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Ukrainians stranded at Russia-Georgia border launch hunger strike

TBILISI, August 6 – Five Ukrainian nationals who are stranded at the Dariali border crossing have launched a hunger strike, claiming they were denied entry and held in inhumane conditions by Georgian border guards. One of the group, Sergei Larko, told Ekho kavkaza that he has been stuck at the crossing for nearly a month, … Read more

Georgia’s government wins arbitration case over Black Sea port project

TBILISI, July 31 – The Georgian government has scored a major victory in its long-running Anaklia deep-sea port dispute, as the it wins an arbitration case, confirming it was in its right to terminate the project. The ruling by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes in Washington dismissed claims filed by Bob Meijer … Read more

EU launches new initiative to counter Russia in the Black Sea region

TBILISI, DFWatch-–The European Commission today announced its new Black Sea Strategy. The plan envisages enhanced cooperation among littoral states, including members Romania and Bulgaria, and non-members Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. The initiative pledges €1.7 billion in funding for infrastructure, security, and other projects. Maritime Security Hub: Aims to protect infrastructure, de-mine waters, and address environmental … Read more

Who’s the Georgian citizen that Putin talked about in an interview with Tucker Carlson, without mentioning his name

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested his country might exchange American journalist Evan Gershkovich for a Russian assassin jailed in Germany.  Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in a two hour long interview, the Russian leader alluded to holding negotiations about the exchange of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is … Read more

“Russian-Georgian Business Council” proposes to open road through occupied Tskhinvali

TBILISI, DFWatch – At the meeting of the “Russia-Georgia Business Council” in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia’s republic of North Ossetia, the issue of opening a road connecting Russia and Georgia through occupied South Ossetia was discussed on Tuesday, according to the information  spread by the news website Sova News based on the telegram channel “Georgian … Read more

Pashinyan, Aliyev to sign peace deal in Tbilisi: Armenian media

A peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed in Tbilisi by the end of November or the beginning of December, and preparatory work in this regard is already actively underway in Georgia, Armenian news website Graparak reports based on its own sources. The document, which is planned to be signed in Georgia, implies … Read more

Russian military start getting grip on border with Georgia to prevent conscripts’ exodus

On the border with Georgia, which has becomes a point of exodus for those Russian men who want to avoid conscription, Russia opens a military commissariat presence. According to the eyewitnesses from the place, at this stage the conscripts are not detained, nor are they prevented from crossing border. The officers hand over them so … Read more

FSB fears breaching border with Georgia by crowd fleeing mobilization, sends armored vehicle, troops

The war mobilization announced by Vladimir Putin has worsened the situation on the Russian-Georgian border to such an extent that the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB), which is responsible for border control, sent Monday an armored personnel carrier there to prevent a forceful breach of the border at Larsi by the crowd … Read more

Russian-backed enclave plans referendum about naming itself after medieval tribe

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Leonid Tibilov, the de facto President of the enclave Republic of South Ossetia. (RES.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian-backed separatists who have ruled a region of Georgia since the early 1990s plan to name their self-declared republic after a nomadic tribe that conquered swaths of Europe and North Africa in the Middle Ages.

If the 50,000 population approves

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