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TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia’s chief sanitary inspector is concerned about the deployment of U.S. military laboratories at former Soviet medical institutions in Ukraine and Georgia.
According to NEWSru, a Russian news website owned by Gazprom, Gennady Onishchenko
TBILISI, DFWatch – The museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in his hometown of Gori in Georgia will change name to the Museum of Stalinism.
The Ministry of Culture is behind the idea that the museum will offer visitors a historical account of stalinism,
TBILISI, DFWatch – In South Ossetia, the opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has decided to set up a new political party.
April 7, an organizing committee for the new party called ‘Iriston – Freedom Square’ met at Dzhioyeva’s headquarters, Ekho Kavkaza reports.
“We
TBILISI, DFWatch – A former local head of the KGB in South Ossetia has won the presidential elections in the breakaway region. Leonid Tibilov received about 55 percent of the votes beating competitor David Sanakoyev, presidential human rights commissioner.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch – More than 13 percent of voters in Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia had cast their vote in the presidential election by 10:00 in the morning.
The Central Election Commission of the region says this is a higher turnout than in the first
TBILISI, DFWatch – The de facto republic South Ossetia tomorrow holds the second round of its second presidential elections.
The first election was held in November 2011. The Kremlin favorite and an opposition leader got through to the second round, in which the
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Public Defender in Georgia believes the time has come to reduce the number of prisoners in the country.
The ombudsperson said this at a joint session of parliamentary committees to discuss his report about the human rights situation last year.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian non-governmental organizations call on Georgian politicians to stop making xenophobic statements and ask the media not to spread such comments.
“The authors of such statements probably try to play on ethnic and religious feelings
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Foreign Ministry today invited international organizations to send a long-term observation mission ‘immediately’ ahead of the parliamentary elections in October.
Normally, long-term observers would arrive about six weeks before the election,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia makes Russian its second state language.
The region’s elected assembly adopted a constitutional law called “On State Language of the Republic of South Ossetia”, which obliges the de facto state’s bodies