Sunday, January 18, 2026

Parliament again fails to fill Public Broadcaster board

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Georgian Public Broadcaster is still without a functioning supervisory board. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia has again failed to approve new board members for the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB). Groups claim this shows there is a lack of will to free the broadcaster from political influence.

January 23, parliament approved only one

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NATO chief: Georgia has made progress

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Then Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (left) and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Brussels Nov. 14, 2012. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen writes in his latest annual report that Georgia has made good progress in implementing the reforms required to meet its standards.

Rasmussen writes in his 2013 report, which was published on Monday, that NATO

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Georgian government presents bill about citizenship of newborns

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A newborn at the Georgian Church’s maternity ward in March 2011. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia proposes to automatically give Georgian citizenship to a child who was born through in vitro fertilization if none of the parents’s home countries recognize it as its citizen.

The Ministry of Justice explains that the new

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Margvelashili planning his first annual address to parliament

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President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili is in consultations with the speaker of parliament about the date of his annual address to parliament.

The Georgian constitution says that the president must visit parliament once a year and present a report about

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Iraqi medical student attacked in Kutaisi

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The victim, a medical student from Iraq, was taken to a hospital in Kutaisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A student from Iraq was beaten in the Georgian city Kutaisi on Saturday. Local media writes that he was attack because of his origins.

The student was brought to the hospital and will have to remain there for several more days.

Unknown assailants

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Chechen refugees feel harassed by Georgian counterintelligence

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Saikhan Muzayev. (Georgian Public Broadcaster.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Some of the Chechens in Pankisi Gorge close to the Russian border say they are blackmailed and harassed by Georgian counterintelligence.

Saikhan Muzayev, a former Russian and Arabic translator for the Refugee Ministry, said at a press

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