Rusiko Machaidze 
TBILISI, DFWatch – Parties in Bidzina Ivanishvili’s opposition bloc may have their bank accounts seized.
Tina Khidasheli, one of the Georgian Dream coalition leaders, says if their bank accounts are seized, it will mean they will have to stop campaigning.
The Chamber of Control has
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has renewed his old election pledge about getting his country into NATO, as he is facing parliamentary and presidential elections.
The promise has been a mainstay of Saakashvili’s election campaigning since the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia has enforced new tough rules that make it prohibited to bring cell phones and other recording devices into court rooms.
Also prohibited are photo and video equipment.
The government does not comment on the issue.
TBILISI, DFWatch – A leading lawmaker in Georgia says he is positive to a new law proposal that would diversify access to the media.
Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze said Friday that he supports the introduction of the principles must-carry and must-offer.
TBILISI, DFWatch – What is the Georgian opposition? We give you the facts about what groups Bidzina Ivanishvili has recruited to his Georgian Dream coalition.
The Georgian Dream coalition currently consists of the Republicans, the Free Democrats, the National Forum,
TBILISI, DFWatch – It was just another day in court for the lawyers of Bidzina Ivanishvili, in a series of legal troubles that some people describe as kafkaesque.
After throwing himself into the political ring in October 2011, the billionaire is still without a
TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili says his first priority is the development of agriculture.
Manana Manjgaladze, the president’s spokesperson, said this at a briefing Tuesday.
Georgia is considered to be an agricultural country. But the government is
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry accuses an opposition advisor of having tried to bribe a policeman into recording what was being said at meetings in the police.
One person is arrested who is an associate of Irakli Sesiashvili, one of opposition
TBILISI, DFWatch – A democracy campaign in Georgia is gathering signatures in support of their law proposal about diversity in media, after the government said it is against it.
The campaign called This Affects You Too has developed a law proposal which would
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian law enforcement will have access to a new DNA database developed by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The so-called CODIS database will be run by Georgia’s national forensic service, and will mainly be used by law enforcement.