TBILISI, DFWatch – Salome (22) is a reporter for a Tbilisi-based online newspaper. Due to her job, she needs to visit different places in the capital at least five times a day. Her managers do not cover transportation fees for her, as the office is run on a tight budget
Month: September 2012
European foreign ministers anticipate important Georgia poll
TBILISI, DFWatch – The foreign ministers of Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and the Czech Republic said during a visit to Georgia that the parliamentary election in two weeks are important.
The ministers met with Georgia’s foreign minister, and the main topic
Students demonstrating for their rights
TBILISI, DFWatch – A group of university students refuses to attend lectures when the new academic year begins 17 September. They claim that the quality of education is not on the level they expect, based on how much they pay.
The student’s movement Laboratoria 1918
EU ambassador urges parties to trust observers
TBILISI, DFWatch – The EU ambassador to Georgia on Saturday evaluated the election period in the country and once again remarked that it is important that participants recognize the election results if international organizations do so.
Philip Dimitrov on Saturday
Likely scenarios for the election aftermath
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia expert Lincoln Mitchell sees several possible outcomes of the election, and explained to us his assessment of the situation.
DFWatch: Your prognosis, your predictions about these elections, its outcomes are interesting.Lincoln Mitchell: Well, we don’t know for sure
Georgia to organize disaster exercise
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia is to conduct a consequence management field exercise together with Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre (EADRCC) in September, 2012.
Consequence management field exercise ‘Georgia 2012’ will be conducted in an area near
Students demand fired professor reinstated
TBILISI, DFWatch – Students at the state university in Tbilisi have launched a protest to demand that a lecturer who was fired for her political views gets back her position.
Professor of philosophy and gender researcher Lela Gafrindashvili was teaching various
Georgia condemns embassy attacks
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia condemns the attacks on the embassies of Germany and UK.
Georgia’s Foerign Affairs Ministry on Saturday released a statement which says that the country is concerned about the incidents which took place in the capital of Sudan.
“There is
Post-war observers in Georgia to stay another year
TBILISI, DFWatch – EU Monitoring Mission to Georgia (EUMM) will continue its activity for one more year until September 14, 2013.
The European Council on Friday extended EUMM for one more year and €20.9 million was allocated in next year’s budget.
Catherine Ashton,
Russian election observers rejected by Georgia
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Central Election Commission has rejected applications from two Russian organizations to register as observers for the parliamentary election on October 1.
September 9, the CEC decided to deny the State Duma of the Russian Federation and