Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Bakradze wins primary in Kakheti

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Davit Bakradze, one of the National Movement’s four candidates for president. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Davit Bakradze, parliamentary leader of the National Movement, defended his frontrunner status Sunday with a third primary election win.

566 UNM delegates met in Telavi, a town in the eastern Kakheti region, to listen to a debate between Davit

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UNM lawmaker and two others released on bail in property scandal

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Rusudan Kervalishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Rusudan Kervalishvili, a former lawmaker for the National Movement party, and her sister Maya Rcheulishvili, who are accused of running a ponzi scheme through a construction company they founded, have been released on USD 150 000 bail each.

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Saakashvili: Government is worsening relations with EU

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Tamar Beruchashvili, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Saakashvili accuses the government of worsening relations with the EU and claims that the signing of an association agreement with the EU has been removed from the schedule of the Vilnius summit.

Tamar Beruchashvili, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister,

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Füle hopeful about Georgia getting association agreement

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EU Commissioner Štefan Füle (left) and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–EU Commissioner Štefan Füle is hopeful about Georgia’s chances of signing an association agreement with the EU at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November.

Füle is visiting Georgia and today met with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili

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Poll shows little support for LGBT cause in Georgia

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Counter-activist with poster saying “These are the sins of Sodom and Gomorra”. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A new opinion poll shows that 79 percent of Georgians do not support the anti-homophobia demonstration on May 17, 2013, which was disrupted by radical Christian clerics and their followers, resulting in almost 30 people being injured.

52 percent think

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Georgia has relocated Afghanistan soldiers

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Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Irakli Alasania says Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan have relocated to a safer place after the last attack on one of their bases, which caused the death of seven soldiers.

However, the investigation into the Taliban threat video,

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