Sunday, January 11, 2026

200 locals gathered to prevent Friday prayers

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200 locals in Samtatskharo gathered outside the prayer house, determined to prevent Friday prayers. (Georgian Public Broadcaster.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday prayers were disrupted by locals yesterday in a village in eastern Georgia.

About 200 locals had gathered in the village Samtatskharo in the Kakheti region in order to prevent Muslims from praying in a house that has been purchased for this

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Georgia commemmorated fallen soldiers

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Defense Minister Irakli Alasania visiting one of the wounded soldiers. (Ministry of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Friday, Georgia commemorated the seven soldiers who died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan the day before.

The soldiers were serving in the 42nd infantry brigade at Base Lezernik in Helmand Province.

“We took the bodies of our seven heroes

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Diplomats in Georgia visit border area

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Razor wire like this is being put up through villages on the de facto border. (Radio Liberty.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Interior Ministry in Georgia Friday organized a trip for a few dozen foreign diplomats to villages close to the Russian-controlled breakaway region South Ossetia, where Russian border guards last week moved the border 300 meters into

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Russia demands that Georgia abandons law on territories

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Gregory Karasin, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Russia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russia maintains its demand that Georgia must do away with its law on the occupied territories, which makes it a crime for people to visit the breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia without permission from official Tbilisi.

Gregory Karasin,

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Seven Georgian soldiers die in Afghanistan suicide bombing

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Irakli Dzneladze (center), Head of Georgia’s Joint Staff. (Ministry of Defense.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Seven Georgian soldiers died in a suicide attack in Afghanistan Thursday.

President Mikheil Saakashvili has called for a national day of mourning on June 7 and asked that all the flags be lowered.

The Ministry of Defense on Thursday informed that

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Saakashvili rallies people to resist Russia

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President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili Wednesday described the moving and fortifying of a de facto border between Georgian- and Russian-controlled territory in place since the war in 2008, as a call for everybody to resist Russian occupation.

“This session

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Abashidze mentioned border issue at direct talks with Russia

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Zurab Abashidze is the Georgian Prime Minister’s Representative for Relations with Russia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The small-scale careful dialogue between Georgia and Russia continued in Prague Wednesday as Zurab Abashidze and Gregory Karasin met to sum up the results of six month of talks.

Abashidze, who was specially appointed by Prime Minister Bidzina

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