Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Croatian climber found 39 years after his death

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Croatian climber Nenad Culic, who died in 1974, has been found. (police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Rescue crew for the Georgian Interior Ministry’s emergency service have discovered a corpse of a Croatian climber who was lost in Caucasian mountains in 1974.

A group of Croatian rock climbers went on an expedition to Ushba in the Svaneti region

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Georgia lacks ambassador to 7 countries, Saakashvili hasn't signed

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President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia is without ambassador in seven countries, because the president has failed to sign their confirmation.

Foreign Affairs Minister Maia Panjikidze said on Saturday that President Mikheil Saakashvili still hasn’t signed the document to confirm

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Ambassador Yalowitz: Georgia is moving in the right direction

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Kenneth S. Yalowitz is former US Ambassador to Georgia.
DFW: Almost eleven months have passed after Georgia’s parliamentary election of October 2012 when the Georgian Dream coalition defeated United National Movement and the entire politics changed. It led to a mixed response from the US. Now almost a year after the elections, what

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Compromise about minaret will create new inter-religious council

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“Give us freedom of faith” says this poster. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Agreement was reached by Muslim and Christian leaders in Georgia on Thursday about what to do with a minaret which was removed from a mosque earlier in the week.

The Georgian Orthodox Church — the Patriarchate — and the organizations Muslims of

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New inquest into how Saakashvili regime trained Chechen rebels

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Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili Thursday announced a separate inquest into the Lapankuri border skirmish in August 2012, which claimed the lives of fourteen people.

Nanuashvili told Interpressnews a new inquest is necessary because more than a year has

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Victims families don't want Saakashvili to score points on them

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Khatuna Kortava says her nephew was a victim of the Saakashvili regime. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Saakashvili’s National Movement is meeting resistance in its efforts to play the crime card in the election campaign.

“No-one should be led by Saakashvili to try to score political points in my child’s name,” says Khatuna Kortava, aunt of Levan Kortava,

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