Friday, December 5, 2025

Police beat villagers for Norwegian hydro power in Georgia

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Seven hundred villagers clashed with two hundred police in Ghurta. (Video still from Adjara TV’s report.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Police in Georgia Saturday broke up a protest in a village where a Norwegian company wants to build a hydro power plant.

About two hundred policemen were mobilized to break through a road block put up by villagers in Ghurta, in the south western Adjara

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Energy minister attacks ombudsman over hydro power dam

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Energy Minister Kakhi Kaladze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Energy Minister Friday lashed out against the public defender and accused him of lying about not wanting to meet the population in a mountain valley poised to be flooded by a giantic hydro power dam.

The Khudoni hydro power project will

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Villagers block road to stop hydro power dam

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People from Khaishi on Wednesday blocked a road to prevent surveying work for the gigantic Khudoni hydro power dam. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–People from the Svaneti mountain village Khaishi Wednesday demonstrated against the construction of a gigantic hydro power dam that will wipe out their community.

Demonstrators blocked the road to Jvari-Mestia with stones to interrupt land surveying

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1000 people demonstrated to save Vake Park in Tbilisi

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Around a thousand people gathered in Tbilisi’s Vake Park Sunday to show their resistance to a planned new hotel. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Around a thousand people showed up in Vake Park in Tbilisi Sunday to protest against the construction of a new hotel.

The event, which was planned on Facebook, brought together people, families, some with dogs or carrying balloons, enjoying snacks

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Rally against planned new hotel in Vake Park, Tbilisi

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Environmentalists say it’s against the law to build a new hotel in a recreational zone, like Vake Park. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–People Friday demonstrated in front of Tbilisi City Hall against a private company’s plans to build a new hotel inside the publicly owned Vake Park in the capital.

Behind the project is Tiflis Development Company, and the hotel is planned at the location

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Power cuts continue in Georgia ten days after snowfall

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People demonstrated in Batumi last Friday against a lack of attention from authorities. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Ten days after snow fell in the eastern Adjara region of Georgia, frustration is growing as there are still problems with supply of electricity, natural gas and water.

December 13, people demonstrated in Batumi against what they feel is a lack of

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Georgia creates crisis management centers

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Snow storms in winter and flooding in summer have knocked out infrastructure in Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The government in Georgia on Sunday created two new bodies to address urgent problems.

The first one is a temporary center for crisis management to deal with the problems caused by bad weather and earthquakes.

The second state body is a center to

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86 schools closed in Georgia due to snow

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Snow is creating problems many places in Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–86 schools in Georgia are closed due to bad weather, according to the Education Ministry.

69 of them is in the Adjara region – Keda, Shuakhevi and Khelvachauri. Four schools are closed in Guria, six in Imereti, four in Svaneti, one school in Kakheti, one in

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