Wednesday, April 29, 2026

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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Landslides in Georgia's Guria region forced families to flee

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Landslides have been accelerated by the heavy rain, says Valerian Chitashvili, governor of Guria. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Several families have been forced from their homes in Ozurgeti, in Georgia’s western Guria region, due to a landslide.

Valerian Chitashvili, governor of Guria, told journalists that two days of heavy rains in the region accelerated the landslides

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