TBILISI, DFWatch – Saakashvili’s main competitor Bidzina Ivanishvili has named 12 more majoritarian candidates to stand for election from regions outside of Tbilisi.
The Georgian Dream coalition has until now named 40 majoritarian candidates. The rest, including
TBILISI, DFWatch – The international law firm Skadden is going to represent the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili in his struggle as opposition politician.
Yesterday, he met David Herlihy, head of Skadden’s London office and Gregory Craig, head
TBILISI, DFWatch – Another eight thousand satellite dishes belonging to Maestro TV has been seized by the police.
The seizure comes in addition to an action by the prosecutor’s office on July 11, when tens of thousands of satellite dishes were seized from Maestro.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Three Georgian Dream activists were arrested July 16 on suspicion of bribery.
According to the Justice Ministry, one of the suspects, Merab Kachakhidze, transferred 7 000 lari to the chair of the Conservative party’s branch in Mtatsminda
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Russian general says there won’t be another war with Georgia, thanks to military bases stationed in the two breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
“There will not take place a recurrence of conflict in the Caucasus,” said Vladimir
TBILISI, DFWatch – The opposition Georgian Dream party does not trust the results of a survey conducted by the National Democratic Institute (NDI), which shows that the governing party of President Saakashvili has twice as much support as Georgian Dream.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Batumi City Council has replaced the director of the local dolphinarium after security guards entered the facility Monday.
The dolphinarium in Batumi was reopened on the initiative of the local government after 20 years of non-functioning. This
TBILISI, DFWatch – Media workers in Georgia demonstrated Monday in support of a TV company.
They were protesting the seizure of thousands by the Ministry of Justice of satellite dishes belonging to TV company Maestro.
The background is a marketing push by
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia June 29 moved a police checkpoint a few hundred meters into Russian-controlled territory in the South Ossetian breakaway region. The EU has been mediating talks on the ensuing controversy.
The checkpoint was moved from the village Mereti
TBILISI, DFWatch – A new poll shows that the opposition Georgian Dream movement has nearly doubled its support in the last six months. But it still has a long way to go to match the ruling National Movement party, if the poll is correct.
The ruling party has