TBILISI, DFWatch – The State Audit Service has intervened in the activity of the TV company Maestro, demanding information about advertising agreements and money transfers with Georgian Dream and Komagi foundation, which is also affiliated with the Georgian Dream
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Georgian asylum seekers arrested for theft in Germany
TBILISI, DFWatch – German media reports that Georgians are among the suspects in a bust against shop-lifters in the city of Bielefeld in Germany.
The suspects are Georgian and Ukrainian. Several people have been convicted.
A man of about 29 from Ukraine stole perfume
Chlorine leak in Tbilisi claims one victim
TBILISI, DFWatch – A chlorine leak in Tbilisi July 3 has claimed one death as 18 year old Lasha Narimanidze died from poisoning.
The leak happened in the evening from tanks in the Tbilisi suburb Lilo. It poisoned up to 80 people. Lasha Narimanidze was in a serious
Cartu Group and Progress Bank seized by authorities
TBILISI, DFWatch – The National Enforcement Bureau has asked Tbilisi City Court to transfer the shares of Cartu Group and Progress Bank to a compulsory management regime.
The Enforcement Bureau seized all 100 percent shared that Georgian Dream coalition leader Bidzina
Second TV station targetted in satellite dish clamp-down
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Government is to seize satellite receivers belonging to the small, independent TV station Maestro under a controversial new party finance regulation.
The Prosecetor’s Office suspects that Maestro is distributing satellite receivers to voters
Less Georgians want NATO membership
TBILISI, DFWatch – There is a significant drop in support among Georgians for their country being integrated in NATO. In six months, the level of support has fallen from 70 to 62 percent.
Also the support for Georgia being integrated with the EU has dropped since
Bulgaria recognizes Georgian neutral passports
TBILISI, DFWatch – Bulgaria has sided with Georgia in a dispute over how to allow the civilian population in Georgia’s breakaway regions travel abroad.
Two regions broke away from Georgia during the breakup of the Socviet Union, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, leading
Georgia to supply US military
TBILISI, DFWatch – The former Soviet republic of Georgia is to become a supplier of goods the U.S. military.
Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili announced the news Tuesday during the opening of a conference on Georgian-American cooperation in Batumi.
French senators on field trip near disputed Georgian village
TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of French senators on a midsummer visit Tuesday toured close to a village which was taken by Russia in the 2008 war.
The senators’s trip took them to the surrounding area close to the village Akhalgori. The village was renamed Leningor
Official murdered in South Ossetia
TBILISI, DFWatch – Media in Russia and Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia report that the head of the investigation department at the de facto South Ossetian Prosecutor General’s office has been murdered.
Roland Chitayev was reported kidnapped on Monday