Tbilisi, DFWatch – Amid growing inflow of Russian tourists to Georgia, the Russian Foreign Ministry warns its citizens about the risks associated with such visits, referring to the Law on Occupied Territories, which may result for RF citizens facing formidable fines or even prison term.
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Exiled Saakashvili losing grip on party, blasts former associates
Body of German missing since July found in Svaneti

TBILISI, DFWatch–The body of a German man who has been missing since July was found Thursday in Svaneti, a mountainous region in northwest of Georgia.
Sergei Smislov’s family has been looking for him for several months, believing that he was kidnapped
NATO starts joint military exercises in Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian army on Thursday has begun two weeks of military exercises with the NATO at the Vaziani military base, in Tbilisi eastern outskirts.
The Joint Training and Evaluation Centre
Tbilisi reacts to Trump's victory

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian leaders congratulated Donald Trump with being elected as president of the United States, while political analysts in Tbilisi tried to predict how the result will affect US-Georgian relations.
Georgian Dream parliamentarian Gia Volski
Georgia’s President: two-party dominated parliament won't encourage development
Tbilisi, DFWatch- President Giorgi Margvelashvili has announced that he feels disappointed regarding country’s parliamentary elections, as he was expected a multi-party system in the newly elected parliament, but it turned into a bipolar.
US support for Georgia will be even stronger: Ambassador Kelly

Tbilisi,DFWatch – Following the tense electoral night in the United States, Ian Kelly, US Ambassador to Georgia has emphasized that no matter who wins, US will remain strong alley to Georgia.
New Rights leaves Paata Burchuladze-led coalition
Tbilisi, DFWatch – Political party New Rights left a coalition led by operatic bass Paata Burchuladze after it suffered sound defeat in the parliamentary elections in October.
Mamuka Katsitadze, lead figure at the New Rights,
Pankisi native, reportedly ISIS member, killed in Middle East
TBILISI, DFWatch–One more Pankisi native has been killed in the Middle East. Reports vary about where the 24 year old Mukhad Khangoshvili was killed.
According to Interpressnews, which relies on an unidentified source in Pankisi, it happened in Mosul,

