Thursday, April 2, 2026

Füle hopeful about Georgia getting association agreement

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EU Commissioner Štefan Füle (left) and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–EU Commissioner Štefan Füle is hopeful about Georgia’s chances of signing an association agreement with the EU at the Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November.

Füle is visiting Georgia and today met with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili

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UNM lawmaker may face 11 years in jail for ponzi scheme

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Rusudan Kervalishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A former member of parliament from the National Movement and her sister are accused of fraud in connection with a construction company they own and if convicted may face up to 11 years in jail.

Thursday they were summoned to the Prosecutor’s Office

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Georgia has relocated Afghanistan soldiers

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Defense Minister Irakli Alasania. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Irakli Alasania says Georgian soldiers in Afghanistan have relocated to a safer place after the last attack on one of their bases, which caused the death of seven soldiers.

However, the investigation into the Taliban threat video,

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Russian Duma members in Tbilisi — how unusual is it?

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Member of Parliament Akaki Minashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–A duel of words has broken out in Tbilisi after members of the Russian Duma turned up at a football match between Dinamo Tbilisi and Dinamo Moscow.

The friendship match on July 7 is the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union that the two

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EU enlargement commissioner continues Georgia tour

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Štefan Füle (left), European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, and President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. (Photo published on Saakashvili’s Facebook page.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy, is in Georgia and has met with the president and members of the parliamentary opposition.

After meeting with President Mikheil Saakshvili, the EU’s enlargement

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Protest against tree-cutting in Tbilisi

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Campaigners say they have gathered more than five thousand signatures against the clearing of trees to build a complex of apartment blocks. They demand that the area be made a recreational zone. (Palitra TV.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–More than 40 healthy trees were cut at the former psychiatric clinic in Tbilisi on Monday. Youth and locals rallied outside, demanding a stop to the tree-cutting.

Rally participants brought posters which read ‘Don’t cut’ and ‘Tbilisi City Hall is an enemy

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