TBILISI, DFWatch–The director of an influential Tbilisi-based non-governmental organization says he was detained for illegal possession of a firearm on December 12.
Giorgi Kldiashvili, head of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI), on Tuesday
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former head of shift of Zurab Zhvania’s security detail, who was detained in the new investigation into the prime minister’s death in 2005, was Sunday released from preliminary detention on a 2,000 lari bail (nearly USD 1,090).
Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania
TBILISI, DFWatch–One more former official from Mikheil Saakashvili’s government has been granted Ukrainian citizenship after being proposed for a high post in the new Ukrainian government.
Eka Zghuladze, a former deputy interior minister in Georgia, is now candidate
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Finance Ministry’s investigative service detained one more Defense Ministry official on Saturday.
Bakhva Surmanidze was detained for accepting a 400 lari (USD 218) bribe.
He is head of the purchasing department at the Giorgi Abramashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–A film by a Georgian filmmaker has been nominated for a Golden Globe award.
Tangerines, or Mandariinid, is a Georgian-Estonian production written and directed by the Georgian Zaza Urushadze. Producer of the film is Ivo Felt and it starrs Georgian
TBILISI, DFWatch–South Ossetia may open its border with Russia and even seek some form of closer association, the breakaway region’s leader says.
de facto president Leonid Tibilov said Wednesday that a ‘treaty of collaboration’ with Russia is likely to be signed
TBILISI, DFWatch–Two demonstrations were held in Georgia Wednesday in support of the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who was recently detained.
Ismayilova was placed in preliminary detention in Baku on December 5, after being subject to a travel ban earlier
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is beginning a debate about restructuring the Ministry of Internal Affairs and make the domestic intelligence a separate service.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said this after a government session on Wednesday.
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TBILISI, DFWatch–A public funeral was held Tuesday for four victims of a plane crash during the Abkhazia war more than twenty years ago.
The four were on a plane that was about to land in Sukhumi September 22, 1993, to evacuate head of state Eduard Shevardnadze.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is working on a new bill that will punish people for joining terrorist organizations abroad.
Spokesperson for the Interior Ministry tells DF Watch that the details of the new bill will be known after a draft has been sent