Rusiko Machaidze 
TBILISI, DFWatch – Four years after the war between Russia and Georgia, which led to hundreds of deaths, occupation of Georgian lands and Russia’s recognition of two separatist regions, flags are lowered on all government buildings.
Davit Bakradze, Speaker of
TBILISI, DFWatch – Now that the date of Georgia’s parliamentary elections has been set to October 1, political parties are under certain restrictions set by law, that last until Election Day.
One restriction is that it is prohibited to use administrative resources for campaigning.
TBILISI, DFWatch – An auction is in progress to sell property seized from 17 people who donated money to political parties.
A land plot with a dwelling belonging to Giga Bukia, a member of the Georgian Dream coalition, has already been sold.
The State Audit Service
TBILISI, DFWatch – A police employee threatened his cousin with a gun because he was a member of the opposition Georgian Dream coalition.
Georgian Dream representatives told DF Watch that the incident took place in the village Orulu near the town Zugdidi in the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Activists for the governing party Saturday prevented President Saakashvili’s main opponent, Bidzina Ivanishvili, from meeting with the population in a small mountain village in the Adjara region, in the southwest of Georgia.
Journalists are reporting
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia will hold parliamentary elections on October 1. The announcement marks the beginning of the election campaign and political parties are now subject to a special set of rules.
Whereas, the Georgian constitution says that parliamentary
TBILISI, DFWatch – 291 471 voters registered in Georgia are currently living abroad, while 26 000 are dead.
These are the main corrections which the state commission working with the voter’s lists have found by going door-to-door and checking 3 483 142 voters.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian state takes over ownership of information about fossil and mineral resources in the country. Before, this information was the private property of the company that did the geological survey.
The government explains this with a need
TBILISI, DFWatch – Human rights campaigners in Georgia are organizing a hungerstrike among prisoners in connection with the election for parliament.
Organizers are the groups ‘Political Prisoners against the Dictate of Five’, ‘For Protection of Human Rights’
TBILISI, DFWatch – A supporter of a former government top who is now in the opposition was arrested Friday morning.
For unknown reasons, Interior Ministry gave explanations for the arrest instead of Prosecutor’s office. Those two are different bodies,