Monday, April 6, 2026

Georgian parliament speaker visits Romania and Hungary

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Georgian Speaker of Parliament, Davit Usupashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–On Monday, Georgia’s speaker of parliament begins on a five day tour of Romania and Hungary.

Speaker Davit Usupashvili will arrive in Romania on February 10 and hold meetings with the speaker of Romania’s senate and parliament, as well as with

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Energy minister attacks ombudsman over hydro power dam

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Energy Minister Kakhi Kaladze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Energy Minister Friday lashed out against the public defender and accused him of lying about not wanting to meet the population in a mountain valley poised to be flooded by a giantic hydro power dam.

The Khudoni hydro power project will

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Georgia adds guitar to consumer basket

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Georgia’s National Statistics Department has updated the list of items used to measure consumer prices. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–11 new products including a guitar have been added to Georgia’s consumer basket, and four products were removed from the list.

The consumer basket is a theoretical collection of items used to define the consumer price index or inflation rate

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NATO ambassadors encourage new Georgian government

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Georgian PM Irakli Gharibashvili (left), NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen and State Minister for Euro-Integration Alexi Petriashvili. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The new Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili says NATO ambassadors gave him positive signals at Wednesday’s meeting of the NATO-Georgia commission in Brussels.

Gharibashvili said the ambassadors told him the new government has strengthened

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