DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch – A court in Moscow has placed three persons into pre-trial detention until August 21, accused of killing a former Georgian general.
Roman Dumbadze sided with the rebels during a stand-off between the region Adjara and Tbilisi authorities, a
TBILISI, DFWatch – Two government-critical TV stations in Georgia are to start broadcasting from the same studios.
The two are Channel 9, run by associates of Bidzina Ivanishvili, front man of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition, and Maestro TV, a small,
TBILISI, DFWatch – The UN General Assembly July 3 passed a resolution calling for internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia and so called South Ossetia, Tskhinvali region, to be let to return home.
It was a humanitarian resolution, addressing demographic
TBILISI, DFWatch – A chlorine leak in Tbilisi yesterday evening poinsoned more than 80 people. One person is in a comatose condition.
The leak happened around nine in the evening at a private industrial area in the Lilo district on the southern edge of the capital.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The government’s action plan ‘More Benefits to People’ is entirely based on social issues. This is now sparking criticism from experts and government opponents.
The first promise new Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili made was to give each family
TBILISI, DFWatch – Another central figure in Georgia’s Interior Ministry resigns, after recent changes in the government.
Shota Utiashvili, former head of the Ministry’s Department for Analysis, today announced his decision to leave.
He did not say who will be his
TBILISI, DFWatch – Germany’s Christian Democrat party calls for democratic elections in Georgia in October.
In a press release entitled Ensure Fair Elections in Georgia, the CDU’s faction in the Bundestag calls for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to take
TBILISI, DFWatch – One of China’s largest companies, Hualing Group, has bought a 90 percent share in Georgia’s Basis Bank.
Xinjiang Hualing Industry & Trade (Group) Co. Ltd., Basis Bank and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development today held a joint press
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s former defense minister has been appointed new interior minister. The former education minister will take his place, and the former rector of Police Academy will be new education minister.
Bachana (“Bacho”) Akhalaia will take the position
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s new prime minister Vano Merabishvili has already started making promises, as only three months are left until the parliamentary elections.
In a speech Monday in the Gldani district of Tbilisi, near a construction site of a vocational