Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Georgian sailors returning home

The Georgian crew members of the Maria del Carmen 2 are returning home. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The twelve Georgian sailors who have been adrift on a ship abandoned by its owner off the coast of Panama are returning home.

The sailors aboard the Maria del Carmen 2, sailing under a Nigerian flag, were rescued by staff at the Georgian embassy

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Ivanishvili to ask for quota system for Kars-Akhalkalaki

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is concerned that a new railway to Turkey will impact the Georgian economy by diverting cargo away from the Black Sea ports Poti and Batumi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili is considering proposing a quota system for sharing cargo load between the existing railway through Georgia and a new railway under construction which will bypass Georgia’s Black Sea ports Poti and Batumi.

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Georgia cuts electricity price by a quarter

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili unwrapped a surprise present to Georgians as the winter gets colder: A 25 % price cut on electricity from January 1, 2013. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili promises that electricity prices will be reduced by around 25 percent from January 1, 2013.

As winter has arrived in Georgia, Ivanishvili brought good news to a press conference Monday at Sheraton

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Georgia's Interior Ministry auctions off luxury cars

Black shiny cars has been the trademark of Georgia's Interior Ministry. (Police.ge.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Georgia’s Interior Ministry has decided to put its luxurious cars up for auction.

The new leadership at the ministry has prepared around 50 cars for sale, and models range from Range Rover, Range Rover Sport and Range Rover Vogue, to BMW

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Five policemen dismissed in one of Georgia's controversial cases

Tengiz Gunava, a former Interior Ministry employee, was detained twice on different charges. The five policemen who detained him the first time, on charges of using drugs and carrying an illegal gun, have now been fired. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Five policemen who were involved in one of the controversial cases against officials in Georgia have been dismissed.

The five were based at the Central Criminal Police Department and carried out the first detention of Tengiz Gunava, a former

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Saakashvili addresses party, delegates return to parliament

President Mikheil Saakashvili addressing party activists at Expo Georgia in Tbilisi December 23, 2012. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The National Movement party of President Mikheil Saakashvili will return to parliament on Monday.

This became clear at a party conference Sunday. The president addressed his party’s activists and tried to fire them up as they are

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'Justice Minister arranged fake torture video to defuse scandal'

This was the first video showing prisoner mistreatment published September 18, 2012. The Prosecutor's Office in Georgia says Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili had it staged and published in order to undermine the real videos in the possession of a former prisoner guard who had fled to Europe and was preparing to go public with them. (Screen grab.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into one of the prison torture videos that shook the country two weeks before the 2012 parliamentary election.

The first of six videos was published in the morning of September 18,

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