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Batumi Summer Set Festival kicks off Thursday

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Batumi is getting ready for three days of electronic music. (Festival handout photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s sea resort Batumi is hosting a three-day summer festival of electronic music starting Thursday.

Batumi Summer Set Festival runs from August 22 to 24 and will host many well-known names in the genre.

Among the headliners are Denmark’s

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Saakashvili wants to promote wine industry after end of term

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President Mikheil Saakashvili is feeling bored sitting in his office. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili plans to open an education center for viticulture, wine-making and vine care in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region, where he owns a house and vineyards.

Speaking in front of journalists at his palace in Tbilisi Wednesday,

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Witness in Girgvliani case suspended as priest

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Mikael Botkoveli, head of the press office at the Patriarchate. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Church, the Patriarchate, has suspended a priest who recently claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office pressured him to give testimony against former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia.

Mikael Botkoveli, head of the press office at

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Queue outside president's palace to get criminal records cleared

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Ex-prisoners are queueing outside the presidential palace after Saakashvili promised to clear their records. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former prisoners and people on probation crowded outside President Mikheil Saakashvili’s palace in Tbilisi after he offered to pardon them and clear their criminal record.

The president said August 19 that people who are probationers or have

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Georgia's election system: Improvements and pitfalls

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From left to right: Levan Natroshvili (TI), Lela Taliauri (GYLA), Irina Imerlishvili, MP, and journalist Rusiko Machaidze. (DFWatch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–DF Watch organized a round table on election issues with representatives of two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream coalition.

They discussed amendments to the election legislation and also problems which

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