DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, October 22 – Conflicting reports have emerged after Reuters claimed that a tanker carrying Russian crude arrived in Georgia’s Black Sea port of Kulevi for processing, potentially putting the country in a politically sensitive position amid Western sanctions on Moscow. According to Reuters, the tanker Kaiseri delivered more than 105,000 metric tons of “Siberian … Read more
TBILISI, October 22 – Georgian police detained twelve demonstrators in the capital during the past 24 hours for violating public assembly laws, as protests continue outside the parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue despite mounting restrictions. According to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, protesters “continued to engage in unlawful actions” by blocking traffic … Read more
TBILISI, October 22 – Journalists in the Georgian coastal city of Batumi held a rally on Wednesday to protest the recent arrests of several reporters, calling the detentions an attack on media freedom. Carrying banners that read “Who will expose corruption and nepotism if there is no media?”, demonstrators gathered outside the Constitutional Court and … Read more
TBILISI, October 22 – Georgia’s long-awaited Anaklia deep-sea port will receive its first ships by 2029, according to Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Tamar Ioseliani, who spoke during a panel discussion at the Silk Road Forum in Tbilisi. Ioseliani described the project not just as a port, but as “a platform for services … Read more
TBILISI, October 22 – A four-year-old boy died after falling from the balcony of a seventh-floor apartment in Tbilisi’s northern Gldani district on Tuesday. The Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the tragic incident, according to a report by Interpressnews. No further details about the circumstances of the incident have been released.
TBILISI, October 22 – Two imprisoned journalists from Georgia and Belarus have been named the winners of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Parliament’s top human rights award. Announcing the decision in Strasbourg, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola praised their courage, saying that example shown by Georgia’s Mzia Amaghlobeli, founder of … Read more
TBILISI, October 22 – The former president of Georgia’s National Handball Federation, Zurab Kakabadze, has denied charges that he embezzled nearly half a million lari (about USD 175,000) in federation funds while in office, according to his lawyer. Kakabadze was arrested yesterday by officers from the Prosecutor General’s Office, which accuses him of using his … Read more
TBILISI, October 21 – Georgia’s tourism revenue rose 6.5% in the third quarter of 2025, reaching USD 1.67 billion, according to the country’s central bank. But behind the headline figure lies a growing distortion: many of the biggest spenders are no longer tourists at all, BPN reports. The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) reported that … Read more
TBILISI, October 21 – Police in eastern Georgia have opened an investigation after a 34-year-old man was found dead near the village of Kardenakhi, in the Gurjaani municipality of Kakheti region, Interpressnews reports. According to local residents, the man’s body was discovered along the Bakurtiskhe–Gurjaani bypass road. His car was found abandoned nearby. Locals are … Read more
TBILISI, October 21 – Georgia has scrapped plans for dozens of hydro, wind, and solar power plants after finding that most existed only on paper and had no realistic chance of being built. The government’s October 13 decree canceled 1,746 megawatts worth of planned capacity from unfinished or unstarted projects that never advanced beyond early-stage … Read more