Daily Archives: May 10, 2016

Avalanche kills a shepherd in northeast of Georgia

By | May 10th, 2016|Categories: In brief|

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 27 year old man was killed by an avalanche on Tuesday in Tusheti, in the northeast of Georgia. A 44 year old man was also injured and taken to the hospital in Telavi, in the Kakheti province. The victim was from the village Kistauri, near Akhmeta. […]

Fmr Saakashvili official who brought simpler services launches new party

By | May 10th, 2016|Categories: Politics|Tags: , , |

Giorgi Vashadze. (Interpressnews.) TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian politician who was deputy justice minister during Mikheil Saakashvili’s presidency has left the National Movement and plans to start a new party. Giorgi Vashadze is perhaps best known for having overseen the reform known as […]

Offshore Leaks database premieres in Tbilisi

By | May 10th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

‘It doesn’t necessarily mean that these people had anything to do with offshore... Anyone’s name can show up in this database. It’s a database without a brain’, Dave Bloss (left) from OCCRP Caucasus explaines. Global launch of the Offshore Leaks database revealed names of eighty-five Georgian citizens, some of who might potentially be implicated [...]

Auditorium 115 to ask court’s help to break student union’s ‘monopoly’

By | May 10th, 2016|Categories: Youth|Tags: , , |

Auditorium 115 was formed during the student protests at Tbilisi State University in March. (DF Watch.) TBILISI, DFWatch–The student movement Auditorium 115 plans to file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court demanding to amend several regulations in the law about higher education. Members of the organization which was created during protests […]

Agency for Religious Issues: Civil society fosters Islamic terrorism

By | May 10th, 2016|Categories: Minorities|

A mosque in Adjara (DFWatch) Tbilisi, DFWatch – NGO and Muslim activists slam the State Agency for Religious Issues for accusing the civil society of fostering Islamic terrorism and radicalism by pointing out structural violence on behalf of the state and the Georgian Orthodox Church. […]