DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry says one person has been arrested for smuggling explosive material to Zugdidi, after crossing the administrative border line with Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia.
“Explosive material was seized by the Sappers Division
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgiy Ramazashvili, a Moscow-based archival researcher, in July 2011 discovered that there was new construction work on a historic cemetery in Moscow where many Georgian royals, nobles and historic persons are buried. After Georgian and Russian media
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian billionaire’s opposition movement has launched its own TV channel.
Channel 9 started broadcasting April 30 and has been given a license by the National Communication Commission to broadcast via satellite. The broadcasting permit is for
TBILISI, DFWatch – A new poll shows that no matter who is nominated to suceed Mikheil Saakashvili, his party will win the next Georgian presidential election.
A poll by the International Republican Institute shows that Saakashvili’s National Movement party still has
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president says that after he has passed away, he wants his ashes to be spread over a holiday resort on the shores of the Black Sea.
President Mikheil Saakashvili said this during a visit to Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city, where he is to
TBILISI, DFWatch – The issue about returning management of Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem to Georgia has no connection with the government of Israel, says Yitzhak Gerber, Israel’s Ambassador to Georgia.
On May 1, before an event Sheraton Metekhi Palace Hotel in
TBILISI, DFWatch – The new parliament building in Georgia will be only partly completed by the time of the opening session on May 26.
In 2011, Mikheil Saakashvili announced that he would move parliament to Kutaisi, Georgia’s second biggest city. He also said that
TBILISI, DFWatch – The American investor Donald Trump praised Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili on the morning talk show Fox & Friends recently, calling him “one of the great leaders of the world”.
The billionaire and TV personality had just returned from a trip
TBILISI, DFWatch – In first four months of 2012, 61 per cent more people came to Georgia, compared to the same period the previous year.
978 521 person visited Georgia between January and April this year, according to the Interior Ministry.
Over three hundred thousand
TBILISI, DFWatch – For the first time in more than five years, spring in the Georgian capital will not be marked by crowds demanding the resignation of President Saakashvili.
At least the largest opposition party won’t be demanding that he steps down. Georgian Dream doesn’t