Sunday, July 5, 2026

Interior minister found his own phone had been tapped

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Interior Minister Irakli Gharibashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian interior minister says he has discovered audio files of all his phone calls for a whole year, secretly recorded and stored on computer disk.

Irakli Gharibashvili was Tuesday invited to the TV channel Rustavi 2 to sum up the government’s

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Ivanishvili answers questions about alleged nepotism

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili Tuesday answered questions about alleged nepotism in his government.

He said he doesn’t agree that people should get positions through being familiar with others, and that competition is the best way to get good

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Saakashvili's party compares Ivanishvili with Chavez and Castro

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The opposition National Movement party in Georgia compares Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro after statements he made at a press conference Tuesday.

Ivanishvili was summing up his first hundred days of being in

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