Monday, December 29, 2025

Georgian Public Broadcaster director leaves

Gia Chanturia Friday resigned as director of Georgian Public Broadcaster. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — General Director of Georgia’s Public Broadcaster (GPB) Gia Chanturia has resigned. He handed in his resignation letter to the GPB’s supervisory board, which approved it today at a special session.

Late Thursday night, there were unconfirmed

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73 fired Telasi workers get their jobs back

Workers at Telasi were among the first in a wave of strikes and labor protests in the wake of the October 1, 2012 election. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The power company Telasi has brought back 73 out of 107 employees who were fired, according to the company’s director.

Workers at Telasi, which distributes electricity in Tbilisi, have been out in the streets for two months. They were among the

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Saakashvili confidente financed Russian revolutionairies

Russian police presented evidence that Saakashvili loyalist Givi Targamadze financed leftist revolt in Russia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Russian police have published new evidence which seems to strengthen the case that Georgian politicians tried to foment social unrest in Russia.

The evidence relates to the connections between the Russian opposition and the Georgian

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Georgia and Russia plan rare meeting Friday

Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Grigory Karasin will represent Russia at tomorrow's meeting in Geneva. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The two countries fought a brief war in August 2008. Tomorrow they will meet face to face for the first time.

The meeting will take place on neutral ground in Geneva, Switzerland, on the sidelines of periodic talks between the sides in that war.

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U.S. monitoring how Ivanishvili and Saakashvili cooperate

Thomas O. Melia, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The U.S. is closely monitoring the transition of power from President Saakashvili’s National Movement to Prime Minister Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition.

Also subject to scrutiny is how well the two political blocs are working together,

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Saakashvili loses one of his jets

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili must hand over one of his two business jets; a Gulfstream V. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili has lost one of his two business jets. The new government has decided not to allow the president to use it anymore.

Alexandre Burchuladze, Deputy Defense Minister said in an interview with Rustavi 2 that the reason

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