DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch – Heavy rain caused flooding in several parts of Georgia Tuesday.
In Kutaisi, the second largest city, first floors and basements are under water.
In Batumi, a defective drainage channel let to rivers of water in the roads.
Local media in the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Vice Speaker of Parliament was today elected as one of the vice presidents of OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly.
OSCE’s Parliamentary Assembly are gathered in Monaco to elect a president and vice presidents. Riccardo Migliori,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Two ministers who where switched around in a government reshuffle are taking their staff with them.
Former education minister Dimitry Shashkin is the new defense minister, and officials from the education ministry are now following after him.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has offered to send rescue teams to Russia to help the flood victims in the Krasnodar region.
Manana Manjgaladze, spokesperson for Georgian President said on Sunday that the president expresses his deep
TBILISI, DFWatch – Tbilisi City Court on Sunday fined seventeen opposition supporters USD 700 000 for illegal campaign donations.
In local currency, the exact size of the fines are 1 202 000 lari, collectively.
The State Audit Service, which is entitled to track
TBILISI, DFWatch – The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly July 9 is to adopt a resolution which for the first time calls the presence of Russian military in Georgia’s breakaway regions an occupation.
The resolution deals with the current situation in Georgia. The ten point
TBILISI, DFWatch – Two of the four who were imprisoned following a street fight at one of opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili’s campaign rallies have been released.
The scuffle took place on June 26 in Mereti, a village near a Russian-Ossetian check point.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Tbilisi City Court handed out fines totalling USD 6.7 mill Friday and Saturday. A company was found guilty of lending 45 cars to the opposition for free, and fined USD 5.2 mill, while that company and another was fined USD 1.4 mill for letting them
TBILISI, DFWatch – The State Audit Service, which used to be called the Chamber of Control, has seized property and bank accounts of a company which they say belongs to opposition billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili.
The audit service also determined seventeen people
TBILISI, DFWatch – A 22 year old woman has died at a maternity hospital in Telavi, a town in Eastern Georgia.
Khatira Ukanova delivered a baby by Caesarean section on July 2. Three days later she was let go home, but yesterday she was submitted to hospital because