DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian monk who mysteriously disappeared in Abkhazia is free after 25 days of captivity and has returned home.
The monk Iona, or Mamuka Maisuradze, was detained in Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia nearly three weeks ago.
Shota Utiashvili, head of
TBILISI, DFWatch – South Ossetian opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has regained consciousness in a hospital in Tskhinvali. Doctors want to transport her out of the breakaway republic and to Russia, but she refuses to be moved.
It was just one day before she was going to hold
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Coalition for Media Advocacy says it is unacceptable to prevent journalists from bringing cameras into the session hall of the the Georgian parliament.
It recently became known that there will be a photo ban in the new Georgian parliament building in
TBILISI, DFWatch – The wife of opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is suing Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, after he wrongfully revoked her citizenship.
Saakashvili revoked Ekaterine Khvedelidze’s Georgian citizenship last October, at a time when
TBILISI, DFWatch – The leader of the Georgian breakaway republic Abkhazia asks the EU not to teach Abkhazians how to live.
“You can get blind from brilliant ideas of the international diplomacy, but they are not for Abkhazia. Our request is don’t teach us how to live.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The popular opposition leader in South Ossetia, Alla Dzhioyeva, has been detained, reports Ekho Kavkaza.
The internet portal writes that unidentified officials entered the politician’s headquarters and detained Dzioyeva, who refused to go with
TBILISI, DFWatch – Abkhazia wants the EU to recognize the Georgian breakaway region’s own passports as valid travel documents, just as is the case with North Cyprus.
De facto foreign minister Viacheslav Chirikba said this February 8 after meeting Philip Dimitrov,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili calls for the government to investigate a police special operation in 2006 which took the lives of two young men.
It’s known as the Vazagashvili case and gathers a crowd every year at the spot near Paliashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia recorded a record number of visitors entering the country in January 2012.
According to data from the Border Guard Department and the National Administration of Tourism, 227 006 international travelers entered the country in January, which is 41%
TBILISI, DFWatch – Snowy weather is creating difficulties in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The whole country is currently covered with up to two meters of snow, but the transit of goods east-west is flowing normally.
The international airport in Tbilisi says their