Wednesday, December 17, 2025

New South Ossetian leader to seek a union with Russia

Newly elected leader Leonid Tibilov says he will continue the course towards a union between North and South Ossetia. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The newly elected leader of South Ossetia, a former local KGB head, promises to continue the course of closer relations with Russia, on a course towards uniting South and North Ossetia.

South Ossetia, or the Tskhinvali region, which was occupied

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Bust honoring Lech Kaczynski unveiled in Tbilisi

The bust honoring Lech Kaczynski is near a street also named after him. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – A bust of Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski was opened Tuesday here in Tbilisi.

The square where it is located is near the street named after him by Tbilisi City Council to honor him after his tragic death two years ago.

Zaal Samadashvili,

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Saakashvili defends reservist plan opposition labeled paramilitaries

Mikheil Saakashvili didn't mention Irakli Alasania by name, but said anyone who questions the idea behind the voluntary reservists are serving the enemy. Alasania said the newly created forces are set up in preparation for social unreast and a possible civil war after the election in October. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili Monday defended a new network of voluntary reservists which the main opposition bloc has warned are paramilitaries meant for starting a civil war.

Saakashvili, speaking at an event to mark 23 years since

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70% increase in Russian visitors to Georgia

Larsi, one of the ways Russians can enter Georgia without a visa and stay for up to 90 days, which 30 000 have done since Saakashvili announced the new rules February 28.

TBILISI, DFWatch – About 30 000 Russians have entered Georgia since visa restrictions were lifted February 28.

This is seventy per cent higher than the same period last year.

Before President Mikheil Saakashvili the liberalized visa rules for Russians, there was visa

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Saakashvili warns against the enemy within

Mikheil Saakashvili warned against the enemy within during a speech to soldiers at an April 9 commemmoration ceremony. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Speaking on April 9, officially known as The Day of National Unity, President Mikheil Saakashvili warned against his country’s enemy within.

Addressing soldiers in the yard of the parliament building on the important public holiday dedicated to unity,

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Georgia tests new domestically produced drone

Mikheil Saakashvili awarded medals to those who developed two armored vehicles and announced the test flight of a new drone tomorrow. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – President Mikheil Saakashvili announced the test flight in a speech April 9.

The date is symbolically significant as a peaceful demonstration for independence was attacked by Soviet troops here in Tbilisi in 1989.

Saakashvili made reference to

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April 9 remembered in Tbilisi, 23 years later

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Every year at 4 in the morning, people show up in front of parliament to commemmorate the events on April 9, 1989. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – April 9 is 21 year anniversary for the restoration of Georgia’s independence and 23 years since the Soviet Union used soldiers to disperse a peaceful protest in Tbilisi.

Georgian society, government and opposition remembered this day on Rustaveli

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Russian sanitary official concerned about Tbilisi laboratory

Russia's top sanitary inspector questions why Georgia needs to have American military researchers working at this newly opened laboratory near Tbilisi.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Russia’s chief sanitary inspector is concerned about the deployment of U.S. military laboratories at former Soviet medical institutions in Ukraine and Georgia.

According to NEWSru, a Russian news website owned by Gazprom, Gennady Onishchenko

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Museum in Stalin's hometown to focus on history of stalinism

Georgia's culture minister Nika Rurua today presents a new concept for the museum in Josef Stalin's hometown Gori. It is to focus on the history of stalinism.

TBILISI, DFWatch – The museum dedicated to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in his hometown of Gori in Georgia will change name to the Museum of Stalinism.

The Ministry of Culture is behind the idea that the museum will offer visitors a historical account of stalinism,

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Dzhioyeva forms opposition party in South Ossetia

Alla Dzhioyeva casting her vote November 27, 2011. She won, but a court cancelled the election. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – In South Ossetia, the opposition leader Alla Dzhioyeva has decided to set up a new political party.

April 7, an organizing committee for the new party called ‘Iriston – Freedom Square’ met at Dzhioyeva’s headquarters, Ekho Kavkaza reports.

“We

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