Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Saakashvili commits to having extra election observers

The Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili is hopefully looking forward to NATO's summit in Chicago in May, inviting extra election observers which might improve his country's democratic credentials. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president calls on the international community to send ultra long-term election observers to his country before the parliamentary elections in October.

Rights groups and part of the opposition have been appealing to the world to send

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Georgian official warns of new war with Russia

The Russian exercise Kavkaz 2012 will also include paratroopers, here seen in a parade in 2005.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A top Georgian security official warns that there could be another war with Russia.

Russia and Georgia fought a brief war in August 2008 over two breakaway republics. Now the secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council warns that an

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Mobile company in Georgia “recognizes” Abkhazia as a country

Beeline's map of the world, showing Abkhazia as a country.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A Russian mobile operator in Georgia portrays Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia as an independent country on its website.

It’s Beeline, which is owned by the Russian mobile company VimpelCom, which now suggests to readers of its website

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Borisov to Saakashvili: Bulgaria backs Georgia's EU approach

Bulgaria's prime minister, Boyko Borisov (far right), met Georgia's president Mikheil Saakashvili (center) at the presidential residence in Tbilisi Sunday.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Bulgaria expresses its full support for Georgia’s integration process towards NATO and the EU.

Boyko Borisov, Bulgarian Prime Minister, said this Sunday during a meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.

Specifically Borisov said his

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