Thursday, May 28, 2026

Airing of edited Robakidze video condemned

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Outside the Rustavi 2 studio building Thursday. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The public defender and several major non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia condemn Rustavi 2 TV for airing the footage of the 2004 police raid which killed a teenager.

The Robakidze incident has been in the focus of the public interest

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Ivanishvili government's first 100 days

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From left to right: Eka Gigauri from Transparency International, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, and Prison Minister Sozar Subari. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia met for a conference on Monday to sum up the three months after the parliamentary election of Georgia.

Representatives of NGOs working in the human rights field described the government’s first 100

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What Constitutions are not about and what foreign policy is about

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Tedo Japaridze is chairman of parliament’s foreign affairs committee.

Polemical reflections on the UNM’s proposal for the constitutionalization of Georgian Foreign Policy

Constitutions are binding principles that are non-negotiable in the context of a polity. This is why principles enshrined in a Constitution set minimum benchmarks,

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The End of Neoliberal Hegemony

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Bakar Berekashvili is a lecturer at Georgian-American University in Tbilisi.

The new ruling political class needs to make more effort to emancipate their minds from market oriented stereotypes, writes Bakar Berekashvili.

20 years of post-communist transition cultivated and produced lots of troubles, dramas and traumas in many post-communist

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Three detained after Friday's violence

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Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili trying to calm the crowd outside the National Library Friday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police today detained a person who Friday hit Chiora Taktakishvili, member of parliament for the National Movement, causing bleeding and injuries to her nose.

According to the interior minister police this morning detained Giorgi Mamaladze, who is

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