TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers on Sunday detained Otar Kokoshvili, 54, from the village Tamarasheni, near Kareli. He was taken to a detention facility in Tskhinvali, a central town in the breakaway region South Ossetia.
According to his relatives, Kokoshvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards Monday detained seven more Georgians in villages bordering South Ossetia.
The same day, four Georgians were released. This leaves nearly 20 Georgians who still remain in detention in Tskhinvali.
The seven Georgians were detained
TBILISI, DFWatch–French President François Hollande arrives in Georgia on Tuesday as part of his tour of the South Caucasus.
Hollande’s trip takes place amid a crisis in Ukraine and is aimed at boosting the EU’s ties with the region, the French news agency AFP
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president has signed a new anti-discrimination law, and it has therefore come into force.
The Georgian Orthodox Church was against the law because it in their opinion ‘legalizes homosexuality’, and wanted to remove ‘sexual
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man suspected of beating the brother of a former government official was Monday placed in pre-trial detention by Tbilisi City Court.
Businessman Davit Kodia, brother of former police official Erekle Todua, was beaten a few days ago in Tbilisi while
TBILISI, DFWatch–The presidents of Turkey and two South Caucasus countries will meet at the National Library in Tbilisi on Tuesday, to attend the 2014 Georgia-Azerbaijan-Turkey Summit.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili is host for Turkey’s Abdullah Gül
TBILISI, DFWatch–New figures published by the Georgian Interior Ministry show that 390,685 people visited the country in April. This is 7.4 percent more than in the same period last year.
In the first four months of the current year, 1,396,952 people visited
TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO envoy James Appathurai will visit Georgia on Thursday.
Appathurai, whose full title is NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, will meet with government members and the parliament, the Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch–Young people in Georgia plan to mark the International Worker’s Day, May 1, with rallies different places in the country.
A rally will be held at Tbilisi State University at 14:00 by Young Social-Democrats, Georgia’s Young Greens, Georgia’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has decided to return books currently at Tbilisi State University that were brought here from Germany during World War II.
Shalva Tadumadze, the government’s parliamentary secretary, explained