Friday, January 23, 2026

KaZantip organizer to priests: 'We have a no drugs policy'

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KaZantip is planned held in Anaklia, a beach resort in Georgia near the border with Abkhazia. (Palitra.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The manager of KaZantip has offered to meet priests and conservative activists to discuss the music festival, claiming that they are misinformed.

Orthodox activists demonstrated near the festival site Thursday using biblical slogans warning

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Yazidis in Tbilisi call on the world to stop ISIS

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Yazidis in Tbilisi demonstrated against the brutal attacks on their people by ISIS in Iraq. (Photo: Georgian Union of Kurdish Youth.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–‘Stop ISIS’ was the slogan of a rally organized by the Yazidi community in Tbilisi as a show of solidarity with their besieged countrymen in Iraq, who suffer from ruthless savagery by the terrorists from Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

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Saakashvili charged with embezzlement of security force money

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USD 4,600 spent on two tailor made suits is one of the expenses former President Saakashvili must answer for. (Photo published by the president.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prosecutors in Georgia have brought further charges against former President Mikheil Saakashvili about embezzlement of public money.

The case describes embezzlement of about 8.8 million lari (USD 5.2 million) meant to be used for the protection

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A hundred houses flooded in Georgian village Kvishkheti

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Mudwater soiled a hundred houses in Kvishkheti, near Khashuri. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A hundred houses were flooded in a small Georgian village Tuesday night.

Due to heavy and long rain, villages were flooded in an area near Khashuri in the central parts of Georgia.

The flood hit hardest in Kvishkheti, which

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