Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Georgia aims to maintain 10% share of Gazprom natural gas transit

Anti-Gazprom Demonstration in Tbilisi March, 2016 (DFWatch)
Anti-Gazprom demonstration in Tbilisi in March, 2016. (DFWatch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia has offered Gazprom to continue the transit of natural gas to Armenia. under the same conditions as before.

The details of the offers are not known, but the negotiations between the Georgian government and Gazprom will finish

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Ukraine fires deputy chief prosecutor, a Georgian

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(Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Davit Sakvarelidze, a former Georgian official, has been fired as deputy chief prosecutor of Ukraine.

He was fired for violating the ethics of a prosecutor, and for interfering in the business of another prosecutor, according to the the website

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Over 1,400 minors became parents in Georgia last year

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A girl participates in a performance to protest early marriages in November, 2015 (DFWatch)

TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 1,440 minors became parents in 2015 and there were registered 611 marriages of people from 16 to 18 years, according to a report published Monday by Georgia’s ombudsman.

In 2014, there were registered 665 marriages involving minors.

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Public hearing process begins for constitutional ban on same-sex marriage

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Vice Speaker Manana Kobakhidze, one of the parliamentarians behind the bill. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A parliamentary commission has launched a public debate about a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

The first meeting was held on Friday in Telavi, in the eastern Kakheti

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