DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch — An extraordinary meeting took place in Tbilisi today, as President Mikheil Saakashvili received billionaire and election winner Bidzina Ivanishvili and his political partners at the presidential palace.
After Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition won the
TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Dream coalition leader and likely prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili today named his candidates for government ministers and other top positions.
Head of Georgia’s National Bank will be Nodar Javakhishvili, chair of Cartu Bank, a bank affiliated
TBILISI, DFWatch — Negotiators for the government and Georgian Dream Monday held another round of consultations regarding the ongoing process to transfer power.
Participants said afterwards that Monday evening consultations will start between current ministers and Georgian
A new coalition called Georgian Dream won a clear victory in the parliamentary election last week. Georgia-expert Lincoln Mitchell interprets the result.
Did you expect these results?I believe last time we spoke, and certainly last time I was here, I mentioned that the NDI
TBILISI, DFWatch — Protests continue after a Georgian newspaper published the names of employees at a prison scandalized by revelations of torture.
On Saturday evening, a well-known writer who has been engaging in the protests was attacked and beaten.
Asaval-Dasavali,
TBILISI, DFWatch — There is a crisis in pro-government TV in Georgia, after an opposition coalition won the parliamentary election.
October 5, several well-known anchors and journalists at Imedi TV, which is controlled by Saakashvili’s government, each wrote on their
TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili Friday told his acting interior minister and chief prosecutor to do everything to prevent the mafia from crossing the border into Georgia.
After it became clear that Bidzina Ivanishvili’s coalition was going to win the election,
The founders of Rustavi 2, a TV company are fighting to get back control which they claimed was forcefully deprived from them.
Rustavi 2 played an important role in the rose revolution in 2003, which brought President Mikheil Saakashvili to power, but later became completely
TBILISI, DFWatch — Friday, authorities in Georgia lifted the seizure of thousands of satellite dishes belonging to Maestro TV and Georgian Dream affiliated Global TV, a cable network operator.
Both companies on Friday received a letter about the lifting of the seizure.
TBILISI, DFWatch — About 200 local and foreign businesspeople Friday gathered to meet with the winner of the parliamentary election in Georgia.
Bidzina Ivanishvili met them in order to talk about important issues and problems in their field, including the necessity of