TBILISI, DFWatch–The Appeals Court in Georgia upheld the City Court’s guilty verdict against former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili for the May 26, 2011, violent dispersal of anti-government protesters.
Tbilisi City Court in February sentenced Merabishvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–A former government official in Georgia has pleaded guilty in the murder of bank employee Sandro Girgvliani in 2006.
The 28-year old Girgvliani was brutally murdered after a scuffle at a cafe in Tbilisi, during a birthday party for an Interior Ministry
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili accuses the Prosecutor’s Office of publishing a document which was classified as top secret, but the office denied this.
August 8, Margvelashvili expressed concern about the publishing of
TBILISI, DFWatch–Locals demonstrated in an eastern Georgian village on Monday, demanding to get running water installed.
People living in the village Ninigori in the Lagodekhi region claim they have been without running water for more than 20 years.
During all this time,
TBILISI, DFWatch–A police employee was Sunday detained in Batumi, a city on Georgia’s Black Sea coast, accused of receiving a bribe two days prior.
According to the Interior Ministry’s press department, the general inspection detained an employee of the patrol
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s basketball team won 73-62 against the Czech Republic on Sunday in a qualification match for FIBA EuroBasket 2015.
There was a scuffle during the match. On one of the tribunes, Georgian fans started a quarrel. It didn’t last long,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign minister is criticized by opponents for saying that the economic sanctions against Russia will not solve the Ukraine crisis. The minister says she was misinterpreted.
Maia Panjikidze on Thursday said that sanctions against Russia
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili last year thought the presidential palace was too luxurious for him to use, but now he defends his decision to make it his place of work.
In the presidential election campaign in October, 2013, Margvelashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch–A war of words developed between Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Georgian PM Irakli Gharibashvili on Friday as the two spoke on the phone.
In the conversation, Gharibashvili called Bildt, as well as Lithuanian FM Linas Linkevicius, members
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia President Giorgi Margvelashvili has rebuffed a parliamentarian in his own coalition for criticizing a tweet by Sweden’s Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
The controversy started when Bildt criticized the criminal charges against former President Mikheil