TBILISI, DFWatch–The organization Droa protested outside Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s business center Monday evening, installing barbed wires at the entrance.
Police prohibited them from blocking the road with wires, so they placed them on the side walk.
TBILISI, DFWatch–The two Georgian breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia will not take part in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as independent nations.
Georgia’s National Olympic Committee has received a letter from the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
TBILISI, DFWatch–A man attempted to set himself on fire at a protest rally in front of Tbilisi City Hall on Monday.
Pouring gasoline over himself, the man said he has nothing in this world and there is no point in living.
Protesters and police managed to stop him and took
TBILISI, DFWatch–81 companies have received and produced the highest amounts of grapes for decades, according to the Agriculture Ministry: 80 097.6 tons of grapes have already been processed this season. Last year, the number was 52 000 tons.
Of Saperavi, one of the
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili was given a hero’s welcome at Tbilisi airport Sunday, but outside the old parliament building protesters burnt an effigy of him.
A crowd greeted Saakashvili as he arrived at the airport on Sunday night. They said that the
TBILISI, DFWatch–67 prisoners were released on Saturday on recommendation of the commission for early release, according to the Prison Ministry. 14 of the released prisoners are women.
The ministry says the commission has reviewed about 300 cases and
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian journalists Saturday rallied in Dvani against the newly restarted work by Russian soldiers to reinforce a de facto border with the breakaway region South Ossetia.
Locals say the Russian soldiers are going to move the razor wire perimeter 50
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia is looking to increase police powers.
Police will no longer have the right to stop and search people on ‘reasonable doubt’, but will have powers to do ‘special police control’, which according to the government’s
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian citizens may be barred from leaving the country because of state interests, and may not even be able to know the real reason for it, even by going to court.
Members of the Georgian Dream coalition, who are the authors of the draft bill, say
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is pondering the creation of a language inspection which will fine domestic media and public officials up to five thousand lari (nearly USD 3000) if they show lack of knowledge of the state language.
The bill is still in the process of being prepared, but