Wednesday, January 14, 2026

22 families cut off by flooding in Georgia's Guria region

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The flood struck the village Ureki in the middle of the tourist season. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–22 families are cut off from the outside world due to flood in the village Chanchati, in Georgia’s western Guria region.

Gulnara Chichua, government trustee in the village, told journalists that the flood also has affected other villages in Guria,

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Georgian beach resort on the Black Sea hit by flood

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The flood water was one meter high and rising, locals said Sunday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian Black Sea resort Ureki was flooded after heavy rain on Sunday. Part of the population is leaving the place and requesting help from the government.

Tens of houses were flooded, and a landslide has blocked the roads.

Kote Sharashenidze,

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Okruashvili detained at Nice airport after scuffle

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Irakli Okruashvili in Tbilisi, January 2013. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former defense minister Irakli Okruashvili was Saturday briefly detained by French police after a scuffle with another Georgian politician, former MP Merab Samadashvili.

The scuffle took place at Nice airport. Okruashvili was later released by airport police.

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Ex prison minister questioned about torture, claims didn't know

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“Of course I didn’t know,” Khatuna Kalmakhelidze said on Friday. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Prosecutor’s Office in Georgia Friday summoned the former prison and defense ministers to question them about the torture in the prisons during the Saakashvili regime.

According to the Prosecutor’s Office, it has found, after a number

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OSCE election observers will arrive in Georgia Sept 16

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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maia Panjikidze. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–OSCE’s long term observers for the upcoming presidential election will arrive in Georgia on September 16.

Maia Panjikidze, Foreign Affairs Minister, on Friday told journalists that Georgia has received a positive response from the NATO Parliamentary

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TSU elects former economy minister as new rector

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Newly elected TSU rector Vladimer Papava (left) and his predecessor Aleksandre Kvitashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Vladimer Papava, an economics professor who was economy minister during President Shevardnadze in the 1990s, has been elected as rector of Tbilisi State University.

Papava was supported by ten of the board’s 12 members, the remaining two voted for Irma

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