Sunday, July 5, 2026

Georgia's foreign trade sees sharp drop

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Writing on Facebook. Vano Merabishvili would be “in emergency mode” if he had still been prime minister. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s foreign trade turnover experienced a sharp downward trend at the end of 2012, according to precise data from Georgian National Statistics Department, GeoStat.

Although it is mostly the month of December which shows an alarming tendency,

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Minibus strike stepped up after negotiations fail

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The minibus strike is stepped up as negotiations fail. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Almost no yellow minibuses are to be seen in the capital as the driver’s strike continues.

Sunday morning, a rally was held at one of the largest minibus garages, and drivers negotiated with Tbilisi Minibus, the company they work for, without

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Georgian patriarch visits historic cemetery in Moscow

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Georgian Patriarch Ilia II on Friday visited All Saints Church in Moscow. (Photo: Salome Tsertsvadze and Ekaterina Tkachenko.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Patriarch Ilia II Friday visited the All Saints Church in Sokol, in northern Moscow.

The church is the site of a now defunct graveyard where there are buried many well-known Georgians and royals. There has been construction work in

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Saakashvili's party ceases work in constitutional commission

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The National Movement’s Giorgi Tevdoradze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — President Mikheil Saakashvili’s party has ceased work in the commission organizing public hearings about proposed constitutional changes.

The National Movement party’s representatives say the reason is that they dislike statements made by the

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A third of minibus drivers in Tbilisi on strike

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600 drivers of minibuses (“marshrutkas”) in Tbilisi are on strike against a new license system. (DF Watch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — About 600 minibus drivers went on strike in Tbilisi Friday, causing crowding on buses and in the metro.

The strike has the support of about 30 % of all minibus drivers in the capital. They are protesting against a new license system which has left

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