Monday, December 29, 2025

Friendly talks between Rubin and Ivanishvili

Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili (left) met Eric Rubin, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for EU and Eurasian Affairs, Tuesday. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Eric Rubin, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for EU and Eurasian Affairs, held a meeting with Georgia’s Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday.

At the meeting the parties spoke about US-Georgian relations, expressing hope to further

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New investigation into death of Georgian PM

Most Georgians do not think they have been told the truth about the death of Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania in 2005. (DFWatch photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — Investigators in Georgia have reopened the case of the death of a former prime minister, according to his brother.

Goga Zhvania, brother of Zurab Zhvania, who served as Saakashvili’s first prime minister from 2004 to 2005, yesterday evening

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Ashton urges Saakashvili and Ivanishvili to work constructively

Georgia's Foreign Affairs Minister Maia Panjikidze (left), President Mikheil Saakashvili, and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton (right) met in Tbilisi Monday. (Photo published by the president.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on Monday met with Prime Minister and President.

Briefing the media at Sheraton Metekhi Hotel, Catherine Ashton said she arrived to congratulate both Prime Minister and

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Stalin monument restored in Georgia

The statue of Josef Stalin in his hometown Gori, in west Georgia, was taken down in 2010, and might also be brought back up. (Radio Tavisupleba.)

TBILISI, DFWatch — A statue of Joseph Stalin in a town east in Georgia which was dismantled in 2011 has been restored.

According to Information Center of Kakheti, locals Sunday morning discovered the restored Stalin statue in Akhmeta. The monument of the Soviet

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