Monday, January 12, 2026

Georgia's PM Ivanishvili met Lithuania's president

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Bidzina Ivanishvili (left), Prime Minister of Georgia, and Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania. (Ivanishvili Facebook page.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili on Thursday met President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė at the president’s palace.

Grybauskaitė and Ivanishvili discussed bilateral relations and views on how to strengthen them.

The Georgian

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Protest camp outside town hall in Ozurgeti

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Georgian Dream supporters demand the Georgian Dream gamgebeli’s resignation, because he supported a National Movement candidate for head of the town council. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For more than three weeks, activists and supporters of the Georgian Dream coalition have been protesting in front of town hall in Ozurgeti in the western Guria region of Georgia, against the acting head of the municipality.

The activists have set up

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Georgian patriarch to visit Russia July 23-30

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Patriarch Ilia II during his last visit to Russia earlier this year. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Patriarch will visit Russia for the 1025th epiphany anniversary.

Events for the anniversary will be held in Moscow, Kyiv and Minsk.

Patriarch Ilia II will visit all three cities accompanied by a Georgian delegation July 23-30.

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Ivanishvili government tries to clean up campaigning rules

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Zakaria Kutsnashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A new amendment to the election code will require top officials to resign two days after they are registered as candidates in the presidential election.

The new regulations will apply to the prime minister, ministers of autonomous republics

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Five more Georgians detained at de facto border

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Earlier this year the de facto border was moved 300 m and reinforced with razor wire in Ditsi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian border guards have detained five more Georgian citizens for crossing the de facto border near the breakaway region South Ossetia.

A journalist working for Interpressnews reports that three Georgians were detained in the village Akhalubani

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Margvelashvili picks replacement ahead of presidential run

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Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili (left), and his deputy Tamar Sanikidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili has picked his own replacement, as he prepares for the race to be Georgia’s next president.

The Georgian Dream coalition chose Margvelashvili as its candidate in the upcoming election, and although Georgian

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