TBILISI, DFWatch – Alla Dzhioyeva, the defiant opposition leader in Georgia’s breakaway South Ossetia, asks her supporters to vote in Sunday’s election.
She herself, however, is boycotting the poll. She was the apparent winner of last November’s election, which the region’s
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s breakaway region South Ossetia is preparing for another presidential election. The poll on March 25 will be the region’s second attempt, after the first one failed and led to a still unresolved protest campaign by the winner to claim victory.
TBILISI, DFWatch – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has appointed a special representative to South Ossetia, five days after awarding the same kind of job title in regards to Abkhazia, the other Georgian breakaway region.
The person in charge of South Ossetia, the arena
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Interior Ministry said March 21 that all armed groups are under the control of the government.
“There are no other armed units, cannot be and won’t be,” said Shota Utiashvilil, head of the Interior Ministry’s press and analytical department.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The U.S. National Democratic Institute today presented its latest findings about public attitudes in Georgia.
The survey was conducted in February 2012 by Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC).
The topics for the questionnaire covered the themes
TBILISI, DFWatch – A pro-democracy campaign in the former Soviet republic Georgia is noting a slight progress as parliament Wednesday took into account their criticism.
The groups have said that recent changes to the campaign finance rules pose a threat to democracy.
TBILISI, DFWatch – The former Soviet republic of Georgia has made the building of Lazika, a hypothetical metropol on the Black Sea, one of its top priorities.
The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili announced the plan at the end of 2011. He said Georgia plans to build
TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition politician in Georgia Tuesday described in more detail what he knows about an alleged paramilitary force recently established by President Saakashvili in the west of the country.
But he said documents about the illegal armed units will not
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian border police Monday detained a Russian cargo ship carrying coal across the Black Sea from Ukraine to Turkey.
The Pur-Navolok is now in arrest in the Georgian port Batumi with its Russian crew of ten.
Preliminary information indicates that
TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition candidate Tuesday presented details about an alleged secret paramilitary organization he claims was recently organized by President Mikheil Saakashvili in western Georgia.
Leader of the Free Democrats Irakli Alasania had called the press