Friday, April 3, 2026

Street justice: brother of ex-official hospitalized in Tbilisi

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Davit Kodua, brother of wanted ex-official Erekle Kodua, was brutally beaten in Tbilisi Saturday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The brother of a wanted former official in the Saakashvili regime was brutally beaten in Tbilisi on Saturday.

The victim of the attack was Davit Kodua, brother of Erekle Kodua, a former top police official who is currently outside the country and internationally

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Georgian PM claims campaigners undermining government

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Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili claims a campaign to reign in illegal surveillance is an attempt to undermine the government. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili says demands by influential NGOs to refine legislation to prevent illegal wiretapping is an attack against the government.

After the Saakashvili regime lost power in Georgia, several Tbilisi-based

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Georgia passes modified anti-discrimination bill

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Priests organized several demonstrations against the bill, here outside parliament in Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Lawmakers in Georgia on Thursday passed an anti-discrimination bill after being pressured from the European Union. The bill was slightly modified after criticism from the Orthodox Church.

The Georgian Orthodoc Church was opposed to the bill because

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Georgian minister asks NATO for air defenses

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US Vice President Joe Biden and Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Defense Minister Irakli Alasania asks NATO to install air defenses and other military systems in Georgia.

He made the call in a speech at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based think tank, on Wednesday.

“Now the West has to seize the

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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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Orthodox Church against EU in Georgian parliament

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Priests demonstrated outside parliament Tuesday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Clerics in Georgia don’t want a Europe where ‘homosexuality is legalized,’ and call on parliament to not pass an anti-discrimination law required for the signing of an association agreement with the EU.

The Georgian parliament has two more

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Large weapons collection discovered in Tbilisi

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Military type weapons including anti-tank missiles were voluntarily handed over to the police by a 44 year old Georgian man. (Police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian citizen has voluntarily handed over a large collection of military type weapons to the police department in Tbilisi.

The impressive weapons collection included an RPG-26 anti-tank grenade launcher, four prefabricated PG-9

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