Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Margvelashvili picks replacement ahead of presidential run

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Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili (left), and his deputy Tamar Sanikidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Minister of Education Giorgi Margvelashvili has picked his own replacement, as he prepares for the race to be Georgia’s next president.

The Georgian Dream coalition chose Margvelashvili as its candidate in the upcoming election, and although Georgian

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Ivanishvili will visit Lithuania and Poland July 18-19

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Prime Minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili will visit Lithuania and Poland July 18-19.

Davit Zalkaliani, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, said on Monday’s briefing that Georgia sees visit to Lithuania to be important as it has recently taken

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Štefan Füle to visit Georgia July 11-12

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Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, will visit Georgia July 11-12.

Davit Jalaghania, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, said at a briefing Monday that the visit is planned to be held in Batumi, a city

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Hunger strike over in Georgian women's prison

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Eka Beselia, chair of the parliamentary committee on human rights. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The hunger strike at Rustavi women’s prison is over. Prisoners of No 5 prison facility in Rustavi, a town 20 km south of the capital, had been on hunger strike for two days demanding to get their sentences reduced.

Wednesday, Eka Beselia, chair

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