Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Breakdown in talks between Georgia and breakaway region

The head of the EU observers in Georgia is a persona non grata in Abkhazia. The breakaway region’s leadership thinks he should have investigated an alleged build-up of paramilitaries in Western Georgia. (Illustration photo. EU.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The de facto foreign ministry of Georgia’s breakaway region Abkhazia has declared the head of the EU observers a persona non grata.

As a consequence, the ministry canceled the 36th planned meeting of the incident prevention mechanisms on Tuesday.

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Georgia's interior minister must explain warning against 2008 war

Interior minister Vano Merabishvili must come to parliament today to explain what happened in late 2006, when an influential businessman says he warned Merabishvili against getting the country entangled in a war.

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s interior minister, Vano Merabishvili, must today answer a question in parliament about a warning he received a year and a half before the war with Russia in August 2008.

The billionaire who says he made the warning is now building an opposition

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Secrecy law criticized by groups in Georgia

Levan Avaliani (left), Institute for Development of Freedom of Information; Eka Gigauri, Transparency International Georgia; and Tamar Chugoshvili (right), Georgian Young Lawyer's Association. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Two groups in Georgia want to change a new secrecy law which they say restricts access to public information.

Georgian Young Lawyers Association (GYLA), Transparency International Georgia and Institute for Development of Freedom of Information

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Georgian media to be scrutinized ahead of important election

Philip Dimitrov, head of EU's delegation to Georgia. (Photo: Mari Nikuradze.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – The European Union and United Nations Development Program is starting a new round of media monitoring in Georgia for the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections in 2012 and 2013.

All kinds of media outlets will be monitored, including TV, radio,

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Sixteenth Georgian soldier dies in Afghanistan

Georgia has up to 950 soldiers in Afghanistan. (IPN.)

TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s Defense Ministry informs that another soldier has died in Afghanistan, bringing the total number of servicemen lost there to sixteen.

Valerian Khujadze was serving in the 31st Battalion in the volatile Helmand province. The incident happened on

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