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
TBILISI, DFWatch–Bank of Georgia was subject to an armed robbery in downtown Tbilisi late on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs was tight-lipped about the details, beyond noting that an investigation has been launched and criminal experts are studying the
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,
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
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian man is in hospital in a serious condition after being beaten while in detention awaiting his extradition to his home country.
The man, Davit Chkhitunidze, was detained at Athens airport on August 14 as he was preparing to fly to Turkey,
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is in 55th place of 178 countries on the Failed States Index for 2013. This is a slight improvement position compared to previous years.
On top of the list are Somalia, Congo, Sudan and South Sudan. The least failed countries are Finland,
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
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s interagency commission for free and fair elections on Monday held its first session. It was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice.
The commission was created ahead of last year’s parliamentary election to prevent
TBILISI, DFWatch–Several persons have already expressed interest in buying Georgia’s Channel 9, which yesterday stopped functioning.
The TV station’s director Luba Eliashvili said to employees gathered outside its office building that several persons already have