Monday, May 4, 2026

Access to cemetery discussed at SO border meeting

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The border meeting as usual took place in a tent at Ergneti. (EUMM.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The parties in the 2008 Russia-Georgia war Monday discussed the installation of warning signs and fences in the villages Ghogheti and Bershueti on the border to the breakaway region South Ossetia.

This was the 40th meeting of the Incident Prevention

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Snow storm causes electricity blackout in Georgia

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The snow storm has caused a power blackout affecting 155 000 households. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–155 000 households are left without electricity in Georgia, according to the Energy Ministry.

Deputy Energy Minister Irakli Khmaladze said at a briefing that the bad weather has created problems mainly in the regions in the west of Georgia, and that the damage is caused by snow and blizzard.

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Supporters of Ukraine's protesters gathered in Tbilisi

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Georgians have been gathering every day at the same place since the protests started in Ukraine. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Supporters of the protesters in Ukraine gathered Sunday in Tbilisi to support a mass mobilization in the Ukrainian capital.

The gathering outside the former parliament building started at 14:00, the same time as the demonstration in Ukraine.

Georgians

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NGOs call for new impact assessment of gigantic power dam

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A gigantic planned hydro power station has brought environmentalists out in the streets in Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Georgia ask the government for answers about the construction of Khudoni hydro power station. There are many questions regarding environmental and social issues.

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and an

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Prison Ministry asks inmates to end hunger strike

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Nana Kakabadze from the organization Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prison Ministry in Georgia Saturday called on prisoners to put an end to a hunger strike that has been joined by 146 prisoners all across Georgia.

In Prison No 6 in Rustavi, 20 km away from the capital, about a hundred

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Saakashvili addressed Ukrainian pro-EU demonstrators

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Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili on Saturday addressed the protesters gathered in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.

His speech to the movement which started two weeks ago, when President Viktor Yanukovich refused to sign an Association Agreement with the

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Increasing discrimination of religious minorities in Georgia

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A Jehova’s Witnesses book stand on Freedom Square, Tbilisi. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A human rights group claims there has been an increase in discrimination of religious minorities in Georgia in 2013.

On November 15, Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Kingdom Hall, located in Upper Etseri, Samegrelo, West Georgia, was shot at twice.

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