Sunday, August 2, 2026

Saakashvili announces his return to Georgia before the elections

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Mikheil Saakashvili accuses Mr Ivanishvili of causing the death of Kakha Bendukidze by threatening to incarcerate him in a 4 m² cell

Tbilisi, DFWatch – The former president of Georgia and the current governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, Mikheil Saakashvili declared in an interview for Rustavi 2 that he’d return to Georgia and engage in the campaign before the parliamentary elections in October.

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Ivanishvili: UNM devastated science, new government tries to restore its dignity

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Bidzina Ivanishvili, his wife Ekaterine Khvedelidze, and PM Giorgi Kvirikashvili at the founding ceremony. (facebook)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – A foundation was laid on Monday to the construction of a technologic institute, which the government vows, will be ‘the fifth largest in the world after the same kind of facilities in Italy, Switzerland, Japan, and Austria’.

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Azeri activist tortured, humiliated for drawign graffiti on Haydar Alyev’s statue

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Photo: Graffiti at the Alyev’s statue were erased and round-the-clock police put on duty at the monument. (Meydan.tv)

Tbilisi, DFWatch – On evening of May 10 two activists disappeared in Baku, Meydan TV reported. Then on May 12, the Khatai District Court placed Bayram Mammadov and Qiyas Ibrahimov under a four-month arrest for drug-related charges.

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Georgia to seek international criminal prosecution for suspect in Khurcha incident

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The Prosecutor’s Office in Ortachala, Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In a statement released on Saturday, Prosecutor’s Office of Georgia laid out its version of the tragic event of May 19, and announced it would appeal to the court demanding detention in absentia of Rashid Kanciogli, identified as a person who allegedly

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[Updated] Bokeria, Melia, other UNM members attacked, beaten in Samegrelo

Nika Melia (center) and Tengiz Gunava, MP, in Kirtskheli after the incident. (20300
Nika Melia (center) and Tengiz Gunava, MP, (right) in Kirtskheli after the incident. (2030)

Tblisi, DFWatch- Members of the opposition United National Movement, including several high profile figures at the party, were brutally beaten in Samegrelo on Sunday.

The scuffle broke out in Kortskheli, a village near Zugdidi, administrative center of Samegrelo-Zemo

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Anti-NATO, anti-gay MP left Georgian Dream

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MP Tamaz Mechiauri left the ruling Georgian Dream coalition (ipn.ge)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tamaz Mechiauri, an outspoken member of Georgian Dream, known for his anti-NATO and anti-gay statements, left the ruling party, yet retains the post as chair of parliament’s finance and budget committee until the next elections in the fall of 2016.

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Georgian IDP killed by Abkhaz guards at checkpoint

An ethnic Georgian man was fatally wounded by an Abkhaz border officer in an incident that occurred at the Khurcha-Nabakevi checkpoint at the de facto border with Abkhazia, inside the territory under control of Georgian authorities. The video (+18) from a surveillance camera distributed by Rustavi 2 shows how four men in uniforms assault on … Read more