Saturday, July 4, 2026

What Georgia can expect from the Munich Security Conference

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Photo published on the Munich Security Conference website.

TBILISI, DFWatch–When the annual Munich Security Conference opens in a few days, it will be the first time Georgia’s delegation is headed by the prime minister and not the president.

The reason for the change is partly that a constitutional amendment came into force

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Video shows Merabishvili promising reward for 'two corpses'

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The video shows Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili instructing soldiers after a mutiny at a tank battalion base near Tbilisi in 2009. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–There may be added new charges against former Prime Minister and Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili, according to the head of parliament’s defense and security committee.

Wednesday, a 4-minute long video was posted on Youtube,

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Villagers block road to stop hydro power dam

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People from Khaishi on Wednesday blocked a road to prevent surveying work for the gigantic Khudoni hydro power dam. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–People from the Svaneti mountain village Khaishi Wednesday demonstrated against the construction of a gigantic hydro power dam that will wipe out their community.

Demonstrators blocked the road to Jvari-Mestia with stones to interrupt land surveying

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Fog caused delays and cancelations at Tbilisi airport

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An Istanbul-Tbilisi flight was cancelled, and a plane already in the air returned to Istanbul. Several other flights were delayed today. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Four flights were delayed at Tbilisi airport on Wednesday due to fog.

A flight to Istanbul was delayed several hours. A plane arriving from Warsaw was unable to land at Tbilisi airport and instead landed in Kutaisi, Georgia’s second largest city.

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Witness tells of humiliating treatment on May 26, 2011

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Tbilisi City Court heard further witnesses in a trial about the brutal dispersal of demonstrators in Tbilisi on May 26, 2011. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Four more witnesses were heard on Tuesday in a trial about the violent police dispersal on May 26, 2011.

The witnesses were Zaza Papuashvili, Soso Jachvliani and Luka Kurtanidze, who represent the People’s Assembly, and Beka Javakhadze from the

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Parliament again fails to fill Public Broadcaster board

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Georgian Public Broadcaster is still without a functioning supervisory board. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Parliament in Georgia has again failed to approve new board members for the Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB). Groups claim this shows there is a lack of will to free the broadcaster from political influence.

January 23, parliament approved only one

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