DFWatch staff 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
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian Interior Minister says his ministry’s preliminary findings show that the death of a prisoner at a regional police station was an accident, but that it is outrageous that something like this could happen.
Following the death of Solomon
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Saturday unveiled another home produced weapon system; a Georgian version of the Grad multiple rocket launcher.
According to the EU’s investigation into the August 2008 war, he ordered his army to use Grads, also
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian beach resort came under machine gun and rocket propelled grenade fire last night.
According to a statement on the Georgian Interior Ministry’s website, the attack started at 03:20 at night and lasted for ten minutes. No-one was injured.
The
TBILISI, DFWatch – Confusion continues over a detainee’s suspicious death at a police station, after a Georgian website released photos of the victim, Solomon Kimeridze, showing bodily injuries which could be the result of torture.
Yesterday evening, all three national