Monday, January 19, 2026

Saakashvili wanted at home, party office sprayed with red paint

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Demonstrators called on former President Saakashvili to come home and answer questions about ten criminal cases. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Demonstrators in Georgia Tuesday demanded that former President Mikheil Saakashvili returns to his home country and answers questions from prosecutors.

Two people were detained for throwing red paint at party symbols outside the National Movement

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Strike in Kazreti called off after agreement with RMG Gold

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Locals demonstrating in Kazreti in February, 2014. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A protest in the Georgian village Kazreti, where people protested the treatments of workers in the gold mines, ended on Monday.

RMG Gold, the company which owns the mines in Kazreti, reached agreement with the demonstrators, who protest against

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Georgian anti-gay activists warn of tougher line

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May 17, 2013, thousands of anti-gay activists disrupted a small peaceful demonstration in Tbilisi to mark the international day against homophobia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Anti-gay activists and clerics want to be more tough toward LGBT rights activists if the latter demonstrate for their rights on May 17, on the one-year anniversary of a violent attacks on them organized by Orthodox priests.

Pressed with multiple

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Supporters and opponents of NATO clash in Tbilisi

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A group advocating the Russian-led Eurasian Union planned to demonstrate against NATO, but were interrupted by an angry crowd. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Three people were detained in Tbilisi on Monday as supporters and opponents of NATO clashed outside the Cinema House.

Tension was already high during the screening of a 30 minutes long film about NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia

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17% increase in Georgia's foreign trade Jan-Feb confirmed

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Georgia’s foreign trade was 17% higher in the two first months of 2014, compared to 2013, but most of the trade is import. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover January-February, 2014, was USD 1 567 million. This is a 17 percent increase, compared to the same period last year.

Precise figures from Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat, show that export accounted

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Two detainees in Zhvania case placed in pre-trial detention

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Tbilisi City Court. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two men detained for negligence in connection with the death of former Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania were Sunday placed in pre-trial detention by Tbilisi City Court.

Levan Chachua, who participated in the autopsy on Zhvania’s body in 2005, and Mikheil

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West warns Georgia against prosecuting Saakashvili

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Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves warns that Georgia’s EU treaty may be stalled if the investigation of former officials continues. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Western partners are threatening that prosecuting former President Saakashvili may jeopardize an EU treaty and membership in NATO.

Georgia has for years sought closer integration with the European Union and membership in NATO. In June,

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Georgian soldiers in NATO-Ukraine military exercise

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Ukrainian soldiers in the joint NATO exercise Saber Guardian, which was launched Friday in Bulgaria. (Photo by Brooks Fletcher/US Army.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian soldiers are participating in a two-week joint NATO-Ukraine military exercise in eastern Bulgaria, 400 km from Crimea.

The exercise, which started Friday. is called Saber Guardian and has been planned for about a year.

It involves 700

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Saakashvili called in for questioning in numerous cases

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May become a wanted person. Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addressing the crowd at Independence Square in Kiev, December 2013. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s former President Mikheil Saakashvili will be declared a wanted person if he doesn’t come and answer questions in a long list of criminal cases.

Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili said this today.

“If he does not come, he will be declared

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SO field meeting highlights border problems and helicopter overflight

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Problems created by new border fences was brought up again at the regular field meeting between the parties in the 2008 war. (EUMM.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The parties in the 2008 war met again on Friday for a field meeting in a tent in Ergneti, a village on the border with South Ossetia.

These field meetings are formally called Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism (IPRM) and hosted by the EU’s

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