Saturday, December 6, 2025

One more brutal murder case from 2008 reopened

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Nino Giorgobiani, spokesperson for the Ministry of Internal Affairs. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A few days before the local elections, the Interior Ministry in Georgia has gone public with details of yet one more crime conducted by Saakashvili’s government in which opponents were treated with a brutality reminiscent of Scorsese movies.

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Emergence of entrepreneurship in Georgia

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Irina Guruli is Program Manager at the Economic Policy Research Center.

Georgia’s economy is made of two components: the so-called formal sector and the “unobserved” part. In the observed part of Georgian economy, 96 percent of all registered firms are small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs). However, there are many registered firms

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Saakashvili offers to help Georgian government

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Ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former President Mikheil Saakashvili continues to offer his assistance.

On Sunday, after instructing Ukraine’s new president, Petro Poroshenko, to under no circumstance weaken the military operation against pro-Moscow separatists in the east,

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One man dies in accident at Zestaponi metal plant

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Workers at the Ferro plant in Zestaponi say conditions are still hazardous. One man died from electric shock last Tuesday. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 50-year old man died last Tuesday night at the ferroalloy plant in Zestaponi as he was hit by a high voltage electric shock.

Mamuka Nebieridze died on the spot in the June 3 accident. An investigation has been launched in order to determine whether

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Georgia doesn't know what Obama's military assistance means

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“A historical moment for our country’s relation with NATO,” says Georgia’s Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian government is unable to say specifically what Barack Obama’s initiative to boost the military capacity of non-NATO partner countries will mean and how the US will assist Georgia, but they welcome the initiative.

Georgia’s defense

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A lost Georgian letter & Europe’s idealist deficit

Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.

Recently, I made a discovery of the kind that spices up historians’ books. In my archive, I discovered a draft of a letter by Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first Georgian President, directed to Secretary James Baker. The date was 1991. These were devastating but hopeful

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Continued speculation about who should sign Georgia's EU treaty

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Georgia’s treaty with the EU will be signed by Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, although he is not head of state. Will that make the treaty invalid? (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–When Georgia signs an association agreement with the European Union in late June, it will be Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili who will do the signing.

This is despite it clearly being stated in the constitution that the president is the one who signs

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Waiting to get away from Metalurg Sanatorium

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Around sixty refugee families are living in unbearable conditions in Metalurg Sanatorium in Tskaltubo, Georgia. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For more than 20 years, Eter, 74, has been living in Metalurg Sanatorium in Tskaltubo, a town in western Georgia. Apart from her, there are 60 families there; all refugees from the breakaway region Abkhazia.

After Eter’s husband passed away, she

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Tserovani – the village of refugees from 2008 war

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Nino Chalisuli, 37, has four children and runs a small shop in Tserovani called ‘Everything for one lari’. (DF Watch.)

TSEROVANI, DFWatch– Tserovani is a settlement of refugees from the breakaway region South Ossetia. People settled here in small cottages after the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008.

More than 2,000 cottages were built in Tserovani after the war, housing many

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