DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – Another eight thousand satellite dishes belonging to Maestro TV has been seized by the police.
The seizure comes in addition to an action by the prosecutor’s office on July 11, when tens of thousands of satellite dishes were seized from Maestro.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Three Georgian Dream activists were arrested July 16 on suspicion of bribery.
According to the Justice Ministry, one of the suspects, Merab Kachakhidze, transferred 7 000 lari to the chair of the Conservative party’s branch in Mtatsminda
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Russian general says there won’t be another war with Georgia, thanks to military bases stationed in the two breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
“There will not take place a recurrence of conflict in the Caucasus,” said Vladimir
TBILISI, DFWatch – Batumi City Council has replaced the director of the local dolphinarium after security guards entered the facility Monday.
The dolphinarium in Batumi was reopened on the initiative of the local government after 20 years of non-functioning. This
TBILISI, DFWatch – Campaigners in Georgia welcome an initiative by the government to make political actors commit to not use or incite violence during the election campaign.
The campaign This Affects You Too thinks that such an agreement between political parties
TBILISI, DFWatch – Media workers in Georgia demonstrated Monday in support of a TV company.
They were protesting the seizure of thousands by the Ministry of Justice of satellite dishes belonging to TV company Maestro.
The background is a marketing push by
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia June 29 moved a police checkpoint a few hundred meters into Russian-controlled territory in the South Ossetian breakaway region. The EU has been mediating talks on the ensuing controversy.
The checkpoint was moved from the village Mereti
TBILISI, DFWatch – The main opposition bloc in Georgia mobilized 15 000 people Sunday in Gori, the town closest to the capital which was occupied by Russia in the 2008 war.
Georgian Dream front man Bidzina Ivanishvili promised to normalize relations with Russia
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian government is to start providing police security during opposition campaign events.
The opposition Georgian Dream was Thursday driven out of the village Karaleti by a stone-throwing crowd. 13 people were hospitalised,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Police in Georgia say they have arrested five suspects after violent clashes between government supporters and opposition activists Thursday led to thirteen people being hospitalized.
Among them is the bodyguard of former AC Milan