Sunday, January 18, 2026

Stefan Fule to visit Georgia March 3-4

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EU Commissioner Stefan Fule (right) during a previous meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili in Brussels February 3, 2014. (Government photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–EU Commissioner Stefan Fule is planning a visit to Georgia next Monday and Tuesday.

According to his press office, the Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy will meet with President Giorgi Margvelashvili, Prime Minister

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Georgian Lawyer's Association chair attacked by rebel members

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Zaza Khatiashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgian Lawyer’s Association, some of the members have started procedures to dismiss their chairman.

The rebel members claim the reason is that Zaza Khatiashvili is a supporter of the former ruling party, the National Movement, and also that he

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France refuses to extradite former Georgian defense minister

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Davit Kezerashvili was Georgia’s defense minister during the 2008 war with Russia over a breakaway territory. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–France has refused to extradite former Defense Minister Davit Kezerashvili to Georgia.

Kezerashvili is charged with acquiring a large amount of money and for receiving a bribe while he was minister.

He is also implicated in the Imedi TV case,

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Georgia: 15% rise in January's foreign trade confirmed

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Used cars for sale at Rustavi car market near Tbilisi. (rustavi.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s foreign trade turnover was USD 761 million in January 2014 according to precise data published by Georgia’s National Statistics Department, GeoStat. This is 15 percent more than in 2013.

Export was USD 224 million, which is 14 percent

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John Kerry to visit Georgia in spring

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US Secretary of State John Kerry next to his Georgian counterpart, Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze. (Photo published by the Georgian government.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit Georgia in spring 2014.

Kerry said after a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili on Wednesday that he is looking forward to coming to Georgia and that the trip might take place in spring.

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Georgian president meets locals near contested border

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President of Georgia, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Wednesday met people who live close to the de facto border near the town Kareli. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili says he hopes that the barbed wire which Russian soldiers are installing at the so-called border with two breakaway territories will eventually be sent away peacefully as scrap metal.

Margvelashvili

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Bacho Akhalaia's lawyer released on bail

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Giorgi Oniani. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Tbilisi City Court has released the lawyer of a former defense minister against a 20 000 lari (USD 12 000) bail.

Goga Oniani, a former high police official during Saakashvili who now is a lawyer representing the ex-minister Bacho Akhalaia, is charged

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Russia resumes building of South Ossetia border fences

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Razor wire is one of the measures Russian border guards are using to enforce the de facto border. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Russian soldiers have resumed the installation of warning signs and barbed wire at villages near the border with the breakaway region South Ossetia.

A sign warning about the de facto border was installed in the village Ghogheti near Kareli on Tuesday.

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