TBILISI, DFWatch–The building of a controversial hydropower dam in a mountainous region of Georgia may be further postponed, if the company behind it fails to submit the required documents in time.
The planned Khudoni hydropower project is located
TBILISI, DFWatch–Over a year after a wave of complaints about frequent police searches in the streets, new reports are coming in of the same problem.
People are being stopped and searched by the police in the streets. During one such raid, a reporter for media.ge
TBILISI, DFWatch–The body of a Georgian who died a few days ago in a bomb explosion in Ukraine’s Donetsk region arrived in Georgia on Monday.
Arsen Beridze, 23, from Adjara region, had been living in Ukraine with his family for the past 12 years. He was killed when
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili will attend the UN Climate Summit 2014 despite the express wishes of Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili.
The president has said many times that he will go to the US and his plan about the visit hasn’t changed.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government wants to strip the president of the power to set terms for student scholarships and studies abroad.
A new draft law about higher education will if passed let the it be up to the government to confirm the use of student advantages,
TBILISI, DFWatch–On September 6, DF Watch organized a discussion about the difficulties youth are having finding employment.
We invited students from three different universities to share their views on youth unemployment.
They agree that there are problems,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Students demonstrated Friday outside the Culture Ministry against a decision to only allow professors at accredited universities to become rector of the Academy of Art.
The decree was signed by Culture Minister Mikheil Giorgadze on September 1.
TBILISI, DFWatch–A 113 point declaration passed by leaders of NATO countries at the summit in Wales has two points about Georgia.
Apart from support for Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and a commitment that it will become a member of NATO someday
TBILISI, DFWatch–The torture of a 4-year old boy in a village in western Georgia has shocked Georgians and made many question official statistics indicating a significant decrease in crime.
Two days ago, Ketevan Arveladze was at home alone with her 4-year old when
TBILISI, DFWatch–Geologists in Georgia say heavy rainfall would cause another landslide in Dariali Valley, where eight people have already been killed this year in two natural disasters.
Six people were killed in a landslide in Dariali Valley May 17, and two more