Friday, December 5, 2025

Two former counterintelligence officials arrested in Georgia

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Guram Donadze was also questioned, but said he had nothing to do with the fake video. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Chief Prosecutor in Georgia has ordered the arrest of former officials at the Constitutional Security Department (CSD), after they were questioned about the cases against Bacho and Data Akhalaia.

Former CSD head Levan Kardava and Giorgi

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Campaign asks people to turn off mobile phones in protest

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Nino Lomjaria, head of International Society For Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED). (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Several Georgian NGOs that are involved in the campaign ‘This Affects You Too-They Still Listen to Us’ call on citizens to turn off their mobile phones for two hours and protest against the government’s illegal wiretapping.

Nino Lomjaria, head

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Georgian opposition parties call ruling coalition undemocratic

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Nino Burjanadze, leader of Democratic Movement, is one of the signatories of the statement. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Political parties not represented in parliament accuse the government of making one-sided decisions in relation to the Election Code.

The opposition parties accuse the governing Georgian Dream coalition of anti-democratic actions when it last week

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Hundreds from a Georgian mining village demonstrated in Tbilisi

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People from Kazreti and their supporters demand better work conditions for workers in the mines. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Several hundreds people from the village Kazreti in southern Georgia demonstrated in front of the government office in Tbilisi on Friday.

They demand that the government mediates between the workers and the company that owns the mines in their

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Why is a whole village in Georgia on strike?

School kids on strike (DF Watch)
School kids on strike (DF Watch)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For about two weeks, the entire Kazreti village has been on strike. People have joined the strike among workers in the gold mines.

Eight people are on hunger strike. The workers want increased salaries, improved working conditions and insurance, and

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Georgian Lawyer's Association chair attacked by rebel members

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Zaza Khatiashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgian Lawyer’s Association, some of the members have started procedures to dismiss their chairman.

The rebel members claim the reason is that Zaza Khatiashvili is a supporter of the former ruling party, the National Movement, and also that he

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Georgian president meets locals near contested border

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President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Wednesday met people who live close to the de facto border near the town Kareli. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili says he hopes that the barbed wire which Russian soldiers are installing at the so-called border with two breakaway territories will eventually be sent away peacefully as scrap metal.

Margvelashvili

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Mine workers on strike in Chiatura describe unfair conditions

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Roland Abdushelishvili (center), spokesperson for the miners on strike. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The mine workers in Chiatura have once more gone on strike. For five days, several hundred have not showed up at work, while others say they are ready to join the strike.

After the change of government in 2012, the miners in Chiatura went on strike

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