the minority National Movement party hold
TBILISI, DFWatch — Twelve Georgian sailors have asked for help from Panama as they are five km away from the nearest port and running out of food and electricity.
The sailors are aboard the Maria Del Carmen sailing under Nigerian flag and have been out for
TBILISI, DFWatch — The minimum wage has increased by about one dollar in October compared to September, 2012, according to Georgia’s National Statistics Department.
According to GeoStat, the minimum wage for men of working age has increased from USD 89.7 to USD 90.7;
TBILISI, DFWatch — Germany wants to play a positive role in the process of restoring relations between Georgia and Russia, says Georgia’s Foreign Affairs Minister after meeting with her German colleague in Germany.
According to the foreign ministry, Foreign
TBILISI, DFWatch — Former Deputy Interior Minister Shota Khizanishvili was on Sunday given pre-trial detention until the start of the court case on December 28.
Khizanishvili, who is currently Deputy Mayor of Tbilisi, was detained November 15 for abuse of powers
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Prosecutor’s Office on Monday is expected to charge the former head of Georgia’s domestic intelligence service in absentia.
Data Akhalaia was head of the Constitutional Security Department (CSD), locally known as ‘Kudi’, and former
TBILISI, DFWatch — Ten of the intelligence officers who were detained Friday have been sentenced to preliminary detention by Tbilisi City Court and were denied bail.
November 15, eleven employees of the constitutional security department (CSD) of the interior ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s defense and foreign ministers on Saturday met the U.S. Philip Gordon, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State.
Gordon, whose full title is U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, visited Georgia for a second day
TBILISI, DFWatch — The U.S. diplomat Philip Gordon Friday met government and other officials in Georgia.
Gordon, whose full title is U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, met with Davit Usupashvili, Speaker of Parliament; Davit Bakradze
TBILISI, DFWatch — The long serving interior minister in Georgia has weighed in on the prosecution of his former deputy.
Vano Merabishvili, the powerful and feared former interior minister who last summer became prime minister, and after losing the parliamentary