Thursday, September 17, 2026

Georgian ex-President Saakashvili quits as governor of Odessa

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Saakashvili spoke of the reasons for his resignation at a press conference in Odessa.

TBILISI, DFWatch–The exiled former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili announced on Monday that he is leaving as governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region, a position he has held since May 2015.

During a press conference broadcast on his Facebook page,

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Georgian lari drops again, approaching important benchmark

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Nodar Khaduri, Minister of Finance, insists ‘this is really a temporary decline.’

TBILISI, DFWatch–The opposition in Georgia is blaming the government of impoverishing the country after the lari dropped in value again and is approaching a ‘psychological’ benchmark rate of 2.50 against the US dollar.

Its official rate against USD was set as 2.4195

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