DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – As one month is left until the de facto republic South Ossetia is to hold another presidential election, 21 candidates have registered their initiative group with the Central Election Commission.
But the most popular candidate in a cancelled election
TBILISI, DFWatch – An online campaign against Russian president Dimitry Medvedev’s Facebook page led to comments in Georgian language being blocked by the administrator.
The campaigners wanted to express their protest against Russian policy regarding
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia hopes to restore friendly relations with the Georgian people, Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says.
“We have never equaled the Georgian government to the Georgian people. And I hope very much that this really brotherly people to us
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian security analyst says today’s attack on Abkhazia’s leader could have been carried out by Moscow-loyal forces who are angered by Alexander Ankvab’s efforts to disrupt them.
Mamuka Areshidze, chair of Caucasus Center for Strategic Research
TBILISI, DFWatch – A lawmaker from Georgia’s ruling party says he doesn’t exclude that Russia was behind today’s ambush of Abkhazian leader Alexander Anhvab’s convoy.
“The fact itself that there were several attacks on this person, while he was the so-called Prime
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russian security police FSB forced a civilian airliner to return to Moscow and confiscated the passport of a South Ossetian ex-politician.
Dzambolat Tedeev, who pondered running for president in South Ossetia last fall, was sitting on an airplane
TBILISI, DFWatch – This morning’s roadside ambush has left one of de facto Abkhazian president Alexander Ankvab’s bodyguards dead, and authorities are now using helicopters to hunt down the attackers.
The attack happened at 08:25 in the morning Moscow time. News
TBILISI, DFWatch – Three Georgian soldiers have died in Afghanistan, according to Georgia’s Defense Minister. The country has now lost a total of fifteen soldiers in the ISAF (International Security Assistance Force) mission.
“The military servicemen died while they were
TBILISI, DFWatch – Wednesday morning the de facto president of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia was attacked while in his car on his way to work in Sukhumi.
Alexander Ankvab himself was not hurt, Abkhazian and Russian media report, but one of his bodyguards
TBILISI, DFWatch – The former member of parliament accused of planning a coup d’état in 2007 was released on bail.
Georgian authorities accuse Valeri Gelbakhiani of having hatched the plot together with Badri Patarkatsishvili, a now deceased billionaire who owned