Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Ex-official has no time to answer questions about police brutality in 2011

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Gia Lortkipanidze doesn’t have time to answer questions about policy brutality on May 26, 2011, because he has to hold a speech in the parliament in Ukraine. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former Georgian government official has refused to travel from Ukraine to Georgia to answer questions about a violent dispersal of anti-government protesters five and a half years ago.

Gia Lortkipanidze is head of police in Ukraine’s Odessa region,

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Georgia arrests two bank robbers with some of the stolen money

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Their robbery spree targeted two banks and a convenience store in Vazisubani, a district of Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia arrested two men Monday who are suspected of robbing several banks and a convenience store in the Vazisubani district of Tbilisi two days earlier.

One of the men was arrested on the Armenian border at Sadakhlo,

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Georgia condemns Russian election precincts inside breakaway territories

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Voting for Russia’s State Duma in Tskhinvali on Sunday. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia condemned the election Sunday for the Russian State Duma inside the two breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) called on the international community to react against this

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Russian patrol detains 17-year-old Georgian on disputed border

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(Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards on Friday detained a 17-year-old Georgian near the border with South Ossetia.

The incident took place in the village Bershueti.

The detainee, Joni Gogichaishvili from the village Sobisi, was taken to the detention facility

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