Friday, January 2, 2026

Georgia to consider legal recognition of church weddings

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Jvristsera, church weddings, are not legally recognized in today’s Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia may consider granting legal status to weddings conducted by the church.

This issue will be studied in the near future by the commission which handles relations between the state and the Orthodox Church.

Today, a marriage

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Saakashvili says government is partly Russian-friendly

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The Ivanishvili government is ‘partly friendly towards Russia’, President Mikheil Saakashvili claimed at a rally of his party, the National Movement, on Friday. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In a speech Friday, President Mikheil Saakashvili accused the Georgian government of being ‘partly friendly towards Russia’.

He was speaking at a rally of his party, the United National Movement, in Tbilisi in order to show off popular support

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Yushchenko offers to pay for hot bath massage

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Viktor Yushchenko, former president of Ukraine, wants to pay back USD 400 for a hot bath that was paid for by the state during Saakashvili’s government. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Viktor Yushchenko, the former president of Ukraine, has jumped into a political squabble in Georgia by saying he is willing to pay back USD 400 he was given for a visit to one of Tbilisi’s hot baths.

The ex-president says through his spokesperson

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Another store of unused emergency supplies found in Georgia

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The emergency aid found in Gori last month. (Ministry of Refugees.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–For the third time the Refugee Ministry has discovered a warehouse where there has been kept products and household items meant to be distributed to the refugees from the Russia-Georgia war in 2008, but instead has been locked away all this time.

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Saakashvili and Ivanishvili exchanging corruption accusations

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President Mikheil Saakashvili (right) during a visit by Russian journalist Ksenia Sokolova (left) in October, 2010. The president’s protection service, the SSPS, covered her stay with USD 6 000 and in addition paid for a USD 1 800 necklace for her.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two days before a planned rally by President Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement, the ruling Georgian Dream coalition accuses it of embezzlement of state money.

But the UNM claims the government is presenting

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