Sunday, March 8, 2026

Russia copied Georgian police reform, says Saakashvili

Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili celebrating his police reforms May 6, 2012, at the central square in Gori. (Photo: Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The Georgian president claims Russia tried to copy the Georgian police reforms, but could not get them to work.

Sunday, Saakashvili marked a recently created national holiday called Police Day, held on the same day as St George’s Day, May 6,

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Uncertain stalemate between EU and Abkhazia

Tyszkiewicz (center) during an incident prevention meeting in Dvani, South Ossetia, December 21, 2011, flanked by South Ossetian negotiator Merab Chigoev (left), and Georgian negotiator, Shota Utiashvili (right), who is head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Analysis Department. (EUMM.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The crisis in the EU’s dealings with a disputed region that broke away from Georgia and is heavily militarized by Russia continues as neither side is willing to give in.

Abkhazia said before the weekend that it is not going to change its position. The

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Georgian Party has broken off relations with Kitsmarishvili

Erosi Kitsmarishvili is no longer representing Georgian Party, an opposition party established two years ago which disintegrated with the advent of Bidzina Ivanishvili on the political scene.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian Party has broken off relations with Erosi Kitsmarisvhili, a well known politician and former manager of Maestro TV.

The party has released a statement saying that for four months, the Georgian party has not had any relations with him, and

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Georgia's prison minister lied to get rid of protesters

Prison Minister Khatuna Kalmakhelidze displayed her deep hostility towards free media Friday.

TBILISI, DFWatch – A spokesperson for the prison minister in Georgia Friday lied about her whereabouts to divert a crowd of protesters who were angry over a dead prisoner.

A spokeswoman for prison minister Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, claimed that she was not in Tbilisi,

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How one man tried to save Moscow cemetery

Possbly bits of a tombstone dug up during the construction of a new brick building on top of the cemetery. (Photo: Georgiy Ramazashvili.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgiy Ramazashvili, a Moscow-based archival researcher, in July 2011 discovered that there was new construction work on a historic cemetery in Moscow where many Georgian royals, nobles and historic persons are buried. After Georgian and Russian media

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