Sunday, March 22, 2026

Youth groups in Georgia plan several rallies on May 1

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Green Fist, one of the youth groups organizing rallies May 1. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Young people in Georgia plan to mark the International Worker’s Day, May 1, with rallies different places in the country.

A rally will be held at Tbilisi State University at 14:00 by Young Social-Democrats, Georgia’s Young Greens, Georgia’s

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Books brought to Georgia in WW2 to be returned to Germany

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Germany offers to restore books kept at Tbilisi State University. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has decided to return books currently at Tbilisi State University that were brought here from Germany during World War II.

Shalva Tadumadze, the government’s parliamentary secretary, explained

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One more Georgian detained at disputed border

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Ditsi, another village where people have been detained on the disputed border. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–One Georgian was detained Saturday by Russian soldiers near the border with South Ossetia. This is the fourth Georgian this happens to this week.

Merab Kapanadze, 70, from the village Tseronisi, was detained while tending to his cattle

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Three Georgians detained on South Ossetia border

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The detainees are believed to be held in a Tskhinvali prison. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers have detained three Georgian citizens in the village Khurvaleti for violating the border with South Ossetia.

All three detainees – Rusudan Khuroshvili, Zeinab Kharkheli and Lali Khuroshvili – were taken to South Ossetia.

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Steinmeier and Fabius visiting Georgia April 23-24

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French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The foreign ministers of Germany and France will visit Georgia on April 23-24.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and France’s Laurent Fabius were originally to have visited Georgia on March 3, but they both postponed due to events in Ukraine.

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Georgian president: No preparations made for Putin meeting

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Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili says the proposal by Russia’s Vladimir Putin for a meeting has had no actual follow-up or preparations.

At the opening of the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Russian president said that there is a possibility

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