Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Tottenham plays against Dinamo Tbilisi Thursday

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Tottenham players training in Tbilisi before Thursday’s match. (Tottenham Hotspur website.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Dinamo Tbilisi plays against Tottenham Hotspur at 20:00 today at Dinamo stadium in Tbilisi.

The London team arrived in Georgia on Tuesday and left the airport without comment. Practicing matches were held at Dinamo stadium.

The match is part of the

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Batumi Summer Set Festival kicks off Thursday

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Batumi is getting ready for three days of electronic music. (Festival handout photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s sea resort Batumi is hosting a three-day summer festival of electronic music starting Thursday.

Batumi Summer Set Festival runs from August 22 to 24 and will host many well-known names in the genre.

Among the headliners are Denmark’s

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Saakashvili wants to promote wine industry after end of term

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President Mikheil Saakashvili is feeling bored sitting in his office. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili plans to open an education center for viticulture, wine-making and vine care in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region, where he owns a house and vineyards.

Speaking in front of journalists at his palace in Tbilisi Wednesday,

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Witness in Girgvliani case suspended as priest

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Mikael Botkoveli, head of the press office at the Patriarchate. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Church, the Patriarchate, has suspended a priest who recently claimed that the Prosecutor’s Office pressured him to give testimony against former Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia.

Mikael Botkoveli, head of the press office at

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Queue outside president's palace to get criminal records cleared

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Ex-prisoners are queueing outside the presidential palace after Saakashvili promised to clear their records. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former prisoners and people on probation crowded outside President Mikheil Saakashvili’s palace in Tbilisi after he offered to pardon them and clear their criminal record.

The president said August 19 that people who are probationers or have

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Georgia's commission to prevent election fraud holds first session

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Minister of Justice, Thea Tsulukiani. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s interagency commission for free and fair elections on Monday held its first session. It was held under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice.

The commission was created ahead of last year’s parliamentary election to prevent

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