Sunday, May 31, 2026

One person found dead after landslide in Georgia

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(Photo published by Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–One person has been found dead after the landslide catastrophe in Georgia on Thursday.

The body was found on the bank of the river Tergi near the village Larsi on the Russian side of the border.

According to head of Kazbegi municipality Givi

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New catastrophic landslide hits Georgia's Dariali Valley, two missing

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Thursday’s landslide in Dariali Valley caused more material damage than the one on May 17, 2014. (Photo published by Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Three months after a landslide disaster in a Georgian valley near the Russian border, another landslide struck Thursday, severing the only road across the Caucasus mountain range and cutting gas supply to Armenia. Two people are missing.

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KaZantip opens as conservatives protest

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Conservatives protested outside the old parliament building in Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Conservative groups continued protesting against KaZantip Wednesday as the music festival opened at 9 pm in the evening.

Those opposed to the festival are radical Orthodox Christians and small opposition parties.

On Wednesday one such group held a protest

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Georgian PM visits Armenia August 21-22

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Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili will visit Armenia on August 21-22.

After meeting his Armenian colleague, Gharibashvili and the rest of the Georgian delegation will meet with Armenian government representatives.

Prime Minister Hovik

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Saakashvili returns clothes after embezzlement charge

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Police took action as clothes belonging to former President Saakashvili were delivered at the government office. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Tuesday returned clothes to the government in Georgia, after being charged with inappropriate spending while in office.

A few days ago, the Prosecutor’s Office charged Saakashvili with

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Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan strengthen energy transport security

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Defense ministers from three countries: Georgia’s Irakli Alasania, Azerbaijan’s Zakir Hasanov and Turkey’s İsmet Yılmaz. (Photo by Georgia’s Defense Ministry.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The defense ministers of Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan met Tuesday in the Azerbaijani enclave Nakhchivan, a landlocked region on the border between Armenia and Iran.

This is the first time defense ministers from the three countries hold a trilateral

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Government wants to reduce president's power as commander in chief

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili with Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan in March, 2014. (Photo by Defense Ministry.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia wants to limit the power of the president as commander in chief.

The draft bill will take away the president’s power to approve the regulation of the Joint Staff, and the head of the Joint Staff will become subordinate

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Georgian president rejects ex-interior minister's citizenship application

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Kakha Targamadze was Georgian interior minister in the late 1990s. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili has rejected former Interior Minister Kakha Targamadze’s application for Georgian citizenship.

The decision follows a call by the National Movement to not approve the application by the controversial

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