Thursday, January 1, 2026

Most visitors to Georgia come from neighboring countries

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Graph showing number of visitors to Georgia 2006-2013. (Ministry of Internal Affairs.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The majority of foreign visitors to Georgia in 2013 came from Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia, Ukraine and Iran.

As there is no mechanism to categorize people crossing the border of the country, the government provides general information about

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Bacho Akhalaia moved back to scandalous prison

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Bacho Akhalaia on the day of his detention, November 7, 2012. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former interior minister and close Saakashvili ally Bacho Akhalaia has been moved from a relatively privileged facility to Prison No 8 in north Tbilisi, notorious for numerous cases of torture and death.

Akhalaia, who has been in detention since

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