Wednesday, September 2, 2026

Georgia's parliament has 41 millionaires

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Leader of Alliance of Patriots Nato Chkheidze is worth 51 million lari, according to the report. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–41 members of the Georgian parliament are millionaires (in GELs); 37 persons from the Georgian Dream majority and 4 members of two opposition parties, United National Movement and Alliance of Patriots.

There are six millionaire ministers

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New details expected in 'cyanide affair' as patriarch returns from Berlin

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Catholicos-Patriarch of All-Georgia Ilia II. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia expects new details to emerge about an alleged assassination attempt in the higher circles of the Orthodox Church, as Patriarch Ilia II has left the hospital in Berlin and is expected to arrive in Tbilisi at around 6pm Monday local time.

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Ex-laywer elected new Free Democrats leader

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Shalva Shavgulidze is the new Free Democrats leader. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former lawyer has been elected chairman of the embattled Free Democrats, perhaps the most staunchly pro-western party in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

The Free Democrats’ failure to win any seats in the 2016 parliamentary elections coupled with

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Georgia reacts to arrest of priest on murder attempt charges

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Prime Minster Giorgi Kvirikashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgians are reacting to the detention of an Orthodox priest whom prosecutors accuse of trying to poison a high church official, widely believed to be the head of the Georgian Church.

The story immediately went viral in Georgia, where the Orthodox Church

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