TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s National Communications Commission (GNCC) claims that broadcasters will be forced to air free political commercials, even if they don’t air paid commercials. Regional broadcasters say it is an incorrect interpretation of the law, which will
TBILISI, DFWatch – The bank accounts of the director and seven employees of Cartu Bank were seized today. The bank is known as being connected to the opposition Georgian Dream bloc.
Nodar Javakhishvili today told journalists that the seizure has connection to a
TBILISI, DFWatch – The financial monitoring service of Georgia’s state audit office accuses Bidzina Ivanishvili and his partner, a former professional football player, of withdrawing money from their own accounts, and calls on both of them to return the money to
TBILISI, DFWatch – A report sent out by a Georgian news agency led to controversy Tuesday.
GHN’s report said that after Russia became involved in the war in South Ossetia on August 8, 2008, it legally brought military equipment into the region.
This report was read
TBILISI, DFWatch – Commemoration events will be held during a whole week in Georgia to pay tribute to victims of Russian-Georgian war in 2008.
370 people died as a result of the five-day war. 190 of them were civilians, 169 soldiers and 14 policemen, three journalists
TBILISI, DFWatch – Refugees from the 2008 Russia-Georgia war forced a journalist from Maestro TV to leave their settlement by throwing stones at her.
Khurvaleti is a small village in Gori municipality, where there are cottages for refugees from the Tskhinvali war four
TBILISI, DFWatch – A lawyer for a company affiliated with the largest opposition bloc in Georgia has been sentenced to twenty days administrative detention for resisting police.
His lawyers say Tbilisi City Court’s decision was illegal and are going to appeal.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Four Russian climbers have been rescued from Svaneti, a mountain region north in Georgia adjacent to the greater Caucasus range.
The four were found after a two days search, in an area cut off by a rockslide.
One of the climbers had injured a leg,
TBILISI, DFWatch – Prices for all types of fuel have gone up 5 tetri in Georgia, which is a two percent rise.
The Oil Product Import Union explained the price rise with increased burning of fuel in summer, which always increases the prices of oil products internationally.
Earlier, the
TBILISI, DFWatch – The former member of the Georgian parliament and mafia boss Bondo Shalikian has been shot and killed in Minsk, Belarus. According to Belarusian police, the murder took place in the night of August 7.
Investigators in Belarus are working from