DFWatch staff TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s leader Mikheil Saakashvili Wednesday went on the offensive against newly elected Russian president Vladimir Putin’s brainchild; a Eurasian union, to encompass most of what was formerly part of the Soviet Union.
„Any attempt to resurrect the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Campaigners in the former Soviet republic of Georgia are asking the European Union and the OSCE for help to prevent Mikheil Saakasvhili from rigging the election this fall.
Pro-democracy groups have been campaigning since December last year to reverse
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili met his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev March 6 during a two-day visit to the country.
A press release from the Azerbaijani president’s administration says that the two expressed satisfaction with how
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry has fired a local police chief after a controversial death of a suspect under interrogation.
The ministry says in a statement dated March 6 that the head of Khashuri police station, where a detainee died under suspicious
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia increases its sentencing of hate crimes.
A new bill to amend the Criminal Code will make it mandatory for courts to use the maximum sentence if the crime was motivated by racial, linguistic, religious, national or ethnic prejudice.
For every
TBILISI, DFWatch – Where exactly does Europe end and Asia start? Some say it’s the Likhi mountain range, which separates Georgia’s western and eastern parts.
Regardless of how Europe’s geographical extent is measured, the cultural connection to Europe has long been a
TBILISI, DFWatch – Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterates that Georgia is eligible for membership in the alliance sometime in the future when all criteria are met.
Fogh Rasmussen said this at a regular briefing when asked by journalists how a potential
TBILISI, DFWatch – A new law in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has led to several international organizations reconsidering their democracy building activities.
The law was supposed to strengthen transparency in the election campaign this year and next, but a broad
TBILISI, DFWatch – School children in Georgia are given as home assignment to ‘like’ their leaders. Having a popular official Facebook page has become essential to public figures of Georgia.
Users of the social networking site in the former Soviet republic recently started
TBILISI, DFWatch – 92.77% of the voters in South Ossetia voted for Vladimir Putin as president of Russia. In the other breakaway republic Abkhazia, 90.94% of voters supported Putin in the presidential elections.
15,839 voters participated in the election in South Ossetia, Ria