TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgiy Ramazashvili, a Moscow-based archival researcher, in July 2011 discovered that there was new construction work on a historic cemetery in Moscow where many Georgian royals, nobles and historic persons are buried. After Georgian and Russian media
TBILISI, DFWatch – ‘I am a reporter, not a spy’; ‘we want free media’ – these were some of the slogans seen during a demonstration in Tbilisi Thursday to mark World Press Freedom Day.
The first rally started at 12:00 noon. Protesters symbolically tied their eyes,
TBILISI, DFWatch – A Georgian billionaire’s opposition movement has launched its own TV channel.
Channel 9 started broadcasting April 30 and has been given a license by the National Communication Commission to broadcast via satellite. The broadcasting permit is for
TBILISI, DFWatch – People gathered in front of parliament Thursday to protest against mistreatment of prisoners, spurred by the news of another death of a prisoner who bore signs of having been beaten.
Police reported that the prisoner died of a heart attack, but
TBILISI, DFWatch – There are suspicions that a prisoner may have died as a result of torture.
The family of Zurab Delianidze (39) claims that he was violently tortured and demand an inquest, according to TSPress.ge, a website run by the newspaper Tavisupali Sitkva.
TBILISI, DFWatch – A new poll shows that no matter who is nominated to suceed Mikheil Saakashvili, his party will win the next Georgian presidential election.
A poll by the International Republican Institute shows that Saakashvili’s National Movement party still has
TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president says that after he has passed away, he wants his ashes to be spread over a holiday resort on the shores of the Black Sea.
President Mikheil Saakashvili said this during a visit to Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city, where he is to
TBILISI, DFWatch – The issue about returning management of Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem to Georgia has no connection with the government of Israel, says Yitzhak Gerber, Israel’s Ambassador to Georgia.
On May 1, before an event Sheraton Metekhi Palace Hotel in
TBILISI, DFWatch – The new parliament building in Georgia will be only partly completed by the time of the opening session on May 26.
In 2011, Mikheil Saakashvili announced that he would move parliament to Kutaisi, Georgia’s second biggest city. He also said that
TBILISI, DFWatch -The Georgian ombudsman criticizes a control body overseeing the financing of political parties for having violated civil rights.
Earlier this year, there began to come reports about a wave of interrogations in parts of the country outside of Tbilisi.