TBILISI, DFWatch–Former interior minister and close Saakashvili ally Bacho Akhalaia has been moved from a relatively privileged facility to Prison No 8 in north Tbilisi, notorious for numerous cases of torture and death.
Akhalaia, who has been in detention since
TBILISI, DFWatch–A draft law already presented to parliament which will reduce the powers of the president may be amended.
According to the draft of constitutional changes, if the president dismisses parliament and government, he won’t have the right to himself
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Venice Commission of the Council of Europe is finished preparing its first set of recommendations regarding a draft bill for reforming the Georgian justice system.
Even though the recommendations have not yet been published, both President
Tbilisi, DFWatch–Georgia’s Speaker of Parliament on Sunday left for his first visit to the US amidst harsh criticism of the country’s new government from the Congress and US media.
Davit Usupashvili, the speaker and the chairman of the Republican Party,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The government want to question newly returned former defense minister Dimitry Shashkin about the embezzlement of state money and appropriation of petrol belonging to the ministry.
Defense Minister adviser Vako Avaliani said Friday that an
TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office has presented a new charge against the former head of the military police for illegal deprivation of liberty and humiliating treatment.
Khatuna Paichadze, spokesperson for the Prosecutor’s Office, said Saturday that Megis
Adopting a bipartisan resolution on foreign policy in Georgia is significant both in terms of process and in terms of substance.
In terms of process, anything bipartisan, in the first experience of a real bipolar party system, not least a cohabitation, should not be
TBILISI, DFWatch–Four out of nineteen ministers appeared at the government session on Thursday with some kind of injury.
Journalists were surprised to see minister after minister arriving with a broken arm or a black eye.
Energy Minister Kakhi Kaladze, a former AC
TBILISI, DFWatch–Members of parliament in Georgia will not receive bonuses after 2013. The total amount of bonuses was over 2.5 million lari in 2012.
According to the Institute for development of freedom of information (IDFI), in 2012, MPs were given an additional
TBILISI, DFWatch–The controversial restoration of Georgia’s historic Bagrati Cathedral has been awarded the international prize Domus Restoration and Conservation.
According to the jury, ‘the intervention of critical reintegration of Bagrati Cathedral, one of the